Civi Power

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

The new Civi power plant, If it's likeable, I give it.

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Mortecha · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:19 am Post subject:

Its ok, though I think there is far too many pipes and the textures look too bland imo.

Good effort though and keep practicing.

Also damage animations are a must as well....

Askhati · Jumpjet Infantry **Joined**: 22 Dec 2009

The smokestack looks PRIMITIVE, as in Dark Ages primitive. Maybe try a ribbed texture instead? Also, remaps.

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DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

Too much AA, use Catmull-Rom instead.

ZoidZilla · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 16 Apr 2008

Looking good so far, but yeah use catmull-rom, you will see the difference. I also would change the smoke-stack texture to red-bricks and make it become thinner at the top.

http://www.weact.org/Portals/7/Smokestack%20Smoking.jpg
http://www.twincitiesdailyphoto.com/2008/xcel_stpaul_smokestack.jpg

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

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ZoidZilla · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 16 Apr 2008

Yes.

Just experiment a bit with the render settings and look what happens. If you think your render looks better with a certain setting, use it.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

O.K. I'll mess around and see what works best.

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Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

soo many pipes. x___x. the building itself looks good but the external details..take away from it. Specifically Pipes and gas tanks.

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:35 pm Post subject:

Textures are bad and it needs more details/better details.

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

these textures look a bit better?

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MT · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:47 pm Post subject:

Yeah, these textures are a lot better. The shape as well. The only thing I can see that may need some improvement is in the clean lack of variety, if you could use maybe some variety in textures per side.

(Like, what I would do would be either editing the texture to make slightly dirty variations, and using that, or by using some dirt for a map to apply with 3dsmax.)

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

I usually add the Dirty look with shp builder, seems to do a pretty good job for the most part.

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DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

Hint: Apply "UVW Map" modifier to the main structure. Play with some length, width and height in it and you can see the difference.

To make the scale smaller/bigger without moving the bottom of the model in Z-axis, select all objects in your model. "Group" menu -> "Group". Click "Hierarchy" tab -> "Affect Pivot Only" and select "Move" tool and move in Z-axis to 0 or bottom of the model. Now unselect "Affect Pivot Only" and use "Scale" tool.

Connect tool is useful when you select two or more edges that are in the same poly or poly area and want to to create new edge between them.

Hope this helps you a bit. Smile

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Any and all tips and suggestions are always useful Wink

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Orac · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:02 am Post subject:

More chimneys would help.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

-press "m" and select the material of the main brick texture
-under "Maps" in the "Diffuse Color" Map click on the button to the right (it should say bitmap since it has the brick texture there)
-click now to the top right on the button "Bitmap"
-select Noise as the new map and when 3dsmax asks what to do with the old bitmap texture choose "Keep old map as sub-map"
-in the noise map you have now under Color #1 the brick bitmap texture and under Color #2 a white color
-change the white Color #2 to a dark brown
-play with the Size, High and Low Noise settings

voila, you have dirt randomly placed all over the brick texture of the 3d model and don't have to manually edit the SHP in SHP builder.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Cool schit LKO, thanks that will surely save me some time and hassle doing it thru shp builder. And thanks to everyone who has helped me this far, you guys are awsome.

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