[MODEL] Snipergoth's Models.

[SniperGoth]

A map with some of my models, made for demonstration purposes.
I hope someone finds them useful for something.
Download link:
Warning: The landscape model is case-sensitive, because of how big it is. Use it mostly for big outdoor environments.
Download link (~46 megabytes) : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/773 ... gmodel.zip

UPDATE1: Added more content, did some optimizations and updated almost every model with an Ambient Occlusion map baked into it's diffuse.

[ShaneRoach]

Mmmm. Antiquey woodwork. Nice.

[SniperGoth]

UPDATE: Added a download for it, and more screenshots. The mountains might still need a tweak or two in in the default scale.

[bonifarz]

I like the spiral pillar.

Some models look as if they could be built with map geometry, though, they might still be useful. Models for background scenery is a cool idea.

Did you know there's a spin entity attribute in the devel version? Can induce some dizziness on your landscape model

Do you have a list of the vertex counts? Might be useful for someone to review the models.

[SniperGoth]

[qreeves]

If you're going to submit a pull request for this (on your brand new repo), I'd really like to see some of these and other mapmodels put into existing maps within their own context. I'm not sure about the spiral column though with 2696 vertices, it could only ever be a centrepiece and not a repeated item like a column would generally be. I think it might be better trying to achieve the depth changes with texture mapping rather than geometry.

[SniperGoth]

Yeah, you're right, i really need to put these in their own context to get the feeling of where they belong.
And yes, the spiral one is a really hard decision.
Speaking of it, i managed to lower it even further. Now it has about 842 vertices.

[qreeves]

[SniperGoth]

[Dziq]

I like these models, some of them are hardly to be fit somewhere but more models = better for mappers

Snipergoth, you using Wings3D btw ? ;p

[SniperGoth]

[Zero]

Nice work on all the map models.
Love new ones. Just starting to check it out. Brings life and inspiration to maps.
The mountain model for me is nice because I'm not to great at height mapping.
Window grate is nice to.
Fan could be used not only as a fan but also a propeller.
Lamp post and circular lamp are sweet. Doing this with geometry would take up a lot of triangles so this would help.
Grate-8 is cool. I could see using it as large window design.
Can never go wrong with columns either. And more of them.
Love the work, SniperGoth.

[SniperGoth]

Took some screens with some models contextualized.
Also, added the GuardRail (100 verts ~), cogs and spikes model to my folder. I will update the first post's download link soon.

[bonifarz]

I just noticed that some more of your models have been included

[SniperGoth]

Update 1 : Better textures overall, optimizations and etc.

New models included are:

Cable1
Cable2
Sand-Landscape
Waypoint-pole
Spikes
Guardrail

[SniperGoth]

I just did my first ever attempt at a Sci-Fi building... this is the result.
Things are starting to look great for modelling.

[Dziq]

wow, these buildings are looking very nice now do some more skins and please somebody include these ;p

[FaTony]

Are these models? Why do we need them as models?

[SniperGoth]

[bonifarz]

[SniperGoth]

Animations aren't really my strong point, so, no. More of an object and landscape guy.

[SniperGoth]

Update: Another Sci-fi building test (no screens), Castle assets (2, still needs some tweaks) done.

[FaTony]

I don't think Castle needs these. I had an idea of having more towers as background, but it would require changing the map size so I didn't do it.

[Dziq]

... -.- ... but its looking way better I think..

[SniperGoth]

Wasn't really planning to suggest a change to castle with the screens, it's just a demonstration of what can be done :p
And also, im in the mood of making medieval assets at the moment, anyway (doesn't fit the game, i know, i know. Just messing around).

[qreeves]

Are we going to see some of these pushed to your repo soon? I'd like to kick off another "operation" to go through everything and improve the visuals, so maybe you can help me with this while merging in your models to existing maps?

