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) :

http://i.imgur.com/7OX7C0J.png

The harbour :

http://i.imgur.com/kI6EhJz.png

Thank you very much for this tutorial ! :up: 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."

Sure, my bad for not telling you that you had to triangulate faces before exporting the model. :doh:
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 :yep:


Never had this message before :hmmm:
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

Okay, I got it :up:

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 :03:

So, here are the different parts to create :

http://i.imgur.com/VNIhwH0.png

:up:

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

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

http://i.imgur.com/JxmfTiX.png

:Kaleun_Applaud:

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 :up:

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

http://i.imgur.com/WZlXmgf.png

Brilliant! :yeah:

I have just discovered it lol :O:

So you do with us :subsim:

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 ! :doh:

Could you remind me how to make a symetrical dock ? :hmmm:

http://i.imgur.com/qDK2JrL.png

WIP ...
 

U-bunkers, based on HanSolo's superpens.

http://i.imgur.com/Zu17V2V.png

http://i.imgur.com/y3KjHMo.jpg