Fixing emp_midbridge error bushes

New map details in your latest video are great Silk. We'll get a bunch of folks to play this map if I have to bribe them to do it.

 

This part took me a couple weeks of my spare time to work out. Let's see if it pays off for you.....


Here's my command line for model compiling. Notice I have it calling the app from the team fortress folder. (because what they tell you to use DOESN'T WORK, gui has been broken a long time)

"c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\bin\studiomdl.exe" -nop4 -r -game "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Empires\empires" -notxbox C:\_Catch\EmpiresJunk\QC\tankbarricade_2c_lg_col.qc


And here's how I've written my .qc file.

Code:

$scale .78
$modelname	"misfire\tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg.mdl"
$cdmaterials	"misfire"
$body tankbarricade "C:\_Catch\EmpiresJunk\SMD_BlenderExports\tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg.smd"
$texturegroup skinfamilies
{
    { "tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg0" }
    { "tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg1" }
    { "tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg2" }
    { "tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg3" }
    { "tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg4" }
}

$staticprop
$surfaceprop	combine_metal
$sequence idle	"C:\_Catch\EmpiresJunk\SMD_BlenderExports\tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg.smd" // no animation wanted, so re-using the reference mesh
$collisionmodel	"C:\_Catch\EmpiresJunk\SMD_BlenderExports\tankbarricade_triangle_2c_lg-phy.smd" { $concave } 

As long as you have all the bits in the proper folders, you will get a model. Getting the texture on it, is another chapter.

 

While .png might work fine for now, my own experience shows that .tga works a lot better in places where you need texture transparency. Otherwise .png is totally fine.

 

Always a good tip. I've used that one before.

Yeah, I did the same. Gave you the basics, I knew you'd work out the rest smart guy. :D

Handy too when you build your collision model on a second layer. Hit export in blender and just decide which bit gets built.
You can also set blender to launch the model viewer to if you want.

 

Plant and texture look fine. Just need to adjust your scale.
In blender I changed my grid size from 1 to 10. It gets your object size closer to real size. ("$scale" 1.0) Blender grid scale somewhere between 10-11 probably accurate, but you can always adjust the scale size in your .qc setting.

Here they are near the base of a barricade. Sand whiskers.

 

I went to x10 to match "life size" and why I said to change blender grid size from 1 to 10. This is based on what I saw when I imported actual size models in to blender from my other cad software. x10-11 put them back to proper scale. Based on the hammer picture and knowing my barricade base is about 8" high, that makes your plant look about 1-1.5" tall with your current settings.

 

Any progress on this? Looking like 2.5 will be pushed out soon so if the bushes could be fixed on midbridge before that then that would be great

 

Looks darn good to me. Just what that dingy barricade needed, some greenery.




Sorry I haven't added more lately. I've been swamped with work, and unfortunately it'll stay that way for at least another week or more. :p

 

Depends on what you're after. That's about 10-12" high. For ground decoration/clutter, seems fine to me. If it needs be be more like the size of a bush or small tree, then yes would need to be ~3 times bigger that that.

Maybe to get a better idea of scale, go to the scene settings in blender and under "units" change the grid reference from "none" (blender units) to metric or imperial instead. Might help scale things more to what they actually will be in-game. That barricade is about 2.25 meters high.

 

I'm like so lost on what this thread has to do with fixing Midbridge.

But it's all good, I just fixed it with a hex editor. Just had to modify the model file.

 

I'm glad I wasn't the only one lol