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Street Signs V.08 done.....and available

by wiseman2 · 05/09/2009 (3:47 am) · 0 comments

Even though the texture pack was finished a week ago it seems, we had some issues that had to be taken care of....All of which came about because of a little php setting that had eluded us for a while. But everything is taken care of now and working just fine.

www.mapvault.com/images/streetfiles1.jpgWe really hope that everyone can use the textures in this pack for their cities. It was some of the most monotonous art work I've ever done. The finished product has approx. 161 different textures that comprise street name textures in 6 different color schemes, and templates to help create your own textures. Textures are provide with / and without borders, with and without numbering schemes, and each texture has 26 different street names / numbers except the templates of course. The pack contains names for 156 different street names, and numbered street signs from 1-52 in 2 different directions. It basically goes like this...there are blank templates in each of the 4 directions in each color scheme, then there are templates for those who don't want the directions or numbering on the signs already.
www.mapvault.com/images/streetsigns2.jpgby using 1 texture to cover up to 26 different street names, signs can be made quickly without using lots of textures, reducing the footprint on video performance. After adjusting the scaling in constructor down to the size of the sign I made, I was able to create the few signs above in just a few minutes, and that was using several textures to show off some of the different color schemes. While staying in the same texture, I was able to make many signs very quickly. Make one sign and get everything adjusted. Then export. Adjust the texture over a little, and export another, and another.....

We chose not to include the general traffic / parking signs at this time, because we don't have nearly enough different textures to offer for that right now. We intend to release that as soon as we have just about every traffic / parking sign that we can think of.....I think we are probably coming close to about 40 different signs there, and are probably just over half way there. I'm probably going to release that pack to anyone who purchases this pack at a major discount to help business a little. (I really want to be able to afford to update to T3D, but my wife says i can't till I've made enough to cover the cost.)

Anyway I have lots of other projects planned and in the works, so we should have plenty coming out. *also I should be getting more color schemes out soon*
Thanks to all