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Any free examples of bldgs? (Im looking for a Mansion building)

by John Klimek · in Artist Corner · 05/05/2006 (12:50 pm) · 3 replies

I'm looking to create a mansion type of building for a clue-like game for about 4 to 12 players. The mansion will need to be fairly large but not huge, and will be about 90% of the entire mission (there will be a little outside area outside of the mansion but that's it).

Does anybody have any examples of this? Do any free maps/interiors exist for this?

Thanks,
John
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
05/05/2006 (1:54 pm)
3DRT has a fun ghost-mansion model.

It is, however, only the exterior. And probably a bit spendy for your blood. But it is nice (their urban packs are pretty nice, too). You can check renderosity and turbo squid as well. Not free, but they're there.

I would actually recommend creating it on paper and then prototyping it for gameplay. Then, once you have it prototyped and working, contract an artist to make a high-quality, detailed mansion. It'll be much better than trying to fit your game idea to a piece of pre-made content.

Torque Owner John Klimek
#2
05/05/2006 (2:06 pm)
Yeah, $60 is a bit too much for me to spend right now...

I'd be willing to purchase content packs (for household items and such) but I'm having tons of problems getting ANY .3DS/.MAX model into Torque with it's texture/material (See here: http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=43834)

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
05/05/2006 (3:17 pm)
I've answered in several of your other posts, but there are a number of problems with using models that were never meant for 3D real-time gaming. You are running into a number of them, but the most significant is experience with 3D software.

I would still recommend fleshing out the gameplay and prototyping with programmer art first and then concentrating on making it look pretty.