I just stumbled across this add-on for Blender. This is going to be so useful! I downloaded the free version to play with.

http://arnaud.ile.nc/scg

Wow...that is COOL! Thanks! :)

Laurie

Yes, "cool" was the description that came to mind for me too!

I think I'm gonna have to get me some o that :P LOL

Laurie

Thanks for the heads up on that one. Very useful indeed... Cool!!!

Yes very cool, I'm going to buy it.

Happy New Year to you all

dead link...

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But it's not a dead link. ???

Laurie

Quote - dead link...C~

I've just tried, no, it's not dead.

hmmmmmmmmm... http://arnaud.ile.nc/scg Oops! Google Chrome could not find arnaud.ile.ncMaybe because I'm usng Chrome?

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BTW - Hope everyone has a very Happy New Year's. I have a bottle of Captain Morgan's w/ my name on it. Methnks I shall indulge myself a wee bit...

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Quote - hmmmmmmmmm... http://arnaud.ile.nc/scg Oops! Google Chrome could not find arnaud.ile.ncMaybe because I'm usng Chrome?

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Perhaps. It's working in Firefox ;).

Laurie

Yes, it's working in Firefox & Internet Explorer.

It's working with Google Chrome (17.0.963.26).

Worked for me. Thanks for sharing. Very cool.

~Whoa~ Absent yourself from the forums for a whille, and look what you almost missed.

Thanks for the great link.  :-)

Dat's too cool! Anyone know if it works with cycles?

Quote - Dat's too cool! Anyone know if it works with cycles?

As long as it makes a mesh Jani, I don't see why it wouldn't ;). You'd have to use Cycles texures of course. I bet it looks awesome in Cycles...lol.

Laurie

Im still playing around with cycles...tried my little city but it all came out black, even tho I had a plane with emmisson's set for my lighting.... :'(

I'd try again tonight, but Im just too blasted tired....need toothpicks for me eyes LOL

not tried this tut yet but might help, it shows an older(or maybe the paid one I dunno) city generator

http://www.blendercycles.com/tutorials/city/

hope it helps

errrrrrrr my bad

the link to the cycles part is right at the bottom of that tut

(http://www.blendercycles.com/tutorials/city2/)

dont think I know enough about blenders node system to get any good results yet

but if/when I do I'll let you know

stock city gen does not apply mats

you have to make them .objs and apply mat zones

look to cgcookie for a video tut on cycles that actualy works

Im not anywhere near close to working with nodes yet..thought there would be a much simpler way to ligh in cycles since the city has a night time texture using emmissions..and I can't find anything regarding the city gen at night and cycles on cgcookie..

Oh well...gotta be a way for newbs like me LOL

Thanks all!

pic shows the city rendered (done nothing to that) and the (BI)nodes from one of the mats, not archivis lol but ok for a bit of background as is

I'm not too clever with the BI nodes yet an then cycles are slightly dif again, one day my little bits of knowledge will merge into understanding this proggy but theres so much to learn ;-)

Wow, it has improved when I first tried it.  I'll give it another shot again, thanks NT for the heads up.

city gen still doesnt apply actual materias to the meshes just basic zones for differentiation

the nodes control the materials

on www.cgcookie.com thet just released part 2 of a nodes tut that can be of some help but you realy need to reffer to the .pdf book i posted a while back for a better description

and witht the nodes what you have to watch is is the type that you add and the order that they are added in

in your post i see none are set to define the diffusion, AO, spec., or the normals even though they are checked