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Building bridges and instrument lights


Flexman

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bridge_preview.jpgDave sent me his first bridge work for crossing the Death Star trench across our terrain.

 

Pictured below is an editor scene showing it in place with some of our other 3D assets rolling across it.

 

Five brickwork textures were used to break up the surface detail with colour matching used to make it blend with the terrain textures.

 

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Last night I finished playing around with the cockpit night lighting thanks to Bushmaster and his reference photos and nudging to fix the colours. Three rotary controls by the pilots left side control levels of the panel lights, dome light and backlighting. Having an little issue with the backlighting levels as I'm setting the levels by sending a uniform float to adjust levels of the glow shader, with mixed results, I'm doing something wrong.

 

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Have some details on the MPDs and navigation to sort out. The direct-to menu to add on the "M" key, rocket submode and the master arm on/off. I've borrowed some nice bullet code that I plan to adapt to the chain gun when these pages start driving me crazy again.

 

The next month will have me looking at our iPhone game which is a way of supporting longer term development by using existing 3D assets in a two-minute finger shooter. We've been experimenting with the dev kits just to get a feel for the workflow and HID considerations. Our game is not ambitious, take-it out, play, spank some bad-guys. The platform is capable of a whopping 6k-8k polys with around 30 draw calls per frame, which is a little smaller than the typical 250k-500k poly scenes in Combat-Helo.

 

Here's a parting shot of the CP/G station with panel lights and backlighting, again with the mock TADS image from another game (image supplied by Gary Wright). Hopefully it won't be too long before we get ours in place.

 

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The bridge looks like taken from Counter Strike and lacks detail plus texture work.

But your cockpit works and vehicles are awesome. :D

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Yes the rought shape isthe same but your model has straight cubic edges. The bridge on the photo has some smooth plastered corners and the transition is smooth. This makes the difference to realism.

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