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New buildings (Europe) almost ready

gius

gius

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Hi to all,

I'm preparing a new set of buildings for North central and eastern Europe for both big and middle cities, they are now multilod - bad Lods - but not destroyable. If you are interested i can publish here a beta version. Here are some screenshots:

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To Rami: Andrew, are you interested to them for your next campaign??
 
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Gius,

Unfortunately, aside from Arnhem, all the GSL scenery for the 20th Fighter Group is completed now. Thanks though!
 
Well, well...i see you've taken "the project" to another level Gius :victorious:...Good show! Now, how about plugging these lovelies into new frame-friendly versions of your Berlin and Hamburg works, eh?

:applouse:
 
Good work Gius - they look great. :applause:

I would be interested in a beta version.

One piece of infrastructure which seems to be lacking in CFS 2 is a decent size stone bridge, similar to the ones over the Seine in Paris or the old London Bridge (which is now in Arizona).

Thanks a lot,

Kevin
 
Thanks my friends,
now i'm improving Lods to get better appearance and better frames.
Until 2-3 days i've finished.
to Blood Hawk: can i PM you in order to send half of the finished products? so we can make both damaged models and Dps and exchange impressions, opinions and ideas?
to Kdriver: can you send me a picture of what kind of bridge do you want? Perhaps i can help...
Bye to all
Gius
 
gius said:
Thanks my friends,
now i'm improving Lods to get better appearance and better frames.
Until 2-3 days i've finished.
to Blood Hawk: can i PM you in order to send half of the finished products? so we can make both damaged models and Dps and exchange impressions, opinions and ideas?
to Kdriver: can you send me a picture of what kind of bridge do you want? Perhaps i can help...
Bye to all
Gius
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Gius,

I'm more than willing to help. my scedual is changing and I should have some extra time here and there. Some of the buildsings I see could be easily made damagable just by having the same model with different textures.

Are you using Allen's bat file for compiling the bgls?

Check you PMs I'm sending you my email.

Till later,
John
 
kdriver said:
...One piece of infrastructure which seems to be lacking in CFS 2 is a decent size stone bridge, similar to the ones over the Seine in Paris or the old London Bridge (which is now in Arizona).

Thanks a lot,

Kevin
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HEAR! HEAR! :encouragement: :triumphant:

If I may add, to be a real interesting GSL scenery object it should also be available in different length sections as Wolfi did with his iron bridge object. Better yet, with not only a 50 and a 100m section, but also a shorter 25m and a longer 200m section, together with separate access ramps, tall enough to let barges and river boats sailing under its arches.

I also think that, in order to be an absolutely perfect scenery object, it should be available with three different textures, one for a dirt road, one for a paved road and one for a railroad.

How's that for a wish-list? :very_drunk:

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Hi Gius,

These are four of the River Seine bridges package for FS 2002 by Philippe Coutellier. They work in CFS 2 but when I converted them to library objects they vanished when you flew close to them.

Something along these lines would be good - especially with all the improvements KH mentioned above.

This is a wish-list and I realise it could turn into a big project so please don't feel obligated.

Cheers,

Kevin
 

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Hello guys,
still reworking the Lods; Blood Hawk: got the PM, i'll send you the files after the end of the operation; Kdriver: beautiful objects, they perfectly fit to Paris and Seine river, a curiosity: did you try to convert them throgh ModelConverterX?
Bye to all,
Gius
 
I appreciate it. Their is not enough building and land structures for my Eastern Front install. I know its meant for Europe in general. But I am upgrading my Eastern Front install right now.


Thank you!:applause:
 
gius said:
Hello guys,
still reworking the Lods; Blood Hawk: got the PM, i'll send you the files after the end of the operation; Kdriver: beautiful objects, they perfectly fit to Paris and Seine river, a curiosity: did you try to convert them throgh ModelConverterX?
Bye to all,
Gius
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I decompiled the .bgl and edited the .sca to make it a library object, then recompiled. The problem may have been that the particular .bgl I decompiled actually contained three bridges. Perhaps if I had have separated them, the disappearing act may not have occurred.

