some decoration question etc...

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:16 pm

i suggest to group some questions etc about decoration in this post ?!

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:20 pm

first:
- i've created pine-trees with a snow layer, addapted the texture
it's pretty ok, but what not so nice i think, is that there is a little bit to much shadow? projected on 1 side...
it would be nice to have no black effect on it (or maybe even better) a blue shine on it...
have a look at the screenshot...

someone an idea to do this (as simple as possible explained, i'm not a crack at photoshop, but can follow some simple things, i guess)

(maybe this tree would look better with a better system???)

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:24 pm

i created 4 snow pines,
now within the the terrain editor i am planting those pines, one per one,
is it possible to use the terrain-editor like with normal trees, where you can plant multiple pines at once???

Post by **Warll** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:26 pm

What program did you use?

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:41 pm

i'm using photoshop cs2...
(but this shadow is by default so dark, isn't it?)

Another test i did:

My first Zoo Tycoon 2 animal in Railroads

here's the example: an ostrich (there are plenty of animals)
(another animal i tested resulted in a pink (polar bear))
i must admit, the nif-file etc... i copied into the custom-assets really included alot of files,
those zoo animals do have alot of animations, behaviopur etc, so it's surely not a good stripped version,
but it works and looks nicd!?

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:45 pm

Does someone knows how you can move a decoration (in a kind of animation)
fe the wolf has an run action, but i think this will result in a wolf running at the same spot so not really running from left to right etc)
we do have an example of karsten where the bear had an action,
i will need to have a closer look at this, how to connect the action with the bear, wolf
is it also possible to have a chain of actions??? fe crying-wolf and afterwards another action???

ps: there's already some post here, i will be testing that right now...
i'll keep you informed...
http://hookedforums.com/a/viewtopic.php ... light=bear

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:10 pm

If you look in some of the FPK files in Assets in SMR, you'll find some other animals. I came across a chicken and a rooster.

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:01 pm

i can't find that snoop? wich fpk or wich directory, i did a search without any results on that, you're sure you were not just looking out the window?

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:30 pm

Naw, I'm on the second floor and we don't let chickens and roosters fly in the US.

Industries, hen_diff.dds, rooster_diff.dds and tuna_fish.dds.

Found them while I was seperating the industries into seperate folders.

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:15 pm

yes, but seperating them from the industries, the chicken model or pigs etc ... is one step too far for me... i guess

but yes there are pigs (when they get loaded that can walk)

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:34 am

2 wolfs doing 2 different actions???

OK, i can let my wolf cry and fidget
BUT
i can't have 2 wolfs doing 2 different things,
i've already tried alot:
- having 2 references to a wolf with their locations spedified in each
but then the wolfs will just do 1 actionlist, one reference will be readed and used... so ending up with 2 wolfs doing exactly the same
- i've also created a copy of all those woolf files and renamed them to Oolf but then my oolf is next to the woolf but this one doesn't do any action, i had the same action-code as the woolf to start with in my xml...
someone?
it's pretty stupid having 2 wolfs on the map doing exactly the same action at the same time...

the only thing i can think of is to have a wolf next to a bear but you will not see so much just one wolf alone, most of the time they are in a group, and surely you will never see a group of wolfs doing a synchronised wolf-dance....

stormfather · Post by **stormfather** » Fri May 04, 2007 3:59 pm

Does civilization IV use the same type of animation files as SMRR? Would it be possible to import buildings from Civ IV into SMRR?

Post by **Warll** » Fri May 04, 2007 5:05 pm

I'm sure it does. After all most of the programs we use, were made for Civ.

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Fri May 04, 2007 7:50 pm

Gforce - to seperate them I use DragonUnPACKer5 which is freeware. You can do a search for it on the web.