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Z-trooper wrote:Ok. I'm pretty new to this modelling thing but we have to learn at some point right?

Let me see if I got this right:

The only things I should make are the unique stuff like the nails and the text, for the wooden part I should use vbf2 texture pallets?

if that is correct, I know very little of how to proceed. I can imagine I sould open the BF editor
But how to save my 3ds max model and import it into the editor, along with saving the unique texture bits and loading them in aswell - I have no idea on how get start. Not even thinking about how to edit it when I finally get that done.

I guess I should just spend some time searching the web for tutorials, reading them, but that will have to wait a bit cause its getting late now.

Anyway, thanks for spotting my errors at this stage. I could just imagine I had finished it and then got shot to pieces
I'm just trying to learn, thats all.

ZZEZ wrote:Make sure the model is only 1 item, then clone it 3 times with the following names - keep them at same place as original
col0 col1 col2
Select everything, the sign & cols, bf utilities in max -> bf2 utilities, select static object from the dropdown menu, click on run.
Now while everything is still selected, run the exporter, assign it a folder[make sure you create it before actually exporting] and export.

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'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;507389']well really you should try and make your col meshes as low detail as possible. so just cloning the LOD0 3 times aint the best idea most of the time.

best thing for this, col0 for this object should just be a clone on the lod0, then col1 and col2 I would probaly just make as a triangle, pointing downwards so like this

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Then you have the sign in the middle of that

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:I wouldn't worrie about cols for now, just get the object looking nice, low poly and detail but still looking gd etc.

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;507536']http://bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5980

download the bf2 3dsmax tools first before you start to do anything and install them.

then from there you can use the right kind of material things. you will want to use bf2staticmesh think its called.

then brows though the BF2 static textuer pallets and look for a wood textuer that will suit your sign.

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;508675']materials are part of the cols

heres some tuts:

http://synthesisgraphics.com/tutorials/ ... meshes.htm

http://bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4900

http://bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6595 (missing images but was the first one i did)

http://bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4556 (this is for a vehicle, but you need to apply this kinda unwrapping to statics)

http://bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9648 (how to setup your 3dsmax tools)

http://files.filefront.com/tutorial+bf2 ... einfo.html (video tut)

that should do u for now.

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:I help many bf2 modders, directly or indirectly (though tuts etc ive done) as they have helped me (cos EA/DICE never/hardly delivered the help they promised). Depends what kinda mood im in to be honest

+ there is always the potential of you becoming the next matt.b

Z-trooper wrote:lol, I have no idea who matt.b is but I'll sure try to get good - and hopefully fast too

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;508773']matt.b, aka [R-DEV]matt.b is the guy who dose 90% of the statics for pr and has a huge amount of talent

EDIT: speaking of which he did a tut on his stuff, more showing the layout of one of his statics in a scene

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/tutori ... ml?t=28554

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:looks pretty good, thou I dont think the plank is quite right, maybe for the stem but for the main sign part maybe use something like ply wood?

Col looks good, col 1 and col 2 should be that triangle, but for col 0 just clone the object as it will look very odd bullets hitting stuff in mid air, which should go though and also bad for gameplay

Also need to find a way to get the wrighting on the sign, think the only way for that is to get a new colour texture in, but just use a wood detail thou better ask matt.b or someone else about that one