3DForge Exteriors

Hi everyone,

Some more screenshot, also showing some excellent examples of Top Down game use

These building are all from the FREE BLUEPRINTS for the Village Exteriors Kit
















Thank you @AdamGoodrich for developing Gaia, it really delivers excellent environmental results

Cheers
Cobus

 

Hey I see a wagon and a bale of hay there @Cobus. Are you teasing us here.

 

@TommyT These screenshots came from @AdamGoodrich
He used some props from another package

BUT , that is the kind of things that is in the second FREE Update
2.Outdoors Props Pack

Cheers
Cobus

 

OK everyone ,

The update will add Ambient Occlusion maps as well as being Unity 5 Ready.
First screenshots of contents being added with the first FREE Update on the road map from the first post

1 Unit wide wooden roofs with all extensions, T, L & X modules for 1 - 2- 3 -4 -5 wide roofs


Broken edged roof Style " f " >> 1 - 2- 3 -4 -5 wide roofs


Extended Modular frames to add smaller extensions that are walkable interiors wise.








More coming soon.

Cheers
Cobus

 

Just imagine how weird the building may look like if you used all of these like this.

 

@smada luap
The funny things is, with the newly extended modular frames I think you can even

 

That's cool. I'll be able to redo one of the buildings I made with the new frame and roof setup. Are we going to get roofs with lower angles, too?

 

@EDarkness if you look at the road map on the first post you will see, I am right at this moment busy exporting the flat top dormers, I know you specifically will love them (will post pics when they done)
Then the 6 wall textures types the lower pitched "tries" to accommodate the lower roofs
I am adding the lower sloped Thatch first, I will see how long that takes then add the wooden and slate type A as a first

But first priority is Thatch, for that will also get the high angled versions

 

Nice I'm excited. Love to see gabel roof pieces as well to do the little square tower like where you church bell hangs.

Or great to use larger ones on top of misc tower like gaurd towers.

 

@TommyT
I think I can output smaller ones even for decorative purposes

 

Hey! Not sure that idea has been tossed out yet.. little church type steeples with the bells that could be put on top of the houses to make small village churches when you have little settlements that wouldn't have a huge cathedral type thing.. Or if you have a small village of monks/clerics... Great idea @TommyT!

 

@Shawn67 @TommyT
That is exactly what I will do.
So far I have built all the parts to be walkable, meaning they work inside and outside 100%.
But there will be a selection of stuff that is just cool and very " Medievally "
Lest call them Snap-ons that I will have prefabs in that will just be cools stuff that give character and flavor to your creations.

 

Hi,

They came out very nice, going add nice extra variety for roofs.

Most of the flat top dormer windows are in Unity.
- 6 Wall texture types
- 1 - 2 - 3 Window sizes
- Wooden tiles
- Slate tiles




Cheers
Cobus

 

YAAAY !!!
All the dormer windows are in Unity

Now doing lower sloped tries for the thatch roofs



Cheers
Cobus

 

I was going to jokingly ask why you weren't done yet until I went back to the first page to look over what you'd already done so far and realised then just how much more is being added into the next update

 

@smada luap
I just now finished adding the lower sloped tries that are getting the thatch roofs.
These lower sloped roofs will also get the dormers with thatch.

They are basically half the angle of the existing, so with the
- New flat top dormers and the thatch and all all the new jagged edges roofs, the results will just be great.

I want each FREE Updates to really add great value, not just a few trinkets but rather a big asset gain for package owners
I want them each to be a new present

as stated before the Blue prints will every-time grow since there are new "LEGO' parts to add to the mix



Cheers
Cobus

 

Very nice. Will be great to add some varied roof pitches to the buildings.

I noticed the stone and wooden walls kit is way down on the list. Hopefully that's not the actual order.

My nice little town could be invaded by goblins at any moment.

