Historic Castles- update
by wiseman2 · 12/14/2008 (5:21 pm) · 3 comments
been doing lots of work lately on my current project....Modular and Historic Castles...
I'm putting together these Castles based off of lots of research....I picked up several books that had tons of info on actual castle layouts and blueprints....I've started working mainly on the outer curtain walls and towers. I'm currently moving on to the inner and outer gatehouses. an then will move on to the inner curtain and inner towers....after that the barracks, apartments, church and other main inner buildings....And lastly I'll get to all of the craftsman/ townspeople bldgs...
Constructor hasn't made things easy... I love working in it, but some times it can be temperamental about exporting to dif....if you look at my screen shots, you may notice some missing brushes.... I've figured out most of these, but occasionally there has been some that I haven't quite gotten.

Yesterday and today I started out reworking my textures and making normal maps for the bricks mainly.I figure that I need to get a couple more of them to have a bit more variety in them to start with. Anyway I'm still playing with the specular values since the rock looks a little too metallic in my opinion.I'll get it though......
I was also wondering if anyone knows a way to add in any other texture mapping ...like occlusion or specular...I looked through the TDN but didn't see any other info except the specular settings..no real info on adding any maps except normal / bump....
I've also got a couple of side projects in the works that keep me busy, but most of my effort is going into the castles..I would have been much further along with this whole package, but I caught what is called a "root kit"...pretty nasty little bugger that downloaded upwards of 300 worms / trojans/ and other misc viruses many of which were variants of bagel32.... because of it I couldn't work on my system at all for 2 weeks. First I lost all access to my WIFI since it removed all the registry information to the 3 services necessary for it from my registry , then it shutdown my virus protection and my firewall software, and then removed the exe file information from windows so that anything I tried to install windows kept telling me that exe files weren't valid win32 applications.....
if it wasn't for online free virus scans and an old ethernet cable and lots of patience I would have lost everything...I use my laptop for work as well and couldn't hook up into my work server for fear of spreading my issues to them...so anyway I also lost most of my work for 2 weeks also...
a couple of major pieces of wisdom came from this...never believe after 1 scan that the virus is gone, and if 1 virus leads to another and another start looking for something else...do lots of research and don't give up.
I'm putting together these Castles based off of lots of research....I picked up several books that had tons of info on actual castle layouts and blueprints....I've started working mainly on the outer curtain walls and towers. I'm currently moving on to the inner and outer gatehouses. an then will move on to the inner curtain and inner towers....after that the barracks, apartments, church and other main inner buildings....And lastly I'll get to all of the craftsman/ townspeople bldgs...
Constructor hasn't made things easy... I love working in it, but some times it can be temperamental about exporting to dif....if you look at my screen shots, you may notice some missing brushes.... I've figured out most of these, but occasionally there has been some that I haven't quite gotten.

Yesterday and today I started out reworking my textures and making normal maps for the bricks mainly.I figure that I need to get a couple more of them to have a bit more variety in them to start with. Anyway I'm still playing with the specular values since the rock looks a little too metallic in my opinion.I'll get it though......I was also wondering if anyone knows a way to add in any other texture mapping ...like occlusion or specular...I looked through the TDN but didn't see any other info except the specular settings..no real info on adding any maps except normal / bump....
I've also got a couple of side projects in the works that keep me busy, but most of my effort is going into the castles..I would have been much further along with this whole package, but I caught what is called a "root kit"...pretty nasty little bugger that downloaded upwards of 300 worms / trojans/ and other misc viruses many of which were variants of bagel32.... because of it I couldn't work on my system at all for 2 weeks. First I lost all access to my WIFI since it removed all the registry information to the 3 services necessary for it from my registry , then it shutdown my virus protection and my firewall software, and then removed the exe file information from windows so that anything I tried to install windows kept telling me that exe files weren't valid win32 applications.....
if it wasn't for online free virus scans and an old ethernet cable and lots of patience I would have lost everything...I use my laptop for work as well and couldn't hook up into my work server for fear of spreading my issues to them...so anyway I also lost most of my work for 2 weeks also...
a couple of major pieces of wisdom came from this...never believe after 1 scan that the virus is gone, and if 1 virus leads to another and another start looking for something else...do lots of research and don't give up.
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#2
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12/15/2008 (4:38 am)
You have my sympathies for your computer problems - must be a real kicker knowing all that is made by some jerk. If only it was possible to find these people and forcibly install a widescreen monitor in them ... sideways...:)
#3
12/15/2008 (8:35 am)
Rgr that Steve, this sounds like the kind of psionic power abuse my players used to throw at me in D&D games ;)
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