[WIP] BREST rebuilding

Hi,

In agreement with gap and HanSolo78, I'm going to start to create a new harbour for Brest, based on the real one.

Here what it's going to look like, compared to the actual SH3 harbour (in red the current U-Boot bunker, in blue the actual one ; the small black crosses show the land squares which have to be deleted) :

The harbour :

Originally Posted by gap

... once imported into S3d it will look okay again

Thank you very much for this tutorial ! I didn't know the "Image plane" function. So, all went well, until I tried to import the object in S3D. Error message : "The file contains quads or polygons. Only triangles are supported." So I tried to triangulate the model, but now the S3D error message is : "The file has 12 uvwmap indices while the main obj-file has 36 vertex indices. This number must be equal."

[gap]

Originally Posted by Kendras

Thank you very much for this tutorial ! I didn't know the "Image plane" function. So, all went well, until I tried to import the object in S3D. Error message : "The file contains quads or polygons. Only triangles are supported." So I tried to triangulate the model...

Sure, my bad for not telling you that you had to triangulate faces before exporting the model.
The quickest/safest way to do it, is to selct the whole object in body selection mode, switch then to face selection mode, right click, and choose Tessellate => Triangulate. This way you wont miss any face

Originally Posted by Kendras

...but now the S3D error message is : "The file has 12 uvwmap indices while the main obj-file has 36 vertex indices. This number must be equal."

Never had this message before
Can you upload somewhere obj, mtl and dat files that you are working with and give me the link?

Originally Posted by gap

Never had this message before
Can you upload somewhere obj, mtl and dat files that you are working with and give me the link?

Here : http://www.mediafire.com/file/phi8zz...est_map_obj.7z

[gap]

Okay, I got it

When Wings creates an image plane, the plane is actually a flattened 6-faces polygon whose sides are so small that you dont even notice them. Those faces are not UV mapped, but S3d requires all the faces to have UV coordinates.
The quickest "fix" for your map polygon is as follows:

- select it in body selection mode, switch to face selection mode, right click, Tesselate => Untriangulate.

- Press space bar to unselect all and in face selection mode select one of the big faces (the one pointing down, whose texture is mrrored)

- Press the "F" key on your keyboard. Doing this will extend the face selection to all the faces sharing an edge with the face originally selected (i.e. to the flattened, non-UV-mapped faces encircling the map polygon). If all worked correctly, at this point you should have 5 faces selected (check it from the left corner of the top info bar).

- Unselect the lower face if you want to keep it, right click and select "Hole" to remove all the faces still selected. This should leave you with a geometry with only 1 or 2 faces.

- Select all the remaining faces, triangulate them again and export to obj file

So, here are the different parts to create :

[gap]

Originally Posted by Kendras

So, here are the different parts to create :

Please make sure not to miss post #6 in this thread

Originally Posted by gap

Okay, I got it

When Wings creates an image plane, the plane is actually a flattened 6-faces polygon whose sides are so small that you dont even notice them. Those faces are not UV mapped, but S3d requires all the faces to have UV coordinates.
The quickest "fix" for your map polygon is as follows: ....

OK, it works. Now, I have the map in S3D !

[the_frog]

Hmmm, there is always something new to learn when reading those threads. I wasn't aware of the 6-face nature of image planes. Gentlemen, you keep me well entertained

First elements to be placed ! The hard part will be to connect all elements and to correct textures ...

[gap]

Originally Posted by Kendras

OK, it works. Now, I have the map in S3D !

Originally Posted by Kendras

First elements to be placed ! The hard part will be to connect all elements and to correct textures ...

Brilliant!

Originally Posted by the_frog

Hmmm, there is always something new to learn when reading those threads. I wasn't aware of the 6-face nature of image planes.

I have just discovered it lol

Originally Posted by the_frog

Gentlemen, you keep me well entertained

So you do with us

Originally Posted by Kendras

The hard part will be to connect all elements and to correct textures ...

For example, in the harbour_kit.dat, there is a basic element which is 300x150 meters. I need 900x557 meters. The textures applied on it will be somewhat distorted !

Could you remind me how to make a symetrical dock ?

U-bunkers, based on HanSolo's superpens.