If you think it's worthwhile I could try and get permission from Philippe Coutellier.
 
kdriver said:
I decompiled the .bgl and edited the .sca to make it a library object, then recompiled. The problem may have been that the particular .bgl I decompiled actually contained three bridges. Perhaps if I had have separated them, the disappearing act may not have occurred.

If you think it's worthwhile I could try and get permission from Philippe Coutellier.
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Seeing how we don't have them I think it couldn't hurt to get perms. see if you can get a source file or permission to make it destroyable.

If not we could use it as a template to make a new model.

I agree with Kelti on making longer and shorter sections.

Let me know if you want to do the damage models.
 
miamieagle said:
I appreciate it. Their is not enough building and land structures for my Eastern Front install. I know its meant for Europe in general. But I am upgrading my Eastern Front install right now.


Thank you!:applause:
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Thanks to you, Miami.
 
Blood_Hawk23 said:
Seeing how we don't have them I think it couldn't hurt to get perms. see if you can get a source file or permission to make it destroyable.

If not we could use it as a template to make a new model.

I agree with Kelti on making longer and shorter sections.

Let me know if you want to do the damage models.
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Blood Hawk,
i totally agree with you. In any case we could use this models to make new ones in Gmax or Sketchup.
Bye,
Gius
 
kdriver said:
Hi Gius,

These are four of the River Seine bridges package for FS 2002 by Philippe Coutellier. They work in CFS 2 but when I converted them to library objects they vanished when you flew close to them.

Something along these lines would be good - especially with all the improvements KH mentioned above.

This is a wish-list and I realise it could turn into a big project so please don't feel obligated.

Cheers,

Kevin
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Hi guys!

I have this pack too. It matches the stock CFS2 scenery, but it becomes a problem with SdC's ETO rivers and coastlines, and gets worse with Rhumba's corrected mesh and watermasks.

I noticed the disappearance, as well. This is a clear symptom of the object-size bug discovered by Pen32Win in Gary20's RAF buildings, which led Pen to rework their polygons and scale dimensions. If you remember his readme and the discussion that went on, when he announced the refurbish projects for Gary20's library, this bug also causes a significant degradation in fps performance, with rockets and bullets passing through without causing any damage, as if they were "ghost" objects. Another tale-telling symptom happens when standing on the ground and panning the view around: the faulty building/object disappears slightly before it should leave the screen either to the right or the left.

A word of advice to you Gius, Kdriver and Blood_Hawk23, then: if you are thinking to utilise this Paris bridge library to develop new bridge objects, watch out not to duplicate this nasty bug, which hides very well within a given scenery object and it can only be detected by the disappearence-when-close and the apparent impossibility to damage the object.

Ever since I started doing gsl work in the attempt to enhance the looks of available sceneries, I discovered that there are other popular object libraries out there with the same bug. One of them is Xaveirb2's Japanese/ETO hangars and some of his warehouses.
Gius, you might want to check before release your new ETO city objects as well, against the possible presence of this bug.

I always thought that since we are at it, we might as well try to do things in a way that an upgrade or correction at a later stage will not be necessary. :encouragement:

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Paris Bridges

Hey All,

Kdriver sent me the bridges. First most of these have 3 to 4 bridges per bgl. it appears they are in the correct layout to span the river in multiple locations. So what I need to know is which would we like to create. Which bridges were around in WWI or WWII.

I'll try to get some pics so everyone can see.

but here are the areas:

Alma - two bridges
Austerlitz - three bridges
Concorde - three bridges
Grenelle - three bridges
Iena - one bridge (possibly the one we want)
Invalides - two bridges
Neuf - three bridges
St Louis - five bridges
St Michel - four bridges
Tournelle - three bridges

each area has different ones so I'm not sure which are the best. a few are more moden which I can easily see. Others I'm not sure of. so if anyone can get a little info on the history of them. For now I'll take the single and see what it looks like in gmax and see if I can create a new one.

Till Later,
John
 
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