StarGate Fans

[DoomsKnight]

Im no good mesh maker nor texturer. But thanks to RazorWing and Ghogiel i have managed to create a stargate completely from scratch. The textures are not all complete. But it is presentable, which is why i am adding a picture for all to see. Im not sure if anyone would actually like to download this stargate when complete. If so, just post saying you would. I am a huge stargate fan, and have enjoyed making this.

Use it in your own mods if u like. A will go ahead and make a mod with my brother, in which the portal opens up to a world, and you go thorugh and complete a mission. Which will also be avaliable for download if u wish. =)

The textures, despite being good enough, will be altered and upgraded soon. I have decided to make the portal innner bit as a seperate object, so that the portal will be existant in game all the time, where as the portal will be opened up. Post your comments on what you think. Thanks

Please Note, the objects have been moved into view of the camera so that you can see all the meshes and textures my bro and i have made so far. In game, the objects are in their realistic place.

PLEASE download the pictures if you view any, so i can see how many people have downloaded/viewed it. thanks.

(the picture with the Dialler is best)... i seem to have forgotten to add the stargate centre in the pic :eek:

Please feel free to post your views

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

Wow, looks very nice!

[DoomsKnight]

thanks. looks alot better in game, but i dont know how to take ingame pics/screen shots

[Ghogiel]

good work mate.

I do see that the UV isn't correct though....see the inside of the ring. That whole inner face is sharing 1 pixel of space on the UV map. you may be happy with it, cos really it doesn't seem to detract too much from the model. but I would fix it . I probbaly would select all them faces and cylindrical map them. It shoud just be a long strip of faces. seeing that doesn't need any details I would start stacking the faces on top of the next one. make em square too. then make a tiling texture from your existing texture....and fit it all together on there.

Its the little touches.

pretty ace job on it though.

ingame screens....I use fraps

[DoomsKnight]

Yep. The inside is sharing 1 pixel. The outside isnt though i managed to somehow flatten it, except i dont remember how. The other ones wouldnt let me select this button. Why so? This was one of the parts i was going to change

Not sure what u mean by stacking faces. Do you also mean, make every part read from the same texture file, so the left side is the portal, and the right side contains the textures for the chevrons? all in one texture

IM going out for the night. Ill check back in later

[Ghogiel]

http://download.yousendit.com/6256FB62208C018C
this basicly is a picture run through of what I described in my previous post

the last 3 pics show what I meant about one by one stacking all the faces of that center part in the UV map....select a face at the far end.....right click- break....hold shift and move it so it lays on top of the next one...repeat till you have a single square. More surface occuies the same space on the UV map. Its just to maximise space and mak it easy to texture.

you'll need to make tiling texture for that to work out proper though.

Oh I put a checker pattern material on half way through that series, so you can see stretching. stretching is the devil to a UV map. and its hellish for the texturer

[DoomsKnight]

I shall give it ago when i get chance

[Ghogiel]

http://www.tessource.net/files/file.php?id=7549#gallery

just happened across this.... by Sahardoom

[IAMTHEEMPEROR]

That doesn't count, because I'm pretty sure they were using morrowind water as a texture.

[Cuthalion]

It looks really cool! Nice job!