Now that I have a better PC setup, I can see a lot more that needs to be done. The envmap and specularity on most of the actors, weapons, and props is way too high and I've already started by reducing these effects on the player model. After this I'd like to go through the textures we have included and start culling out the less desirable (low res, or overly dark/brown) ones in favour of better looking textures. I'm also wondering if we should move from 512x512 to at least 1024x1024 in order to improve visual details at higher resolutions (there's always maxtexsize for lower end video cards).

[SniperGoth]

Yes, i hope i can get this finished until the end of the month.
I was taking a break, sometimes i lose inspiration to model things, but on the other side... Im gonna release my textures (see screenshots for some sneak peeks) also here on the forum.
The problem is that at the moment it has 500~ megabytes so... better sort out the best ones, hah.
There's also the so called "VRMAN" that i made earlier, but it doesn't reeally fit the theme most of the time, unless used on Purge.
On the topic of specularity, resolution and envmaps:
Seems like the engine doesn't like texture sizes higher than 512x512 for spec, as the specular gets blocky when that happens.
Envmaps can be used to enhance the visuals of a map if used in certain situations.
Higher texture resolution also makes with the size of the data bigger. Most of the times my textures (1024x1024,C,N,S,Z) can get up to 1 megabyte each (5 mg per complete texture basically).

[SniperGoth]

I made this snow mountain some days ago. Im not really sure where it would fit, but im going to make a variant on it, with a more rock look, like Erosion's.

[TheRockyDoo]

These mountains looks really great. I forgot that I can paint and texture something by brushes in model editor. I love yours!

[SniperGoth]

I did a little test on a Star Ring model today.
Here's the result (quality has been butchered though)


EDIT1: Just decided to release the things but... there's so much, this will take quite a while to clean up! (screenshot1)

[SniperGoth]

This is getting interesting...
Im gonna release the models now, by folder name. So... we will see a lot of posts.

[SniperGoth]

An icicle. Not the best looking, but it Works.

[FaTony]

[SniperGoth]

[SniperGoth]

A pipe. There's no variations to it (it had a long time ago, but they weren't really good), at least at the moment.
Im not really sure if there's any map that could use it at the moment, but here it is, if someone feels like using it.

~~400 verts.

[qreeves]

[SniperGoth]

[qreeves]

[FaTony]

Can you make this door open?

Donillo made me the door but he doesn't know how to animate it.

[SniperGoth]

I don't know how to setup models that have more than 1 material on RE, and i don't know how to animate (well, i could never get animations to export right in the first place), so...

[SniperGoth]

The famous mountain models.
There's examples of where they could be used in the thread, so just scale and put them where you'd like.
Mountain1/mountain3/snow-mountain in the zip file.

[FaTony]

Can you make a parabolic antenna that can spin? This would be useful for my map and Erosion too.

[SniperGoth]

[qreeves]

Your problem with leaves is probably just an issue with setting the model to use transparency.

I still want a beard vanity :P

[FaTony]

[SniperGoth]

I'll try to do it, Fatony...

Now, i know absolutelly no one asked for this, but i made a "dirt statue" of the player head with the male model.
I feel it could be useful for a ruin/temple-themed map, like for example, Stone or Tonatiuh.

[qreeves]

Hahaha :P

[SniperGoth]

[FaTony]

[SniperGoth]

And it's done, @Fatony .

The texturing and normal mapping is quite simple, but it Works.
Looks pretty cool on Erosion when mixed with the mountain models.
Might need to tweak the specular values later, but nah, it's good for now
I hope this is useful, as doing the uv-layout was a total pain. hah
To spin it, mess up with the pitch (as by default it's looking straight up), then spinyaw values of the model.

EDIT: See some posts below for the link.

[SniperGoth]

I tried to make a asteroid belt model today but... the engine really doesn't like it.
I wonder what went wrong. (25k tris ~~ )

[SniperGoth]

Made some small changes to the texture of the antenna model. Looks better than before.
I just need to get the specular to be less shiny (even though it's 0.1 0.1 0.1 atm), but that's what we have for now.

