Back again, wanted to say hi once more :)

[Pureon]

Btw i am very excited today cause a short story of mine will be published in a newspaper of London (one of the diasporic ones). It is my fourth ever published story in a periodical/paper (i write psychological fiction)... I am still anxious about it...

So did it get published in the end? Hope you got yourself a copy if it did

[Kyriakos]

Thank you, yes it did, but unfortunately the people in London were too cheap to send me a copy :/

Anyway, it will get published again elsewhere. That was a first for me, in a foreign newspaper

[Pureon]

What newspaper was it in? (I live in London)

[Kyriakos]

http://www.eleftheria.co.uk/

It is a local paper of the greek community (or rather focuses on a part of the greek and greek/cypriot community).

It was published two weeks ago.

[Kyriakos]

A week later, i am a bit more familiar with Blender. Here are two of my models:

[feneur]

Seems like you're really getting somewhere And you seem to have a certain kind of style already, so keep at it I'd say

[Kyriakos]

Thank you Feneur

I am currently creating a city with a castle. Will have to model a barbican as well. Still learning about Blender rendering and lighting...

Edited December 4, 2012 by Kyriakos

[Kyriakos]

Hello again

By now i have become reasonably familiarised with Blender. I can export collada files, and recall that you once wanted some strategic map city models (campaign map).

Here is what my cities currently look like:

I hope you are all well

[NoMolester]

Woooah, what is this, some sort of civ like game?

link?

[Kyriakos]

Hi, these were made as sets for civIII. After some discovery it was possible to have huge cities in that game

[NoMolester]

So that is civ 3? i don't remember civ 3 having those graphics. Are you going to implement them on 0 ad?

[Kyriakos]

If they are needed.

However i do not model anything in the scale of the game map buildings in 0 ad. Which is why i mentioned the old comment about the strategic map city models

And civIII currently uses such graphics, by others and me. We are full 3d by now.

[Ludo38]

darn, that's awesome ! Great work Kyriakos and thanks for sharing. Ca you offer us a closer look ? I'd love to see the same picture but 3 times bigger if you're ok.

On the previous page I also saw a very interesting precolombian set that seems to have very rich details.

Keep the good work. And it's good to know you're learning Blender fast. I'm learning it too, but slower I think..

[Kyriakos]

Hi Ludo, thank you

Those you quoted were made with Bryce, and cannot be exported. I am now using Blender.

Some image of a Mauryan set i am making, using concept art found in this forum

Edited December 6, 2012 by Kyriakos

[NoMolester]

Excelent stuff *¬*

[Kyriakos]

Thank you

[Pureon]

By now i have become reasonably familiarised with Blender. I can export collada files, and recall that you once wanted some strategic map city models (campaign map).

Welcome back buddy

I created this very simple tutorial that explains how to get a 3D collada model into 0 A.D. - please try it and show us the results

[Kyriakos]

Hi Pureon

I will have a look, although my work uses blender internal textures (easier for me to manipulate) and although by now i can uv-map, it is tedious and not really needed for most of my work. Which is why i mentioned the strategic map.

Also you already have some great modellers around anyway

The finished Greek and Mauryan sets:

Edited December 6, 2012 by Kyriakos

[Enrique]

I will have a look, although my work uses blender internal textures (easier for me to manipulate) and although by now i can uv-map, it is tedious and not really needed for most of my work. Which is why i mentioned the strategic map.

If you are interested, there's a quick way even if you use procedural textures. The process is very simple:

-Join all meshes into one object.

-Unwrap it with "U"->"Smart UV Project"

-Create a new image.

-Bake the textures into the image.

Voilá, you have it UV unwrapped, and an image texture instead of procedural with 4 steps.

[Kyriakos]

Interesting. How do i "bake" the textures all in one image? Never done that before.

[Enrique]

Interesting. How do i "bake" the textures all in one image? Never done that before.

I'm guessing you are using a pre- 2.5 version of blender? (I remember that blue background as the world default)

If that's the case I have to search how it's done. It's been a long time since I used the old interface versions.

EDIT: here's how to bake in old blender versions: http://wiki.blender....ual/Render/Bake

EDIT 2: You can find the bake button on the render panel, there you can select full render (with lights and shadows), textures only (what I was suggesting), normals and AO.

[Kyriakos]

I use Blender version 2.6.3

Will have a look, thanks...

[Enrique]

I use Blender version 2.6.3

Will have a look, thanks...

Oh, sorry. In that case it's even simplier.

You can find the bake pannel at the bottom of the render tab (the camera icon)

Here's the info for the latest blender versions: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Bake

[Pureon]

Thanks for helping out Enrique

[Kyriakos]

Seems simple, i will get around to texturing in this way one of the models and then upload it here.

Currently i am working on my Byzantine set, i saw some thread about the Empire, not sure if that project is still active though

Edited December 7, 2012 by Kyriakos