[locO G]

QUOTE (illspirit @ Jul 20 2006, 21:53)

Sorry Cerb, didn't know that's what you meant. Putting both sides on embankments would be too much work, but, hopefully one side is good enough?

It looks good, a very interesting location. There are lots of different levels with which to work (a lot modellers dream).
It also looks good for for some crazy 'PCJ' stunts (off the hill, onto the track, handbrake and sideways off and down onto the road). Awesome!

With regards the track supports, when the 'northern islands' are finally released, individual modellers should have the choice of what best fits their lots. This is a good thing. For example...

Rural lots: embankments or, where clearance necessitates, viaducts.
Urban lots: Functional metal supports with some incorperated into the older existing buildings.
Sub-urban lots: Brick/re-inforced concrete arches.
...and, as I mentioned before in the train topic...
Water based track support locations: the opportunity to model tiny, man made inspection islands.

Also, with the 'northern island' lots being larger than illcom's, the opportunity for modellers to raise the ground level, in places, to meet the track is now a possibility, thereby doing away with any need for support.

On this subject, I was rather hoping that the train track would have crossed my illres_SE_10 lot closer to its centre for this very reason. Don't change it now!

Sorry for replying here (off topic), I just had to follow this post.

All I can say is, leave all options open and trust in the community.

This post has been edited by locO G on Thursday, Jul 20 2006, 23:39

[Jost_Vice]

I now can prelight



The process I do is: do a daylight system (with the neededs values)

then a IES sky and sun... with the illy' values.

I do it well?

[Cerbera]

QUOTE (illspirit @ Jul 20 2006, 22:53)

Sorry Cerb, didn't know that's what you meant. Putting both sides on embankments would be too much work, but, hopefully one side is good enough?

That embankment looks great, it's just like I imagined it. The smoothened curve is sexy, too.

It's a bit weird that the roof of the tunnel extends so far in front of the edge of the terrain, I'm guessing that detail isn't done yet? I think the tunnel should end in line with the terrain, sticking past it by only a small amount. Here's a modern example:

(Source: Rochester South & Horsted: Councillors' Activities.)

I agree that embanking the whole illURB stretch would be a crazy amount of work, so we we can keep the legs.

On-topic: Seems that the radiosity settings are become finalised, which is very cool. Would authors whose lots have the railway overhead be able to prelight them without there being noticable changes between the sections of track lit by different people? Or, will there need to be occassional MI-wide re-prelighting done by one person to ensure consistant lighting of the railway, roads, etc?

This post has been edited by Cerbera on Saturday, Jul 22 2006, 16:16

[illspirit]

[Mark]

Yum. Looking great! Gives so many possibilities to lot building too!

[aad]

@ Illspirit

that looks better then it was before with that cube ish like exit, entrance of the trail really nice.
Hope to see some trains moving allong the tracks within some weeks.

[DopestaR]

euhm guys a small question
I've prelighted myself for the first time
but dunno if its right or not
because the render looks much lighter then the perspective view in 3 ds max itself
so can you guys please tell me if i did it right

[Jost_Vice]

For me is same, in perspective there isn't shadows, but in the render look a lot of sexy.

I try one myself ingame and I dont see a big change, only some polys more dark than others... gforce, please, show your shadows pics. (I'm waiting..)

[Alexg]

I have used the Illspirit's settings but ingame it isn't perfect!

This is the scene, can someone take a look here? (Max 8)

DOWNLOAD SCENE

This post has been edited by Alexg on Thursday, Aug 24 2006, 12:13

[teun.steenbekkers]

Sorry for the bump, but I wanted to ask a question related to prelighting.

This radiosity stuff, do I actually need to click 'Start' or just 'Assign Vertex Colors' with the 'Radiosity, Render Direct Illumination' setting with 'Shadows'?

I'm kinda confused. I'm helping Bobesz out with prelighting the entire VC map, so I plan to import the entire first island, do that, then the second, prelight, then the island with the film studio, prelight, then gold island, etc. Is this a good way to do it? I did it before, but the wrong way. So I wanna be sure this time, as it takes friggin' long to prelight these huge IPLs.

[nitzkit]

hopefully someone will answer this....

Can I just use Ill spirit's devkit to pre-light all the stuff of Los Santos when it's complete? Using the radiosity thing? right?

I'm currently putting the SA map in the VC engine, and I was wondering If I have to light the objects as I go or can I just do it in one big shot using this method you guys are talking about?

[AleXXX]

illcom_c2_r2 max r7 radiosity pre-light test:

It's correct?

[aad]

After trying a lot of settings this one really is close to the gta-sa standard and maybe even looking a litle bit better,

just for showing here's and example,



to bad it takes a lot of memory and time to get a full lighted scene.