Help with making shp Structures!!!!

raAdic · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 14 May 2009

Can anyone please tell me the exact details on how to make shp structures and how to place them into the game (ra2)? I'm planning to make a structure from a voxel. Because I want to create new structures...

Thanks!!

Lexa

raAdic wrote:

I'm planning to make a structure from a voxel.

Is that possible? VXL -> SHP?

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

well, you can just take a screen shot/render of it in the right angle, and then convert that image to .shp.

Have you checked the tutorials?

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raAdic · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 14 May 2009

Well, yes. But how can I get the right size of the structure? Also, when viewed in a voxel viewer, it's in the wrong angle. What shall I do?

Lt Albrecht · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:43 am Post subject:

view>views>ingame TS/RA2

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raAdic · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 14 May 2009

Thanks. I have another question...

I saw many new structures for ra2. I just wanna know where are they made...

Orac · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:04 am Post subject:

Many are made using such programs as Autodesk's 3Ds Max. There is, IIRC, a free trial version.

MT · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:12 am Post subject:

Yes, and if you don't want a trial, you can look into the many free 3d modellers.

I recommend to you Blender, an Open Source modeller with a customizable UI.

It is difficult to learn at first however, almost anyone will tell you that, even I know from experience. This only lasts a little while, with Wikipedia's Blender 3D: Noob to Pro, and a bit of practice you can quickly get used to Blender and it's UI.

raAdic · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 14 May 2009

Thanks for your suggestions. But I decided to use Google Sketchup instead because it is easier to use and requires minimal disk space.

But now I have another problem. I need help!!!

I created my own oil derrick and I imported the image to shp builder (Sketchup has an Iso view) but the structure is in the wrong angle (see photo). The lower-left part is fine but the lower-right and the upper-right part (in red) is not aligned well to the shp builder grid. What shall I do!!???

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MT · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:12 am Post subject:

The game does not use an isometric view. It uses a dimetric view.

A rough explanation is that the angle the camera has makes it so that every pixel vertically is about 2 pixels horizontally.

The camera angle:

Because you are using Sketchup, I can't really help with lighting or scale problems, but here is some cake #Tongue

(not mentioned, but the shadows may turn out messed)
(use Blender! the cake is a lie!)

Blade · Cyborg Commando **Joined**: 23 Dec 2003

Just use blender, I've already gone to the trouble of making a blend file that has more or less the correct angles as well as a somewhat automated process for doing AA images that don't AA to background if you want it, but first you need to get the basics of the interface down.

raAdic · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 14 May 2009

Thanks, I already got it. And its doing fine.

Well I have ANOTHER question (sorry for so many questions, because I'm just a beginner...):
I created my own prism tower. I made the body and the head separately (the tower head is the active animaton). I compiled the two shps in art.ini. But when I start the game, the head is in the wrong position!! Please see the photo...

In art.ini, the code of the activeanim z position, I put 83.
What shall I do???

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4StarGeneral · General **Joined**: 14 Sep 2006 **Location**: Limbo

Change the placement in the actual shp file so that it lines up.

Or I believe...

TurretAnimZAdjust=-100 excerpt from Rules.ini, even though it doesn't have a turret, it counts ActiveAnim as one.

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Blade · Cyborg Commando **Joined**: 23 Dec 2003

Z adjust affects what layer toward the viewer the image is IIRC, you need to do an X and Y offset adjust to adjust the relative position they are displayed in.