The random model thread!

a quick question again: How is Maya's free learning edition? From the Sourcewiki:

A free version of Maya called the Maya Personal Learning Edition (http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/products-services/product_details.jsp?productId=1900003) is available to all for non-commercial use. It is a feature-complete version of Maya Complete 7 with render watermarks and export restrictions. These constraints do not inhibit Source modding in any way.

What sort of watermark is it? What sort of export restrictions? If I want to put a model into source will it have MAYA FREE VERSION all over it?

Quote from skdr

It was meant to be cartoon stylish, what's wrong with the textures?

I don't know I guess I just don't really like that scratch pattern.

But I still like it overall. Make a blue one!

blue ftw!

cool looking cars skdr, the future/retro look is working on em. make a real shiny version too.

EDIT: Looks like if i preview the post, i cannot submit my post, gives me stupid errors. I can also preview occassionally only. Am i the only one to have this problem?

Anyway these are, again, for my rats-map which i attend to have 100% custom content. I changed the subject from bathroom to my own desk + some stuff around it. I'll mainly aim to do it fun to play. Just few simple models. Textures are still in the works.

Coca-cola mug, about 150 polys if i remember right.

[Blocked Image: http://swifty.hl2central.net/rats/shemaleburger.jpg]

Juice can, 50 polys

[Blocked Image: http://swifty.hl2central.net/rats/hedelmajuoma.jpg]

the juice is ment to be 12 polies right?

Well there's a cork which has like 20 polys or so, then there's these little maybe-useless parts at the top of the can, like the ones where paperboard turns over the edge so it takes 50 polys

Here's a little scaffolding thingy for my dm map

[Blocked Image: http://insurgencymod.net/team/upload/Fi…g_mino_prev.jpg]

The polycount is a bit high (3752) but this isnt going to be a big problem.

editing----

Houston we have a problem. I compiled the vmt as following but when I preview the model some weird rendering errors occur:

http://insurgencymod.net/team/upload/Fi ... _error.jpg

vmt:

VertexLitGeneric


{


 "$basetexture" "models\mino\avon_scaffolding_mino" 


"$translucent" "1"


	"$alpha" "1"


}

Should I put the alpha mapped green thing in a separate texture ?

omfg minoz, this is fucking awesome, pretty neat texturing you have there §!! sorry, but i can't help you on that one, i've never tried something like that before

Also how will you make the collision model of all this stuff ? :x

It will be way above of 25 parts

That looks sweet Mino, from first glance it looks like a real photo of something. Very cool design, interested to see your DM map too.

Swifty- The Juice Can looks great, I really like the small details on it and the skin is excellent. My only suggestion is to add beveled edges to it.(or another way of rounding them out a bit.)

Quote from KoKo5oVaR

omfg minoz, this is fucking awesome, pretty neat texturing you have there §!! sorry, but i can't help you on that one, i've never tried something like that before :/Also how will you make the collision model of all this stuff ? :x

It will be way above of 25 parts

It won't be accessible

Quote from Minotauro

vmt:

Code

VertexLitGeneric


{


 "$basetexture" "models\mino\avon_scaffolding_mino" 


"$translucent" "1"


	"$alpha" "1"


}

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Ok, resave your source texture (one you use in max/maya) as avon_scaffolding_mino_alphaparts, bring it into max/maya whatever, place it over the areas you want translucent. Leaving the original texture in parts you don't want translucent.

Re-export your smd, and duplicate your vmt.

Rename the vmt to: avon_scaffolding_mino_alphaparts and save.

Open the avon_scaffolding_mino vmt, and take out $translucent and $alpha and save.

That should now fix the alpha sorting (the problems your getting).

Note: you don't need to compile the avon_scaffolding_mino_alphaparts texture in max/maya to a vtf, as it will pick up the vmt we duplicated and renamed.

Hope that all makes sense

*Edit: If the floor uses a mask (on or off alpha) repeat the above process, but in the new vmt, replace $translucent and $alpha for $alphatest" 1.

hmm thanks for the tip gaz, if I don't find out what's wrong I'll try that.

A single texture should still work tho, I've seen people modelling trees and using the same texture for both the trunk and the leaves.

Quote from Minotauro

Houston we have a problem. I compiled the vmt as following but when I preview the model some weird rendering errors occur:

http://insurgencymod.net/team/upload/Fi ... _error.jpg

vmt:

Code

VertexLitGeneric


{


 "$basetexture" "models\mino\avon_scaffolding_mino" 


"$translucent" "1"


	"$alpha" "1"


}

Display More

Should I put the alpha mapped green thing in a separate texture ?

I don't know if you are aware of it, but there has been reportet a LOT of rendering errors with Source SDK lately. It could be a bug making it look wierd, and if that's the case, it ain't your fault..

Really cool model anyways

put $alphatest 1

unless thats what that alpha thing is .

your normals might be flipped also . if in that case put $nocull 1

i should prob read other peoples post to see if they said this already but i don't have time to

-vivi

n00bs!

mino: get your green thing on an extra MATERIAL not a seperated texture. in the one material you activate translucency in the other one you keep any translucency or alphatesting command out of your vmt.

maybe like

Material_trans.vmt <- for transparency

Material.vmt <- for 100% visible stuff

you can use the same VTF in both material files

hessi you are a genius

Quote from Minotauro

hessi you are a genius

there is no way you can do that is there? i didn't know you could have 2 vmts for the same texture.....

this is madness...

...Hessi you git, thats what I was saying Just in a more complicated harder to understand way...

I'm with vivi on that . . .wow craziness.