wallacet's WIP's

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Your buildings look good but low density buildings should NEVER have over 110 triangles in the LOD. The modders at XL Nation showed me how to make a LOD model from scratch and how to manually bake textures from the highest quality model onto the simplest LOD model (Cities XL has 4 models and strict limits on triangle counts for importing models, your houses would be rejected by the import program). "Optimize" only goes so far (L1 to L2 to L3, with further optimization getting most models down from 4,000 to 1,000 triangles and a fresh new model to get 100 triangles or lower).

[wallacet 336]

On 3/21/2016 at 8:00 PM, OcramsRzr said:

Your buildings look good but low density buildings should NEVER have over 110 triangles in the LOD. The modders at XL Nation showed me how to make a LOD model from scratch and how to manually bake textures from the highest quality model onto the simplest LOD model (Cities XL has 4 models and strict limits on triangle counts for importing models, your houses would be rejected by the import program). "Optimize" only goes so far (L1 to L2 to L3, with further optimization getting most models down from 4,000 to 1,000 triangles and a fresh new model to get 100 triangles or lower).

The largereason LOD poly count is a byproduct of exporting from work to home modeling...most of those tris are in the roof. I can delete the faces and remodel as planes of course, that will just take a little extra time. 

[wallacet 336]

On 3/20/2016 at 9:13 AM, Matthias King said:

Looking nice, and 3.3 megs is very reasonable. Can I suggest making the driveway extend all the way out to meet the sidewalk?

Sorry about the delay on this guys....between working and buying a house, I have no time.

How would you suggest making the driveway extend to the sidewalk? The driveway is modeled in, just a regular plane object, so I'm assuming there's another way. Any suggestions?

[Macronomicus 128]

wow I love these! They remind me a lot of my hometown Orlando Fl, we had a lot beautiful old neighborhoods with red brick streets and giant oak trees everywhere.

[Matthias King 348]

6 hours ago, wallacet said:

Sorry about the delay on this guys....between working and buying a house, I have no time.

How would you suggest making the driveway extend to the sidewalk? The driveway is modeled in, just a regular plane object, so I'm assuming there's another way. Any suggestions?

I didn't realize that. It's just that it doesn't reach the sidewalk, so it looks a little odd, having a strip of grass through the front part of the driveway.

If it's modeled in I'm not sure what you could do. There are some sidewalk/driveway tile props that might work. You'd have to try them out and see.