Adraax: Klyro's City Project

[Arangol]

Side A! Because of the cool waterfall place !
I have a picture with a few places that are important to change:


Hope you do the same way Minetus
Anyone can add to my picture what they like to have in the landscape.

[minetus]

arangol.. thats just half of the map..

one important thing you got to have in mind is, dont move the points that join with the other half, this is very important they must be in their place to be able to join back again without screwing the map up.

another thing is you should read the last 3 or 4 pages of posts alot of important stuff you missed..
take this as reference: http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=23402.msg257610#msg257610 and read posts from there on.

edit: by the way distance between points is around 10m that widen place you wanted is actually under water 

edit2:

1: this needs to be smother and fix some of its mass its curved and lines crossing
2: in blue: this is what i changed, note this is not a waterfall 
3: green is river water, here is a waterfall.

lowest point in sea bottom is at -200 meters
water level at +30m, (i should had changed this before)

just some info 

[Dahoma]

I noticed this post today, and it inspired me to go and learn to use Blender...not only is it difficult  but it is also frustrating  And once I get it i'll be king  and...sooner or later I hope to help out with this city...before it's done...we'll see how fast I can get this going. But so far I think this is the greatest idea in all of PlaneShift...because I have a klyros and this place would be kick a$$

[rast]

looking good so far

i can't really contribute to the landscape so i am currently concentrating on plants,trees,giant mushrooms,etc.
some quick dead (or alive but in a swamp and have lost there leaves) trees:


i am doing some more right now (probably small bushes/mushrooms ) after i have textured these.

btw:153 polys for each tree,34 for each stump

edit:
textured (as amazing as it seems for me ):




srry about how dark the images are

[Inca Sator]

Rast, you are still modeling objects expressing only their primary properties. If it is a tree then it got to have vertical trunk and curved brunches... - this is toooo simple. Please, return a little back in this thread, find swamp pictures with swamp trees. I pay attention of modelers on these trees.. They have a huge roots/  trunk has very big basement. About polycount: please check trees in game you are played. No need in such number of brunches, apply to tree model planar objects for alpha-textures - leaves, withered grass .(in this case one planar model will be consists of two same planar objects with different normals...)
Analyze this.

p.s. hmm, do you know, guys, that bottom polygons of model must be deleted , cause players will never see them in normal game (without bugs)?

[rast]

i see..... ish
i will research a bit more next time
just 1 thing, i sort of self taught myself blender so i'm not great with the technical terms. what are "planar objects" srry

[minetus]

planar object = a plane or a plane of view, like the top square face of a cube, as in a 2d square thin like paper a planar object i gived the square as a example it can have any form tho

[Arangol]

edit2:

1: this needs to be smother and fix some of its mass its curved and lines crossing
2: in blue: this is what i changed, note this is not a waterfall 
3: green is river water, here is a waterfall.

lowest point in sea bottom is at -200 meters
water level at +30m, (i should had changed this before)

just some info 

1. Working on it.
2 Eh, so you fixed before or after you gave me half of the map?
3. Ok.
Ok about the water, I'll leave it up to you to position it so it will be good.
And about the points, do you think I'm stupid (  )
Hmm, Ok I was away at that time when those posts came.
So it this the image that is our "plan":

[minetus]

no i dont tink your stupid...
i was just sharing info that could be usefull... since i edited it ... just explaining what i had in mind, but if you want to change it go ahead..

i edited it before giving you the map..

yes that image should be used has reference

[rast]

leaves and shape any better?

[Arangol]

Much better, Rast! You're really making some progress! Try to add some more detail to the trunk so it would look more real.
Minetus, I'll try to make the basic-bridge-thing for the city and connect it to the main-land.
And btw, anyone here good at texturing landscapes, cause I suck on texturing landscapes ( I'm much better at characters and buildings )?

[rast]

thanks arangol.
here is a newer tree which could sit half submerged in water:


based on:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~sbryce/cyptrees.JPG

[Arangol]

I've been working on the bridge that connects the ciy with the mainland. Here's the pic:

It's still in early stages and I have to make the pillars more "real".
Then I have to add some stairs ascending from the pillars and the lighthouse on the great bridge + the small bridges for the city. Then it's mostly up to you to add the buildings. 

[rast]

if you want i will attempt to concept and model a lighthouse arangol to keep me busy

[Arangol]

Puh great relief, I don't have an idea what Klyros lighthouses look like  !
I've worked some more:


Got the main stairs, what about making spiral stairs instead of those?
The platform should have legs but I don't think you can see them on the pic.
And if the platform is under water, inform me please, think of all the klyror who would just walk down the stairs and then notice that there wasn't amy platorm.