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Winston-Salem downtown

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I re-did the low detail buildings I made for the Winston-Salem skyline. Added a little more detail, made them look a little better. This will go with my Smith Reynolds and NC general aviation airport pack:

winstondowntown1.jpg


winstondowntown2.jpg
 
Really nice buildings.
I think the reflexion is the default. There is another way to make custom reflexion so you can see the other buildings reflex on the glass.
 
jtanabodee said:
Really nice buildings.
I think the reflexion is the default. There is another way to make custom reflexion so you can see the other buildings reflex on the glass.
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You need to look closer! Notice the reflection in the "glass building" on the left side. It has a reflection of the foreground building with the domed roof! :eek:
 
Thanks for the kind words everybody!

And thunderbolt, no texture baking, but I would love to know how I could go about doing that?
 
Hey Jon,

I'm doing texture baking in 3ds Max 2009.
You have to texture your model nearly as usual.
The difference is that every face needs its own texture because two faces aren't lit the same way.
Now you have to set up the lightning.
I'm doing that with Vray's daylight (you may google that).
If you're feeling good with the lightning you have to "Render to texture", save the result as a bitmap and replace the source bitmap with the baked one.

As an example a nightmap I rendered for a project I'm working on:

T1_2.jpg


And some fine tutorials:

texture baking in general

texture baking for use in FSX

regards,
Lars

P.S.: You can also use Blender as a freeware alternative for texture baking!
 
Ah great! Thanks! :D

And that's a sick texture you have there! Looks awesome. What project is that?
 
It's "Twentynine Palms Airport" in the mojave desert, a nice airfield which seems to be quite remote but is located only ~100 miles away from Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Diego.

I'll open a thread here when it's in beta status.

Joyeux Noël :)
 
Well, if you see a dome reflected in the BB&T tower, it's your imagination :P No reflection was used, I just have the FSX materials set to reflect the environment map.
 
jonmkj said:
Well, if you see a dome reflected in the BB&T tower, it's your imagination :P No reflection was used, I just have the FSX materials set to reflect the environment map.
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Ha ha! It was I thought at the first place.
But I think just the default texture is good enough.
If you want to put custom cube environmental mapping, you need two of them for each buildings to get reflexion of each other.
There is Nvidia SDK about this and not too hard to do. But I cannot remember which you need. I think DirectX9c sdk from Nvidia.
 
Thunderbolt said:
Hey Jon,

I'm doing texture baking in 3ds Max 2009.
You have to texture your model nearly as usual.
The difference is that every face needs its own texture because two faces aren't lit the same way.
Now you have to set up the lightning.
I'm doing that with Vray's daylight (you may google that).
If you're feeling good with the lightning you have to "Render to texture", save the result as a bitmap and replace the source bitmap with the baked one.

As an example a nightmap I rendered for a project I'm working on:


And some fine tutorials:


regards,
Lars

P.S.: You can also use Blender as a freeware alternative for texture baking!
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Hi Lars,
I wonder if Vray using with sketch up is good enough to produce baked texture since it is free too. Do you have any ideas for this?
Best Regards,
Tic
 
Thunderbolt said:
Hey Jon,

"I'm doing texture baking in 3ds Max 2009.
You have to texture your model nearly as usual.
The difference is that every face needs its own texture because two faces aren't lit the same way.
Now you have to set up the lightning.
I'm doing that with Vray's daylight (you may google that).
If you're feeling good with the lightning you have to "Render to texture", save the result as a bitmap and replace the source bitmap with the baked one."


but how do you save the baked texture to a multi texture bitmap for use in fsx? if i render to texture an object i end up with the baked texture render but the polys are arranged automatically but i want to be able to manipulate the layout of the texture sheet as you cam with uvw unwrap/ edit function. I have seen posts that say you have to take a screen shot of the uv template in max but this seems a poor method to me. or is this not how its done do i have to cut out and re arrange the textures in photoshop on to a single bitmap for use in fsx then convert to dds?
how can i do this can anyone explain this to me

thanks
k
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