 

Kinda hard to put an order to things.. Everything has its importance level to someone.. Without cemeteries, where will our town bury their dead? Without markets, where will our town trade stuff? Without harbors where will our fishermen/women work or travelers travel from? I don't envy Cobus having to try to prioritize what comes next. Luckily I'm not fighting a deadline, so easy for me to wait regardless of the order.. heheh I'm just glad thatched was one of the first.. And props is high on the list. That way at least I can start putting together basics. Other than castles and cathedrals, I wish they were all already done. I don't really have castles/cathedrals in my system so can take or leave those, but I know they are important to some folks too.. heheh

 

I know what you mean. I'm really in serious need of curbs since I'm working on a city right now. Everyone is in need of something different so how to make sure everyone is satisfied? Don't envy Cobus.

 

Holiday nearly over - but thought I'd add my bit...
Low angle thatch with all the usual Ts, inner and outer 90 degree corners for me please

Back soon

 

@Whippets YEAH!!!, lots of cool new stuff added soon to the Village Exteriors Kit

 

Just wanted to add that I'm really looking forward to the low roof options. For some of my buildings, the low roof would just be better. Can't wait to mess around with them.

 

Love love love the low roof angles!! Those will be so useful. Thank you, Cobus! Looking forward to the thatch too.

 

Instantly 2 racial architectural styles just from the roof slopes. Going to make multi-race fantasy habitation so easy.

 

Hi,

In the spirit of getting even more than what you thought/expected
Just finished adding some more very exciting parts to the contents that for the first FREE Update for the
Village Exteriors Kit

Do you wonder why you got all the half-walls, 1.4 & 1/2 floor tiles with the compatibility update delivered to the Village Interiors Kit

Now you know

I planned to have such Bay-window type extensions added into the Village Exteriors Kit and wanted them walkable as interiors.
2 Units wide, 3 Units wide, 4 Units Wide in
- Stone01
- Stone02
- Wood02
They just add more character and really a great looking medieval type addition



Cheers
Cobus

 

A little window seat in the bay. How sweet!

 

@Teila Yeah, just think of the inside, a bed and small table can fit into that, or a table and chair and a nice open window

 

Any chance they will be added to match all the wall types? Inevitably someone is going to build a house with a different wall type and if you don't make them for all the available wall types, it may not look right..

 

@Shawn67
Hehe, of course, included the Village Exteriors Update v1. will be base flames for all these sizes that you can grab and slap in any of the existing wall parts


Cheers
Cobus

 

I guess that was my point... Some of the half wall pieces are missing for certain wall types... Wood01 is the one that I noticed, but their might have been others. Interiors kit is missing the horizontal boarded walls as a wall type too. I ended up having to change my bungalow that I was building to use the vertical board walls so I could get interior walls that matched..

 

@Shawn67 Cool, that one of the left that is in will open up using any of the Exteriors wall textures
I am in fact also giving those base wood & stone strips you see on the screenshot above on the second, third & forth ones as loos "clip-ons" as well so that if you feel like, you could add them wherever you want

 

Would be nice to also get some Farm stuff and things which you need for an village hehe

 

Check out the roadmap.. Props are next after he finishes the thatched roof stuff. Not sure everything he has in mind for the props pack (since some props will most likely be saved for some of the future packs on the list), but feel free to suggest some of the stuff you feel are missing...

 

Hey @UltraTM first time see you posting on the thread, welcome

With the thatch texture you going to be able to have much more farm looking houses and outbuildings for sure.
I will make sure either in the release or via BLUEPRINTS that there will be some cool pre-done ones for all package owners.

PS (Have you grabbed the 100 FREE BLUEPRINTS already available)

With the props and some of the Unique buildings you going to get lots of those
Thanks update coming soon, hope to have the last part mostly done on the weekend

Don't forget to rate and review you 3DForge purchases

Cheers
Cobus

 

Hey S4G4N,

thx

Yes i grabbed them. Its so awesome to build that stuff up. I also have the Interior Pack. Cause im building the ingame house stuff for my MMORPG with your pack.
Only thing is need to rebuild an change a lot of interior stuff to get it work also with multiple floor houses.
The floor is invisibel you can look thru and such stuff. Need to copy the floor and flip it around. But then i have a lot of objects again instead of 2 renderd graohics for floors.

