Tutorial - How To Make New FO2 Tiles

[Sirren67]

Thanks for the info, I downloaded Maya PLE, but I hadn't the time to look into it yet.
And many, MANY thanks for posting my picture
See you soon!

 

[Rob Stroker]

Just a suggestion - why not use some tiles from DiabloII - I will admit I know nothing about how much work would be involved in converting them to a Fallout format - but here's a site that lists most if not all - http://www.planetdiablo.com/wot/index.htm - I'm sure some might be useful, say from ActII?

they should work if the angle matches and a lot of them can be used.

 

[Wild_qwerty]

I've just uploaded the Trees I made for FIFE to NMA so you can use them in your mods, hopefully an admin will verify the upload soon

 

[Chris Parks]

Can anybody give me some advice in how to use the tile editor?

Every time I paste it onto the picture I want to make into tiles, it pastes everything. So I get my picture in the background, the blue and the white sections.

I have a load of tiles I want to make. can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

EDIT

OOPS! No worries...I've worked it out now...

 

[Continuum]

@ Wild Qwerty
Your walls are 3d renders or did you paint them in 2d?

 

[Wild_qwerty]

All 2d

I used gimp to make a texture of concrete or what ever, then adjusted the brightness to have three different light levels. Then I just copied and pasted my templates of the three different light level textures, then stuck all 3 light levels together.

I think I wrote a tutorial somewhere, maybe on the FIFE wiki website.

*EDIT*
Go here to look at the full tutorial

http://wiki.fifengine.de/index.php?title=Tutorial_Walls

 

[Continuum]

All 2d

Thanks for the answer.

Anyway, I'm working on the walls rendered in 3d (based on your templates). So far are almost identical:

If everything will go well new wall sets should appear (with windows, etc.).

Go here to look at the full tutorial

http://wiki.fifengine.de/index.php?title=Tutorial_Walls

I've seen this already

 

[Wild_qwerty]

Sounds good to me. Any chance of releasing the walls you ahve made as an *.obj file so it can be used as a template for other people to make walls?

 

[Continuum]

Sounds good to me.

Yeah, it's much more easier and faster to create wall in 3d than painting in 2d. Every "segment" will be a separated object and by using snap tool you can easily add them.

Any chance of releasing the walls you ahve made as an *.obj file so it can be used as a template for other people to make walls?

First I must compare my walls with original ones (to be sure that everything is ok ), next I must find someone who will test them with Mapper. If everything will be ok, I could release base geometry, but there will be one problem: differences between 3d modeling programs. Even if you import the geometry you'll get different size than should be. I've adjusted size of the wall by changing dimension of the render / comparing in Photoshop your templates with my images. But if want to try this method - no problem, I'll release the geometry in .obj format (of course when everything will be finished ).

BTW: Your templates aren't "ideal", right?

 

[Wild_qwerty]

The templates are just a the vault walls with the colours changed out.

 

[Continuum]

Ok, I've started "cut process" of the geometry based on Enclave walls:

Pete was right - pixels are bad!

 

[Continuum]

*bump*

I want to make roof for the wall. Maybe there's some "automatic" process instead of adjusting frame(s) offset manually

Or maybe each roof has the same frame(s) offset?

 

[lisac2k]

Well, you could load a few of the roof tiles into FRM Animator and check it out yourself, I guess... I believe all tiles (ground and roof) do have the same offset values, but I'm not 100% sure.

EDIT: just did a fast check and it's true, all tiles have the same offsets (frames=0,0 and frame=0,0 - both of them). The tiles with transparent parts might look like out of place, don't let that confuse you. Hope this helps.

 

[Continuum]

EDIT: just did a fast check and it's true, all tiles have the same offsets (frames=0,0 and frame=0,0 - both of them). The tiles with transparent parts might look like out of place, don't let that confuse you. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the tip

I have another question. I'm not familiar with the Mapper, so I'll use the screenshot as help.



Does the wall look correctly (four segments are missing and I already used wall blockers)? If so, any other tests are needed?

Thanks in advance.

 

[lisac2k]

It looks marvelous. Just give it a form and a texture and that's it, superb job!

 

[Continuum]

If someone is interested in creating new walls I can upload template with camera coordinates, so you should be able to get the same results as I.

Process is little a bit complicated, but possible:

(screenshot from wooden wall tests)

 

[Chris Parks]

Continuum, those walls look amazing!!

Did you do those?

 

[Continuum]

Yes, wall was created in 3d by me.

I finished template more than a month ago and I've started work on wooden wall, but I didn't have any ideas how to detailed it. The worst thing is when you don't know what you want to model...


Here's fully finished template:



Based on it you can create any wall you want.

 

[lisac2k]

Yep, the new walls look really nice, good job Cont!

They're just a way too illuminated for the dark fallout atmosphere... But that can be fixed, I guess.

 

[Demonslayer]

They're just a way too illuminated for the dark fallout atmosphere... But that can be fixed, I guess.

Yep, that was what i was thinking about.
They need to look old and a window some tweaking too. Other than that looks sweet.