Questor opened this issue on Dec 18, 2002 ยท 46 posts
Questor posted Wed, 18 December 2002 at 6:24 PM
Thanks everyone. Chuck: I must have missed those. I have the city blocks but don't recall a spaceship. Sounds like I missed something impressive. Shogakusha: Thanks. Long time no see, how are you? Pokeydots: The logic there is to conserve memory. I know what it's like having a low ram system and trying to load the millenium couple along with a full scale prop, so my intention from the beginning was to build the house on a room by room basis. For obvious reasons the garage and store will be two pieces - hall and garage but that's the largest. Nothing could be worse than having to load the second story just for a ceiling. The living area is the only possible exception to this in that it is a two storey room. I'm not sure at this time whether to leave that as a large room, or give two options on it. One large room, and one as two rooms (upper and lower). Still fiddling with that idea. Maclean: Hehe, Sorry to scare you old chap. But don't worry I wouldn't intentionally take off after one of your projects. I enjoy what you do far too much. If this particular project proves popular then I'll be looking at making others in a similar fashion. I have the plans laid out for a number of properties including a shopping mall, factory and hotel. We'll see whether they're worth doing. :) DaveSo: So far it's taken 10 days to get to the above condition. That's laying the plan, raising the walls and partitions, making doors, windows, stairs, rails, bannisters and the arches/collumns. A day has been spent modelling and placing the lights and a day cutting the mesh into room segments. This is the second week of development so far and there's still some basic work to do before I export this into Poser and map it. At that point the two ladies mentioned above get the thing for texturing and I start work on other items like furnishings. The kitchen will come fully equipped as will the bathrooms. Other rooms will have basic furniture made for them. I figure at the end of the project there'll be between 4 and 6 weeks of work in it just for me and however long it takes the girls to texture it. And yes, I love modelling. It keeps me off the streets and being a danger to the general public, keeps my computer busy (justifying the cost of the thing) and gives me a great deal of pleasure when a project grows and completes.