EMBX61's New Work in Progress Thread

[embx61]

Just uploaded the separate mods of the Charburner, Shore Hut, and Glass Works as I have split them from the EB Production Set 2 by request.
As I was working on the set I decided to update the Production Set 2 as well as I changed some numbers and included the latest toolbar changes.

Do not use the separates together with Production Set 2

Now back a bit to some 3D Modelling

[embx61]

About 7 houses done beside some touch up here and there.
I probably add one more and after the touch up is done load them in the game.

If all okay in game I AO map them and after the AO do some texture brick/roof tile variants on each house.
Not sure how many but probably about 4 variants on each house.

[zak4862]

Looks awesome. Slow down a bit. Take some time for yourself. You did a really huge work in a last couple days.We are all grateful.
    Regards   zak 4862   

[embx61]

Made some good progress on the stone housing set.

Found some textures of roofs and bricks and it looks like 8 houses with 6 different textures the set will contain.
1 main toolbar and then 6 buttons for the brick choice.
Then a toolbar opens with the 8 different shapes of the houses. so no f key which make choosing 1 set of the same brick/roof easy.

The code for the first 8 houses in 1 brick style are done and in game. It all seem to work and I see no problems.
Next step is AO mapping the 8 main meshes. This same AO map will be also on the 5 variants.

After that is done I will copy/paste the next 8 houses and change the textures. Then do the code and test.
Then copy/paste the next 8 and so on till the 5 other variants are done.

Then it is just the build stages and AO map those and it should be ready.
Still quite some work to do but now it is just a question of copy/paste and texturing, do the coding, and see how it look in game.

[RedKetchup]

looks great

[embx61]

Thanks Red 

I was asked for a bit of height change so this will do i guess.

Take a bit a break and then start the second texture set on 8 houses.

Just copy all my xxxxxxmesh.rsc files from the other 8 and use "Bulk Rename Utility" to rename them in one swoop what saves a lot of time.

[galensgranny]

I like these new stone houses.  I am glad you will have different color choices.

[kid1293]

Hi @embx61 ! You mentioned bulk rename, it is very handy.
I also use this utility. FNR (find and replace over many files)

http://findandreplace.io/?z=codeplex

A real time saver when changing a lot of files.

[embx61]

Thanks Kid

Yeah some of those utilities are really handy.
When I just started with modding I did all the renaming by hand but with many variations a tool saves a lot of time.

Download that FNR as it looks quite handy too. It can change stuff within files I think.
Notepad++ can do that too but I will take a look at FNR.

[RedKetchup]

A real time saver when changing a lot of files.

hehe me too i have my own .... LeGoupillon which is in french (ok for me but not other people) and TextCrawler Pro

[embx61]

Uoch,

If I think about 2 1/2 years back when I started Modding and did everything by hand.
I knew about some tools but never thought about it while modding.

For small stuff it is not so bad but if you make 6 houses with 6 or 8 variations it gets boring pretty fast.

Now dump some files into a temp folder and run a tool to do the renaming

[embx61]

3 sets of the main meshes ready. 3 sets to go.

24 houses now in the FBX file and the poly count is just over 19000

House with least poly is 574 poly, house with highest poly is 982.

Time for some sleep so end this day with another teaser

[RedKetchup]

lovely !!

[zak4862]

Girl, you rock! Looks amazing. Looking forward to this housing set. 

[embx61]

Lol

I am not a girl

It probably because of the Avatar. The Avatar is a picture of my beloved wife.