Jamming Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I want to make a city and i know how to place roads ect. Can i just pick a spot in the ocean drop in the roads and begin? Or do i have to make land and stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertyjerzian Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 the best way I found was to make a big piece of land, mostly flat, and polyformed at about one poly per grid unit, then cut in your roads. Extrude the land and the sidewalks at the same time about "0.3 " units (In max) which will leave the roads seeming sunken (as they should be with curbs etc) Then begin cutting it up in pieces not to exceed 1000 polies and name each one. Center the axis on each individual piece to 0,0,0. Using the map I/O by Kam, before moving any pieces and making exports etc, make an IPL for them. To do so, you will need to hand make an IDE. once all the coords are saved with the MAP I/O, you then can begin sending each piece to the origin (0,0,0) and exporting each piece as DFF, and make cols however you prefer. Lengthly process, but these things take time. Once you have all the pieces, you can install them as you would any other mod to begin working. As you build lots you should pull in a piece of your map and build on it while deleting polies that get covered. The benefit of that is that you already have every static model as baseland, adding to it and attatching things eliminates the need to place buildings etc, just update the piece in question, it's TXD, and re-insert them to your IMG. Then they are already placed. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadropheniac90 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 (edited) How big was that piece of land, Derty? And how do I 'polyform' it? I think I'm gonna try to make my own island for SOL. EDIT: I screwed up already. Hope I can find someone to help me... Edited December 13, 2005 by teun.steenbekkers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamming Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 What i mean is. Im building a island in the ocean i can just add in the grass and build on top of it? Ill be using some of the IPLs in the generic files which includes the roads signs and basic items for me to use. I will elevate the road higher then the ocean around the same hight it is in vice city. So can i build on top of an ocean? Put down the land and then work away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadropheniac90 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Well, if you have the cols and everything, I guess you can, if you place a whole road network without any land under it, it'll work fine until you go off, but that's just logical I guess. Not that good of a mapper, so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamming Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Well then ill have to expirement. I just want to use what im given at first. Placing the grass roads airport runways and then i will look for someone to make textures for me the island i plan on making is around the size of the Airport inlcuiding where the runways are. and then a residential area around the size of the Starfish island. Ill get back here if i discouver any problems with placing the textures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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