Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:51 pm Post subject:
Power Plant Issue
Hey guys. As you may know, I'm working with Scipción in his mod, right now I'm working in the Soviets buildings (which may not really look like the soviets from RA2, but that's one of our main objectives here).
I'm remaking the soviets powerplant since it was not big enough to be aproved, I made a new one which doesn't look really bad, but since it had the same orientation as my other buildings I made it some changes, now I don't know which one is better, so I'm asking you guys.
Note that I will take any suggestions you guys might give me, but please, the shape is the only thing I care right now. I can't touch the textures much until I have all the buildings ready.
I love the olive colour, something I really haven't seen done. The second one looks really nice but to me they seem like standard and advanced versions of the same power plant. QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:21 pm Post subject:
It could very well work as an upgrade IMO. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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am i the only one who doesn't sees any image here?
Please attach pictures to this forum, not some external crap photobucket.
even after quoting the post and copying the photobucket links in them, only the 2nd worked.
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:03 pm Post subject:
Apparently.
And Snipping Tool bugs out again - yay.
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_________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
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WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more... QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Location: Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:08 pm Post subject:
First one looks more like it fits a 3x3 then the second one. Besides that, I agree with Bolt that the colours scheme is unique but fitting, and that the second one looks more like an upgrade / advanced variant of the former. QUICK_EDIT
Thanks, but it seems I was not able to show what the problem truly was.
Please take a look at this new Image, all the buildings look at the same direction, the change I made to the power plant was meant to fix that. Between choosing to turn the barracks, (the dark green building that is 2x3) or the powerplant, I decided to edit the powerplant in a way that the symmetry axis looks changed to the player's eye, that way I can remove that extrange feeling without much effort, now, the question is... Do I keep the old powerplant and change something else, or I just use the second one?
About the colours, all the Soviet buildings will have a similar tone, that's why I'm only focusing on the shape right now, I don't have much to think about the textures, it's just trial and error on every building until they look perfect.
Finally, about the photobucket glitch, was it me the one that doesn't know how to use the forum, or photobucket has a history of not working properly?
^^that
and i would make them even less left/right mirrored, bye removing one of the remap cylinder things or moving a smokestack.
Once you know they are all mirrored along the \ axis, it is hard to not notice that anymore and takes away a bit of their nice design. A bit more asymmetry would be indeed nice.
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Finally, about the photobucket glitch, was it me the one that doesn't know how to use the forum, or photobucket has a history of not working properly?
Seems only my browser was unable to show the images, since everyone else saw them fine.
Though i prefer forum attachments over any external filehoster anyway, since the external ones delete files and render the topic from then on useless without the images.
During your SHP conversion, your buildings seem to have gotten some of the glowing colors assigned (see the bright pixel in the shadowed areas). You should fix your palette that you use for the conversion and remove the glowing color range, so the conversion tool (SHP Builder or XCC Mixer) can't mix them up anymore with normal colors. _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
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Power Plant Issue