[bonifarz]

I have a simple model request: Can you create a thin square box with a texture/shader effect on it that still looks pretty if you scale it to very large sizes? For example, let's take Mikeplus64's goop jar, it has some nice color gradient patches with some weird shaders that make it look cool no matter how you scale it. I'd love to see something similar, without the alpha stuff around, and with a simple shape that matches its bounding box. Is that an easy thing for you to do? Could be pretty cool for mode-specific blockers, like a force field.

[SniperGoth]

[bonifarz]

[Dziq]

I'll try to make that boni
Anyway there are these doors finished (glass door from few posts above)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107 ... door01.zip

[Zero]

I'd love to make map models. Not sure what program you and Dziq are using but you two do good work. I make'm in game which costs me. But I also have known that even map models have their limitations and know nothing of that. I'd love to download both packs and add them to maps but later find out all models don't make the cut. What's the code to remove unplaced map models. I know how to add them like "exec config/map/models.cfg" but for instance one map has 3-4 different loads of models. I know I can do this manually but ya know. It'd be nice to know this for quick execution.

[SniperGoth]

I don't remember if there's a command to do that with models, as the one for taking out unused textures on maps.
I use at the moment Blender for modelling, Gimp + PDN for texture editing, xnormal / AwesomeBump for taking maps out of textures (normal, displacement,spec etc).
And yeah, there's quite a lot of limitations on mapmodels on the engine currently. If for example, there's more than one light hitting the model, the model's lighting will go crazy and light up. Also, if you scale a model to a ridiculous size, and enlarge a map, there's a possibility of it disappearing.
Examples of problems with various lights or even the position of the model on screenshots.
Personally i wish Eihrul would someday work on the model rendering of cube 2's engine, but since he seems busy, that goes into my wishlist hah

[Zero]

Oh ok. Thanks SniperGoth. I'll try and look them programs up when I have enough net usage to download them. And also look for tutorials on youtube. =)

[SniperGoth]

I made this Halo-like ring some months ago.
Im not sure if there's even one map where it could fit currently.
But i'll release just in case someone comes up with something worth to put it on.
I name this the "Tenebrae Station".
~6000 faces/~12400 tris, but its not like something that one would use more than 1 of this giant spinning model in the map.

PS: i took a break from 3d art these 2 last months, so im beginning to get back on it now.

[DonGeilo]

Just a fast idea:



Sry for the potato quality.

[Dziq]

nice model as almost always by Sniper (95% ok, 5% crap models) nice concept DonGeilo

[SniperGoth]

i guess i got too much inspiration from End of Evangelion.
Posed the player model in a T-pose, bloodified the entire body, taken out the head.
END OF ECLIPSEGELION.
Just a little creepy experiment, i'd say :p

[SniperGoth]

A "Vr-fied" player head, 2500 ~~ verts.
I've included the map from the screenshot on the zip file, so it's easier to check it out.

[SniperGoth]

A small set of 3 cable models.
They could be of use for more industrial themed maps, like Cargo, to add more detail.
504 vertices.

[SniperGoth]

A new pipe model, i call it "Dirty pipe".
Since the model's color is mostly gray, you can adjust it to other ones using the entity properties.
There are 3 versions: Long, 90 degrees and 180 degrees.
480 verts.

[Zero]

[qreeves]

I'm going to have to go through this thread and pick out some for inclusion, because SniperGoth isn't putting these forward for inclusion :P

[SniperGoth]

[SniperGoth]

A small test map i made with the models [Grate-8] and [Fence-Goth-Concrete] and some of my own textures (not yet avaiable).
No new files to download for today...

[Zero]

Hey Snipergoth. I downloaded your cables and added them to the data folder under yours. How might I execute them. I don't think it would be the default config in your "Snipergoth" home dir for that file only holds the current in game version models. Right? What would be the best approach or line to type in.

[SniperGoth]

[Zero]

Thank you sir. Pretty sweet cables. I was wanting to check out your other models. The main download link up at top is broken or set to private.

[SniperGoth]

[SniperGoth]

A more modern-looking chair model.
First time doing this type of object, so don't crucify me, haha