Well I'm making a map at the moment, I don't have much just one picture, and I also need help on how to get arches on the bridge underneath it, like the left the right and in the middle. so help is appriciated, and yeah I dunno what kinda map it's going to turn into, Survival/RP, I dunno give ideas, there is gonna be more, a bit further up the road/bridge will be some houses and further down the trail is gonna be a forrest maybe and a lake(it's all based on an area were I live.
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The bridge is very blocky, try adding more detail to it. :3:
Well if you read, I said I wanted to add arches underneath it, so like where the crosshair is faceing, and on the two bits on the left and the right I just don't know how to make them properly.
No, i mean by adding like details to it and not just changing a block to an arch, that still makes it blocky.
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[img]http://members.fortunecity.com/gknowles2/layout/mh/bridge_1.jpg[/img]
See how this had a curb type edge at top and hollow with supports under it.
Wow that's a NEAT looking bridge!!!
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Use the vertex manipulator to get those arches.
[QUOTE=Jacc;21775318]Wow that's a NEAT looking bridge!!![/QUOTE]
Wow that's a NEAT way to rea... oh wait nvm
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all I want to do is get the arches first before I do anything else to the bridge.
make the bridge into a brick-based transformer. You already have the legs and the miniskirt.
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Well no wonder all the old good mappers left, assholes like you not helping just trying to get the "funnies ".
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Dude if anyones an asshole it's you, don't go lashing out on other just because there telling you what to do, if you didn't want told what to do or what to fix then why make a thread in the first place.
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[QUOTE=Melon_Mapper;21775691]Well no wonder all the old good mappers left, assholes like you not helping just trying to get the "funnies ".
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no, they left because of stuff that everyone churns out. Then when someone makes something good, everyone chimes in saying its blocky, or fines a sprite that crosses the brush by .2units.
For the OP, I suggest getting a real world reference for that bridge. Ill be honest with you, to make giant brick pillars like that would be less structurally stable than what it would seem.
use google images, or use references near your house or school. or you can go with that transformers idea.
Bans ahoy!
But yes, as has been said already add some more detailed brushwork to the bridge, and post some pictures when you have some more content in it. At the moment it just looks like 3 displacements and a blocky bridge.
I first need to learn how to do an arch, hint anyone know how to or got a good tutorial.
[QUOTE=Melon_Mapper;21778204]I first need to learn how to do an arch, hint anyone know how to or got a good tutorial.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwHydUP-7Bc[/media] Skip to around 5 minutes in.
Ban's ahoy!
But I suggest you add things like cars, bushes, tree's, maby even a weapon below it.
Also add area's that have been destroyed through the apacolyps, like adding a hole in the bridge so infected can fall through and get you!
[QUOTE=minilandstan;21778471]Ban's ahoy!
But I suggest you add things like cars, bushes, tree's, maby even a weapon below it.
Also add area's that have been destroyed through the apacolyps, like adding a hole in the bridge so infected can fall through and get you![/QUOTE]
I was thinking about like haveing a big hole in it where a car crashed through with a wreck on the floor, was also a concept for a night time version too, have a car with the headlighs on and stuff to light up ther area.
Make the bridge a cinematic explosion and force the survivors to find a better way around.
Or maybe a cinematic waist-high wall that forces the survivors to find a better way around
[QUOTE=Firegod522;21778457][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwHydUP-7Bc[/media] Skip to around 5 minutes in.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for that vid I got an arch in the middle now.
OP, what tutorials, if any, have you followed?
Well I've read a few tutorials off interlopers a while ago, now I'm just getting most of it off the top of my head, but when I get lost on what I'm doing with things I quickly read a few tuts again.
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Well here's another photo of the bridge with it's arch and different texture, yes I noticed the wrong brick texture on the right, which is fixed now, but seriously what else can I add to it, I've looked at pictures of stone bridges and crap like that, they're pretty blocky nothing else to detail it kinda thing
That looks too much better. You should add something like a railing in the top of the bridge. Some graffities would be cool too.
Was thinking about graphitti, also what about some stairs that go up the grass hill and onto the bridge? hows that sound, oh and the railing, I don't think it needs one, the top of the bridge that you can see now is actually up to the waiste or stomach on the L4D2 characters, but I could add some sort of rail, just a long rail that goes all the way across to add a bit to it.
Smooothing groups
Smoothing groups?
The texture picker should have a button on there for smoothing groups. What it will do, is smooth out arches witin that group. Its something to experiment with.
also, the 3d viewport has an item in there to view smoothing groups too.
Ah I'll give that a look then, also I have another picture.
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I either need darker colour for the brighter part of the bridge or something, unless it looks fine to you guys, I'm not sure.
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