posted 10-31- 08:45 AM               

I'm slowly getting back into things again now and have started early but very very promising work on terrains again (completely from scratch in Max) so hopefully in the next couple of months with the great help of Diego and WTG we can start pumping out terrains fairly quickly, initially inland terrain with the work I've done, but hopefully later also with water (yep that old problem of tile material properties that I think I've mostly cracked now).

As I'm still not feeling up to my usual none stop 16 hours a days OPS work things will initially move slowly since I'm not motivated enough right now to push myself like that again learning, struggling and bungeling my way through things I need to know, but hey, as I get back into it hopefully the speed will pick up again.

So, I'm really sorry if anyone feels in anyway let down by not getting and replys from mails they have sent me, I know you'll all understand but I do feel bad about that, especially you Snickers, and really sorry for any work I said I'd do and just haven't even looked at yet, plus all the stuff I've got on the shelf that still needs finishing off. There's some great work being done I see from the boards and I'll damn well make sure I'm a part of it again.. LOL

Thanks guys for bearing with me.

~Nat~

posted 10-31- 10:16 AM               

Just so you guys can see what I'm upto now, I just did this quick terrain, it's from my old map so you can ignore the detail, it was used purely for shape and to create the terrain from, it still needs chopping up and the parts then centralising on the X,Y axis but you can get an idea, building terrain could turn out to be much easier than we thought with Max.

If anyone knows of a command in Max 3.1 that cetralises an object on the X,Y axis (not Z, darent alter the depth of the parts) then please let me know asap. Thanks guys

posted 10-31- 01:51 PM               

Werner

P.S. Have you seen the dockyard at AF yet? It's practically "The Nat Show". lol

posted 10-31- 01:53 PM               

You can make planes and ships with AC3D, and it is $40

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WWI in SDOE!

posted 10-31- 03:28 PM               

That is "a" singapore terrain, I found a tutorial on creating terrains and used the singapore texture (basic one) to try it out, so that pic is of a 40x40 mile terrain tile mapped with a 512x512 texture, the elevations are to high, but like that it shows detail a little better for the pic. What I have to do now is break it up into the individual tiles, optimise the water tiles, and centre all of them on the home grid at 0,0, then I can export them and build a terrain, but once I get this method of to a tea it will mena that all you need to build a terrain is a correctly scaled map of the area you want to build. I'm hoping there is a way to cut up the large single tile into 20x20 smaller tiles without having to do it all by hand, but I will if I have to.

Lemsko, thanks for the tip, there's a good chance I can align to the main tile using that method, I'll try it out