Support Pillar

[Acumen]

K, between the real work with the panels i just wanted to pop in with a rather simple support pillar. since i decided to to another scene where i can put my model set in, it's just devtextured workspace for now :)

Download:
http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillar3.rar

http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillar3_ingame.jpg

[Rexy]

Those look great!

[StoneFrog]

Beautiful! Be nice if you could make them in a variety of different sizes, but in the meantime, these are great.

[Micnax]

Very useful.

Could you make sizes in 128 and 512? :3

[Owlruler]

hmmm, why is it pillar 3?
Where are pillars 1 and 2?!

[SiniStarR]

thanks for the model!

[uma plata]

Money

[Void]

Sexy

moar heights pl0x

[SuperNerd]

Sexy

moar heights pl0x

QFT/This

[Acumen]

ah, you people and your various heights !! :D
yes, yes i will do them in 128, 256 and 512 in the near future (valve time)

it's pillar3 because i made two other pillar models before while working on some items for a buddy of mine. like i said, i have to really update my folder structure. it all started with me messing around with untextured models i wanted to compile on my own and now i have one giant folder with all the models in it - some of them compiled, some not even uv'ed, and so on......
pretty messy person :D

but i got to be honest. your positive feedback got me really back into the modding/modeling thing again. cause now i see, that when i texture my models and compile them, people actually get to use them.
and hopefully i get to see my models ingame in maps in the future - at least that's what i hope - and i hope people contact me to show me their work :D

[Psy]

Make a 320 version too. :)

[Acumen]

k, there goes pillar - 128 units:

Download:
http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillar3_128.rar

http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillar3_128_ingame.jpg

[Void]

http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/fuckyou.gif

[SuperNerd]

As Void said:
http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/fuckyou.gif

Any other sizes planned?

[Ninjilla]

You rock, hard.

[Radaka]

I approve highly of these. :)

[Acumen]

well i decided i'd do all the versions you wished for ;)

yesterday i finished pillar with 256 units, but i decided i won't post every single finished model but wait for tonight when i hopefully have the 512 and 320 one finished as well.

so there will be 128, 256, 288, 320 and 512 units pillars in the end.

[owly-oop]

192 plox

[Void]

64 or 96? Maybe? For those really small things that still need support?

[Acumen]

meh, you people sure know how to challenge me :D

edit: man, i can tell you, these non square uvmaps are a true nightmare :D
now i decided to finally make my own checkermaps for these ratios !!!

[Void]

http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/3.gif

[Acumen]

k, so i was experimenting a lot with the rendering and painting techniques on this one and ended up with 3 color schemes. since i decided i might do a 2 skins versions of these pillars i wanted to know, which color would you prefer for mapping ? i decided on a grey version (color 1) and a red-brown version. do you guys prefer the lighter color 2 or the darker color 3 ?

[Psy]

Why not just give the model all of the textures?

[Acumen]

cause it will save me 7-8 texturemakings :D

edit: uh, sry, i forgot to attach the pic:
http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillar3_ingame_colors.jpg

[Void]

http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/w00t.gif

[The Political Gamer]

http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/w00t.gifVoid were are you getting this from? SA or Facepunch?

[Ganonmaster]

Void were are you getting this from? SA or Facepunch?

If you'd check the image, you could see it's from Facepunch.

Anyway, great models.

[Void]

Void were are you getting this from? SA or Facepunch?

Facepunch, stolen from SomethingAwful.

[SuperNerd]

the pic:
http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillar3_ingame_colors.jpg

All the colours look good.
Colour1 = Blu
Colour2 = Neutral
Colour3 = Red

Is that how you're doing it?

[pl]

Wow, these pillars do look great and fit the TF2 style perfectly :D

I would use them if I was making an indoor map, but at the moment I'm not.

[Acumen]

alright you guys, finished the pillar stuff, finally.
In this archive there are 5 custom support pillar models
included (sized 128, 256, 288, 320 and 512 units).
unfortunately, i didn't do the totally small sizes (64, 96) but i might add them later on, i just like to do some other models now. working on a large drill and whatnot ;)

Download:
http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2101

Screenshot:
http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillars_ingame.jpg

[SiniStarR]

ill be using, thanks for the dll

[Rexy]

Those are great! Thanks for sharing.

[Acumen]

thanks guys ! :)
i made a better overview so one can see all the color and height variations at once :)

http://acumen-design.de/projects/show/pillars_variations_overview.jpg