It still needs re scaling and finishing off, but 253 nodes, and 204 elements later, it's starting to look the part. Just a shame there is no nodes left, to add all the nice bits.

Lovely work Col,

and a nice template for a range of new building types I am sure


cheers,


Pobs

Col,
Excellent work, my hats off to you. I missed this post a few days ago
so wanted to extend my gratulations to a job well done. Many thanks
my friend, I know from our correspondence it wasn't easy.



MadProf

Hi MadProf.

I'm still standing by for some more textures.

Hi Col,

Ok, I'll start with some of the other historical London buildings.
Give me a day or two, I need to convert them from dds files to pcx
files.


MadProf

Col,
Check your email, sent you some more textures to play with.

Btw, you're pm is full so had to post this here.


MadProf

This needs to be discussed again.

Alright, I'll get the ball rolling.

Pobs and I started to compile a pretty good list back a while. We were going to make a new target set for the default EAW world. Unfortunately my wife took a turn for the worse and I had to drop it. We've never been in the same place EAWwise since then to pick it up.

There are about 220 tmod models ready to go in one of my subfolders on the Gen's server.

Stuff like this:












There's also a bunch of other stuff like:

Small buildings
Forts
Bunkers
Beach obstacles
Trenches
Radar installations
Radio towers
Cranes
Docks and wharfs
Trains

Many of these have more than one model. Meaning, as in the case of the dumps, that there is a small, medium and large model for more variety.

Another one of our ideas was to have two or three of the same truck, tank or half track in different slots but with different destroyed models so that when you look at a destroyed convoy the wreckage wouldn't be the same for each vehicle destroyed.

Actually, I think we did it with a few ships too.


To be clear, there's a lot of stuff out there in EAW land for modders to work with. It all doesn't have to be done from scratch.

In many cases I improved existing tmods from around the EAW world. For instance the POW camp was originally a VB model that I added buildings to. The towed artillery TMOD was made by joining an existing truck with an existing cannon. ( Not as simple as it might seem to the casual observer since to get it to work you have to have two models with working rendering sequences. Which as EAW veterans know is NOT the usual circumstance.)

I made the ground planes by using middle distance models from the existing plane sets and tilted them with a utility program made just for that.

So there should be more than enough models available to fill up a new list. It's just a matter of agreeing what goes where.

Ah, 3dz's are fine, but have the 256 slot numbers have been allocated?

If no one has written the 256 Tmod properties list, then one, without the other, gives you nought.

Uh, duh, of course not but having a boatload of usable models sure will help the discussion move from the theoretical to the practical.