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Posted by Natus on Fri May 6th at 12:47am 2005

i found some funny features in xsi, and then i made these crappy things, and textured them in a crappy texture that i made earlier.
so what do you think :P
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/natus/artkolondd.jpg

notice the smooth edges smiley
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Posted by Orpheus on Fri May 6th at 12:51am 2005

Its a start. That counts for something.

I wanna see some models of items every map needs. Fire hydrants, Phone booths, Portapotties.. I wanna see power poles with damned transformers on them. So many city maps are missing the items overlooked. smiley

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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri May 6th at 12:53am 2005

Hey for some reason I like them! If you made a few modifications to the cylinder on the left I can imagine it being a pretty snazzy energy core type thing.

Good job anyway. Was it very hard to get started?
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Posted by fishy on Fri May 6th at 1:15am 2005

well done for making the effort to get that far with it. remember, mighty oaks from little acorns grow, and all that jazz. keep it up, mate.

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Posted by OtZman on Fri May 6th at 9:28am 2005

Good for a start.

How's the polygon count? Also, have you ported them to usable HL2 .mdl files? Is it easy to do with XSI?

Keep the good work up. smiley
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Posted by Natus on Fri May 6th at 3:56pm 2005

getting started wasnt really that hard, i tried modeling in milkshape before, but this is completely different from milkshape, and no i did not export it for hl2 usage, because...i dont know how to do it smiley
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Posted by Natus on Sat May 7th at 6:16pm 2005

ok hers some more stuff, same crappy texture as before, maybe i can compile it and use it as some kind of static prop, just need a new texture, is there a way to convert the .vmt files to .jpg or .tga?
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Posted by ReNo on Sat May 7th at 8:06pm 2005

You convert the VTF (valve texture format) files, not VMT (valve materials) files. There are plenty of apps out there that will let you do this, and you should even have one in your sourcesdk/bin folder named VTF2TGA.exe.

Looks like you are getting to grips with the modelling, but try and vary the depth of your objects rather than having them the same thickness all the way up. Make use of all 3 dimensions smiley
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Posted by Natus on Sat May 7th at 8:45pm 2005

ehm, how do i use it, dropping the .vtf on it doesn't seem to work.

/me is off to model an evil big rifle thing xD
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Posted by ReNo on Sat May 7th at 8:50pm 2005

I've no idea how to use it I'm afraid, I've always used a third part app to do it for me. I use VTFTool, available here...

http://www.wunderboy.org/3d_games/utils/sourcetools.php
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Posted by OtZman on Sat May 7th at 10:01pm 2005

Here's a thread on how to use vtf2tga.exe:

http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=viewthread&b=4990&t=327,1114462831,17406&s=0&id=842713#2


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Posted by Myrk- on Wed May 11th at 9:15pm 2005

? quoting Orpheus
Its a start. That counts for something.

I wanna see some models of items every map needs. Fire hydrants, Phone booths, Portapotties.. I wanna see power poles with damned transformers on them. So many city maps are missing the items overlooked.

I wanna see more props for stuff that doesn't make old people die of boredom... HL2 theme is boring and stale, need more custom stuff of wierd themes!

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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed May 11th at 9:25pm 2005

I wish there was a prop request page. And a texture request page.

And I wish there were more modellers and texture artists around.

And, while I'm at it I wish I had a pony. :
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Posted by Natus on Tue May 17th at 12:20pm 2005

a pony eh?
/me tryes to model a pony




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Posted by Natus on Tue May 17th at 12:28pm 2005

here ya go a pony



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Posted by OtZman on Tue May 17th at 2:59pm 2005

Nice, only a skin missing there. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Isn't there a way to get the full version of XSI for people that bought HL2, or is it just something I've come up with in my twisted mind?



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Posted by Natus on Tue May 17th at 3:08pm 2005

i dont think you can get the full version, but if you register (free) and download the addon you can save your work and export to .smd and stuff.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue May 17th at 4:14pm 2005

? quoting NatUS:
here ya go a pony


Hahaha awesome!




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Posted by French Toast on Tue May 17th at 8:45pm 2005

To NatUS;
You can get XSI 4.2 free from their website. Once you have the program, itmay ask for a key. You must download the Valve addon. Once you have that installed, you can export correctly and save your work, however, renders will have "XSI DEMO" in big letters all over them, this is why Softimage is a bunch of whores. So your stuff looks bad with all that crap over it.

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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue May 17th at 9:01pm 2005

So if XSI isn't a viable option, what should a beginning modeller use?





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