Oh bummer, right when I was getting my hopes up. Well thanks for telling me this anyway.

Well, if you're interested, I can describe how I work with it (how to make a multi-material object with properly displaying old LoDs), I've used old workflow to make LoDs for these objects, for example:




It allowed me to use high level of detail like that (on thousands of object instances):




While maintaining relatively good performance. For example, lod0 of the railway is approximately 3500 poly per 5 meters, while lod2 is 250 poly, allowing the editor to breathe. ) Or that locomotive, consisting of 33200 polys on lod0, which can't be used as a repetitive prop without lower levels of detail.

But, again, that is in no way a workflow of production quality and efficiency. Often more headache than profit. I use it only in areas where LoDs are crucial even for a quick and dirty prototype, i.e. when performance would be intolerable otherwise.

wow amazing models there. Did you created them in Sketchup ? and how is sketchup compared to 3Dsmax ?

trying to learn how to model but it takes loooooooooots of time to learn sadly.

Everything done in SkecthUp, including unwraps for vehicles.

There is no simple answer to your question. In compare with 3ds Max, SketchUp is relatively easy to learn. But at the same time, 3ds Max offers enormous functionality, while SketchUp is quite limited (no advanced texturing tools, no tools for organic modeling, no skeletal objects & animation, very limited options to export your work, etc.).

I'd recommend to study both.

What do you mean by unwraps? Oo

That.

Very interesting Tutorial, but saddly, many many picture from the firsts post are unaviable, is there a way to upload them again ?

thanks !

One mother of a tutorial I'm a Sketchup user myself, so this really comes in handy.

This is such a good tutorial!

But, I have 1 problem. When Im exporting the finished cube, opening it in the engine and placing into the world, it has too many small textures "Replace me". I don´t have problem to replace those default textures, I need help to have 1 texture over 1 side of the cube. I know that in SketchUp I have to setup the Material Size. The default locked one is "0,10cm". I can´t change that or change the color of the cube. Any help?

Here is how it looks in engine


And here is a SketchUp screen

You could use an other texture in Google Sketchup, a texture you have created (not a texture wich comes with Google Sketchup), then change the size of that texture and then change the texture in Cry Engine 3 to the texture you want to use in Cry Engine 3.

I've already explained that in part 5.2.

I know, but you didnt said if i have to apply texture or anything else. Lavizh helped me, he said to apply texture, and make component for a whole. Not for a whole object. I still can´t figure it out

Strange, everything loads up fine for me. Are the images still unaccessible to you right now? Perhaps that was a temporal issue.

Well, I guess there is a high possibility of various problems as img.gameru.net is a small local image hosting. Unexpected downtime, complicated and slow connection for far countries, etc. is no surprise. Thanks for letting me know. I'll upload the pictures to imgur.com as soon as possible.


Yes, of course you'll have to apply that blank material to your faces, otherwise the default SketchUp material will be left in place.

You know how to apply materials, right? Just use the Paint Bucket and slap it all over. Well, I guess you can even use the tool right on a component itself: that instantly fills all faces with a selected material, so you can finish with applying it in a matter of seconds. Usually that's an improper way of applying materials (faces can't have a configurable accurate texture mapping, only automatic one), but if you're using blank texture and care only about texture mapping size, it's not critical.

As about the "making a component from a whole", I guess Lavizh referred to pre-export practice of making a new, parent component with all the content in your scene - that allows you to name an object and export it via the PlayUp context menu.

Hello, yes the picture correctly work maybe any external error.

But again, really nice and usefull long tutorial !

I made a try, and i had the same problem as Isqueezee, just applying a color didnt allow to tweak the tilling, even in applying a google sketchup material ( wood or anything else ) and change the tilling, same result in the mod sdk.
So i suppose it needed to use a external texture and change the till and get a correct scale in the SB3 ?

Another question, someone knows a good .obj importer ? the ones i've saw arent free, and even that, after give a try as Trial, they didnt correclty scale the geometry.

Sorry, I really don't have an idea what's wrong with that explanation... (((


Then one click with Paint Bucket tool - and your object is being exported with proper texture mapping scale. Basically, once you have a material with a texture, size becomes configurable.

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As about importers, yes, it's a weak spot for SketchUp. I've never seen a good import result. Importing .3ds is as close to acceptable as it gets (and results are still very coarse, inaccurate, triangulated with errors, welded, etc.).

Basically, the only reason I might ever want to import anything into SketchUp is using it as a course 3d reference to keep near the scene. Certainly not something like a base for actual object geometry.

P.S.: That's about generic 3d formats, - blueprint import from CAD software works quite well, but that's irrelevant to the subject.

P.P.S.: That's even less relevant, but beware of native 3ds Max .skp import - it can't read mirrored (negative scaled) components/groups properly. They get inverted face normals all the time. So if you'll need to import a SketchUp model here, get ready to manually invert such groups back