Just finished a new world in Truespace

Post by **greypiffle** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:14 pm

here is it - hope you like it.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v623/gre...=1168229584.pbw

Post by **Kedri** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:41 am

Wow. Looks cool!

What's Truespace?

Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:28 pm

Greypiffle:

I like the rugged terrain rising from the calm waters. It looks like you've left some spaces for structures to be built; can't wait to see what they'll be!

Would you like to have your own journal forum within the Development Journals section? You can post your progress there, even while developing it within TrueSpace. You could also have a moderator move this post over to your journal forum. Just PM one of our mods, like J'anim Paedet.

Post by **greypiffle** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:35 pm

Truespace is the most intutive 3-D program I have ever encountered.
http://www.caligari.com/ is thier main page
http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace...asp?Cate=BIntro
is thier intro to the main program - a bit pricy, but worth it.
http://www.caligari.com/gamespace/
Is thier Gamespace - much more affordable for the general person
they currently allow modeling for HalfLife, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003, and some other ones

I would like a plugin for Uru, but it's a bit difficult to get so far, because I need the documentation for it all.

Once I have that, I can port everything over. Unless I get a collabrator to help me out with the blender interface. Which I find difficult.

the information of writing plugins for Truespace and Gamespace can be found here:
http://www.caligari.com/download/tsx.asp?Cate=DTSX
and
http://www.caligari.com/gamespace/sdk.asp

Admin note: moved to journal by request of author

Post by **greypiffle** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:01 am

Thanks Robert for the sugestion. It's nice to have a space to show off in.

Post by **Branan** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:54 am

I believe Blender has a truespace importer, so I'd say, if you like Truespace, your workflow will probably look like this for a while:

Model main terrain / structures : Truespace
Add Functionality stuff (buttons, moving stuff, etc) : Blender
Export to URU : Blender

Once the Blender plugin supports for than the 20% (I made that number up, BTW) or so of the URU stuff that it supports now, someone might start working on other plugins. For now, you'll have to deal with Blender at some point, or join forces with someone else to do the Blender stuff for you.

Post by **greypiffle** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:23 pm

OK - I've added a couple of buildings. a temple and a kind of cube-hut thingy
slideshow 2

Hope you like it so far.

I just wish I could animate the water - it took over three hours to get that texture.

Post by **Drakmyth** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:35 pm

Looking great. Love that water texture! Are these shots being taken in trueSpace, Blender or Uru?

Post by **J'anim Paedet** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:55 pm

Good work! I particularly like the water texture and those pillars in the first shot -- very high-detail stuff!
I really can't wait to see your next installment.

Post by **greypiffle** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:40 am

Until I figure a way to port to Uru, the shots are being taken form 7 cameras in TrueSpace.

I've added 3 towers but you have to wait until later on Sunday to see them. It's 3:30am for me now, and I gotta get some sleep.

I'm thinking that you wiould have to climb the towers and hit a switch or pull a lever to get to the building all by itslef on that smaller island...
Maybe raise bridge pieces?

EDIT: couldn't resist so it's 4am.. who cares?
Updated Slideshow