 

@UltraTM Great that you have both, they work very well together.

After the first FREE Update for the Village Exteriors Kit is live and submitted with Unity 5 Ready
I will also start to have Blueprints for Interiors as well as Interiors & Exterior Combos

You welcome to post some screenshots here or of the 3DForge Facebook page of your project

Cheers
Cobus

 

One of the things I'm wondering about is the possibility of building the houses and then baking them into a single model somehow. Not sure if something like Mesh Baker (or something similar) would work for that or not. But the building custom houses and worrying about all the pieces has been a concern I've had as well. Not just floors, but walls, roofs, beams, and other static parts as well. Not even sure if it is an issue or not, but it is at least something I've thought about.. lol

 

I remember @Olander posted about that and gave good advice on that.
I am also going to output larger prefabs, as in walls that consist of 2,3,4,5 long parts, even walls for a whole single floor
That will be walls and frame for one floor as a single mesh, meaning you house can have that, the two tries and roof, so technically 4 meshes for a complete house.

Concerning Exteriors he said that you do not even need LOD's becasue of how optimized the meshes were already

 

And we will remake the textures. Cause we are using an fantasy style in our game. This is ultra hd realistic.
of course very cool, But not everyone makes an game which looks like reallife hehe

Or would you make some fantasy styled painted textures maybe also ? So the user could drop in the materials they would use real or painted style. I use the styl like in the Top Down Interior pack for example.

And we use also the LOD group with only 1 LOD level but to use the culling for the objects. Saves a lot of performance

 

@UltraTM I love Michael O's style myself.
I have not even tried that yet but is one of the things I want to still teach myself in future.
Thanks for supporting 3DForge assets, I will keep them coming

 

How is everyone doing with the set ? I've got about 90% of my town done and it's looking amazing. The only tweaking I've been doing is to remove all the box and mesh collider a and add 1 large box collider over the building. Someone earlier said that would help with the frame rates because of less physics calls.

I'm sure once we get some of these amazing assets I'll tweak some of the buildings. Also can't wait for the Gaia to help me do a cool terrain to put it in.

 

Hey @TommyT ,

Had interruptions end of last week and on the weekend
You going to laugh but they really out of my control
First, no running water for 2 days,
then when that came on and all fine,
Then no electricity for almost a day
Have a family to take care of so those things take first priority, but am working right now and the Thatch Update is almost done and you going to love the next batch of pics just before release

Cheers
Cobus

 

No more pics.. we want to update to provide you with pics

 

A water main near us keeps bursting. Filling pans and kettles with water is becoming a habit
Glad you back on the grid

 

@docsavage crappy when things like municipal water and electricity you except as normally there and in place, just be there suddenly gone

 

@S4G4N can you maybe help then to generate the normal maps ?
cause we are editing the dif maps but dont know how to get the normal maps of this.

Would be awesome. Then i can also make some screens what is all done able with your pack


Or you can tell or show me how to generate them ^^ THX

 

UltraTM, you can use some outside tools. If you are editing textures, you should have Photoshop or Gimp. Look for a plugin that can be used to make normal maps. Just do a google search and after you download the plugin, look at where to install it. Should be easy enough.

 

Awesome

 

@Teila yes i know such plugins and stuff but it always look a way different if you try to make it for an texture which allready has an normal map it always look wierd^^

And i know Photoshop and that stuff. We are curently creating an CMS for Atavism. which i will announce soon on the Atavism Forums. I have an Webdesign Company. But 3D is new for me. And the 3D programs like Blender and Maya will generate that maps in the correct way

 

Ahh, then I suggest getting Blender or Maya and watching some videos on how to do it. If you change the texture, then you need an entirely new normal. The old one won't work so you can toss that.

I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to do. If the original normal was created using 3d sculpted models, then yes, you will get better results baking a normal from a 3d model. But Photoshop, CrazyBump, or other programs that make normals off of photographs will work find for 3dForge since that is how I believe the normals were made in the first place.

Maybe you mean atlases? In this case, I am sure you can do them in Maya or Blender. There are lots of tutorials out there.