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Old 4th January 2009, 01:45 AM   #1
HighXplosive
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Post I May Have Terribly Misunderstood Something...

Hi there.

I'm doing a 3D model of a model map of a castle and its surrounded terrain. It's basically a miserable attempt at making a 3D model of one of those mini-models of like a city, or certain place. I've tried to do one of a castle. This is my first attempt at 3D modelling....so it's going to be laughable, but nonetheless...

Now, in the process of making this model, I've coloured my surfaces using the palette. What I have constructed is a mesh of triangles that I'ved divided up as a went along. I've raised and lowered parts of this mesh to construct a terrain map.

I've then added a number of primative shapes onto this to construct the "walls", "towers" and "gatehouse" of my castle. I then used four arbitrary textures, for:

- grass
- wood
- stone
- snow
- water.

I did repeat these textures on some objects because they looked better when I repeated them. The grass texture is repeated as is the stone texture on some objects. I did also used the TCE to map them on so they looked correctly (even if I have barely a scooby what the TCE actually does).

Using the palette, I coloured individual areas of the whole mesh so that it begins to look like a terrain model (or a very amateur attempt at one at any rate!). There's also a light floating around somewhere.

I then rendered it using povray: an application which I have as much knowledge about as I do about marine engineering (none)! So out comes my render. Disappointingly the colours that I used from the palette to carefully blend my surface mesh as best as my lacklusters skills can have been omitted and not to mention the actual model itself is horribly poor quality.

Anyway, it doesn't as I thought it would be. I now believe I may have terribly misunderstood what the palette material colours are. I have put a lot of work into this, even though its a layman's attempt, and have to salvage it because its part of a project due in the next few days.

Any advice that can be given will be much appreciated. I have attached an image of the IDE so you can see what I'm trying to accomplish, albeit poorly.
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