Hi there, Ron Jensen wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 13:11 +1000, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > >>Hi there, >> >>Australasian (and other) fg users may be interested in progress >>I'm making on modelling the CBD of Brisbane Australia... >> >>http://users.tpg.com.au/blobster/brisbane-cbd.jpg >> >>Its a massive model (spans over 2 km/units in Blender) but has >>not impacted framerate too much (yet)...still a lot of texturing >>to do, but getting there... > > Do I understand you correctly, this is one single mesh with all the > buildings rising out of single plain base?
Thats correct. Its mostly one mesh, with a few buildings near the edges on smaller additional meshes, and each individual building is for the most part one face with the vertices nearest the base of the building, as seen from google earth, aligned closely, and then that face is just extruded into the sky. After creating the mesh with enough buildings I jumped onto www.emporis.com, where I got a list of heights of the 15-20 tallest, then back to Blender to adjust the heights of the individual ones. The more notable buildings get a texture based on what they really look like, but most get a default texture from about 6 or 7 I've created/grabbed. All uv maps are on one 1024x1024 rgb picture... > Brilliant. More efficient perhaps in modelling time, and it negates the need to create multiple entries in the stg files (the placing of the individual buildings in those would have taken ages!). One downside is that the terrain is not flat under the model. It would be cool to have a function where I can export a chunk of the terrain to a mesh, but since I cannot get the scenery tools working thats a moot point. The innaccurate river boundaries in the default terrain are a hindrance, as the tallest scrapers are meant to sit riverside, but not get wet feet... :-) My aim is to have Brisbane look roughly like Brisbane, as I fly into or out of its airspace. The modelling I'm doing is pretty rough, but so long as you don't fly a Cessna between the scrapers you likely will not see how roughly they're modelled...its the view from a distance that gives a city its look, not the close-up details... :-) Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
