11 Dias a Ixtlan: Dia 3

Dia Tres: Procesar los Templos

Dia Tres! Spent most of today in 3DS Max exporting Pyramids into Torque-ready shapes. I use Gasman's 'DoIt' plugin for setting up .dts models and have to say I don't know how I worked in torque all those years without it [oh, right, I only used OSX...]. I had issues getting the textures to map properly using the Collada format, so went back to the OG method of exporting as Torque DTS shapes.



Here's a building in Max:






Once I had the models ready, I imported them into my terrain test level to check the texturing. While I was at it, I setup a basic set of forest brushes. Setting my modded brush size to 256, and varying the brushes to roughly correspond to the procedural texture placement, I had the test level covered in fauna in the time it took to wait for the tea to brew:



Templo del Sol:




Here's a Ball base in the untextured level with more cliffs in the background:



Once the shapes were in place, a quick test of Walkabout's navigation gui:



...the temptation to start piling on extra shapes is great, but for now I'll stay focused on my timeline...

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