Buddybuds Expansive Attempts at Anything & Everything.

dedgren · January 21, 2009, 12:05:10 PM

I haven't exactly been pounding on your beta, Bud- but the general stuff I've done with it seems very solid. Nothing anomalous yet, in other words. I'll keep you posted.

On another note, you are invited to join the RAM Team. You find that if if you head over to that area of the forums, you might see some interesting new stuff. The team thinks your work would be a perfect fit, and we hope to see you over there soon.

David

sithlrd98 · January 22, 2009, 05:53:29 PM

Congrats on the RAM team! I've been messing around with the beta and haven't run into any problems. Of course , since you know what your doing (unlike me

) , should I be surprised? Oh , and that ramp is looking great...just wish it wasn't such a pain!

Jayson

buddybud · January 23, 2009, 05:21:58 PM

just an update. i've managed to finish changing all the ramp configurations. I will use the same models for 1 ways. Avenues won't be touched only ave/nonintersection/elhiway will be added.

anyways here's the picture. i essentially cloned the wanted groups within the original models. Rather mundane but worth the effort. i just have to set up the t21's now. i didn't plan on doing the ground highway but the models are almost identical so i thought why not.

new beta for highways in a couple days most likely.

edit...i might add that if anyone has ideas on if these should be made into intersictions kinda like the one in the bottom right i'm all ears. Textures can easily be changed and props added....etc. i myself just want to focus on getting the base mod together but from there the possibilities are quite large.

bud

sithlrd98 · January 23, 2009, 05:37:27 PM

Honestly , I think intersections would be the best...but that's just me

Jayson

buddybud · January 23, 2009, 05:45:11 PM

i would agree....

getting to those files by the way

lol

Bud....

honestly.....heh

sithlrd98 · January 23, 2009, 06:06:50 PM

Take your time , its not like you're busy or anything

Thanks again

Jayson

girlfromverona · January 23, 2009, 06:09:40 PM

I just downloaded the beta on the previous page - looking forward to trying it out! You are doing some excellent work here.

JoeST · January 24, 2009, 02:31:18 AM

I agree the blank intersection look better, thanks for doing this

Joe

metarvo · January 24, 2009, 05:33:40 AM

I would say that the intersection looks better. IMHO, it is more realistic. Keep up the good work, Bud.

buddybud · January 24, 2009, 04:21:31 PM

thanks guys....

well this is the real deal. After much trouble i got it all working. If you look at the high wealth sidewalk under the highway you'll notice its missing. There was no way to place wealth next to it to trigger it. I solved this by using overhanging sidewalk s3d props as seen for the low wealth intersection. This means i can trigger all situations except for where people use a cross intersection directly next to these intersection. I think i could be done with rul files and also a little diagonal transit enabled lot could be plunked down. But whatever it still works for everything else. I must say it looks much more fluid and realistic...though minor i am quite content. Changing the in game models was a nightmare and after this i doubt if i'll do it again. I split the models into network tile and ramps. The ramps patched the original ramps and the network tile was turned into a prop and place via a t21. Making the flips were a nightmare to figure out. If you simply invert a model it will not show up. you have to then flip all the triangles. Once i figured that out it worked smoothly enough. I like the intersection though i think i need dave to do proper textures......nudge nudge..0x8A3EA8AE simcity2.dat...nudge.

Anyways i got some stuff to do stuff to.

bud.

Andreas · January 24, 2009, 05:08:40 PM

Wow, that looks splendid! I can imagine the amount of work that went into those, but the result surely paid off! Now you only need to adjust the color shift between the textured network and the S3D models (ebina did that for the in-game stuff, so he might be the one who can help you best).

deathtopumpkins · January 24, 2009, 05:47:45 PM

Whoa! That is looking GREAT bud! Lots of groundbreaking stuff going on lately.

sithlrd98 · January 24, 2009, 06:03:32 PM

You have been busy the last 24 hours , haven't you? Please tell me you are backing up , and backing up the back-ups and , well you get the idea!

Jayson

buddybud · January 27, 2009, 05:04:57 PM

thanks sithird...ill remember

thanx also deathtopumkins

Thanx again andreas. Just finding out about that now.

hey guys.

been busy this last week...got a little visual update. One good thing is that with the exception of a couple flips all the nam on/off ramps just worked.....nothing needed to be done. So here's where it stands. This portion of my mod has turned from underpasses to ramps/underpasses, just because their models work together, leading me to either change both or none.

the diagonals aren't truely slope conforming yet but thats to much work at the moment. As for the nam aspect i decided to do the last two remaing off ramps. i took the liberty of changing the texture also. I've gotten better at making them. I like the configuration myself. Any ideas' ?

To everyone i promised stuff for, i'm getting on that now.

Cheers.

Bud.

swat-medic · January 27, 2009, 05:07:08 PM

Great update buddybud, great progress!

sithlrd98 · January 27, 2009, 05:34:29 PM

You definitely are crossing into some excellent upgrades!

Not too sure about the last 2 pics , I like the arrows but the road looks a little odd to me. As far as the color shift , if I am understanding correctly, you might want to run the textures through photoshop , using color match and settling on a value between 60 and 70 ...that's how I did the road and avenue curves. That was the only way I knew of to compensate , but I'm sure there are others.
Looking forward to a beta

Jayson

buddybud · January 27, 2009, 06:17:09 PM

Quote from: sithlrd98 on January 27, 2009, 05:34:29 PM
Not too sure about the last 2 pics , I like the arrows but the road looks a little odd to me.

Jayson

thanx for the color info.

post a better 1 tile solution for this intersection and i'll be glad to use it. I can add it in about 2 min. Infact a texture patch could be used to alter it either back to the default or to to something different, or it's texture id's could be altered directly.

bud

JoeST · January 27, 2009, 10:41:46 PM

that is AWESOME

maybe this should be integrated with the NAM?

Joe

CabraBuitre · January 27, 2009, 11:52:53 PM

Great work

Howling · January 31, 2009, 01:02:30 PM

Hey Buddybud,

Your El-Rail mod is looking incredibly fantastic! What happened to it? A few pages back... gone are the green El-Rails :| Not that the rest isn't awesome

I couldn't find a reason in the posts though.

The El-Rails are incredibly good in an urban environment - a dense environment at that.