Basic community mapping models kit

[Crayder]

We could possibly ship TS with a small set of useful custom mapping objects.

• They would be really even measurements, no absurd decimals. This will make mapping and moving objects manually easier.
• A series of simple shapes and other useful things like platforms, walls, doorways, windows, island sections, mountain sections, logs, etc.
• Better text planes optimized for /text, the SA-MP ones are not very usefully sized for tiling and stuff.

[Southclaws]

I could pick this one up if we get a more detailed checkbox-list of requirements up here!

Edit: checkbox list:

• [x] Wall 0.25 x 2 x 4
• [x] Wall 0.25 x 5 x 4
• [x] Wall 0.25 x 10 x 4
• [x] Doorway (standard size)
• [ ] Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 1
• [ ] Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 2
• [ ] Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 4
• [ ] Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 16
• [ ] I-Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 1
• [ ] I-Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 2
• [ ] I-Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 4
• [ ] I-Beam 0.25 x 0.25 x 16
• [x] Plane 5 x 5
• [x] Plane 5 x 10
• [x] Plane 10 x 10
• [x] Plane 10 x 20
• [x] Plane 20 x 20
• [x] Plane 25 x 50
• [x] Plane 50 x 50
• [x] Plane 50 x 100
• [x] Plane 100 x 100
• [ ] Sphere 0.5m
• [ ] Sphere 1m
• [ ] Sphere 2m

I also had an idea of random trinkets with UV maps set up for custom text, such as coffee mugs, various sign styles, flags, those triangle shaped signs that go on cars/trucks for advertisements, etc...

[Crayder]

I'm playing with blender figuring this stuff out. I really like Google Sketchup so I think I'm going to use it for most of this and export models to blender then to TS. Blender is a lot to learn and I'm just eager to play with 0.3.8.

[Southclaws]

I'd avoid Sketchup for complex models, I'm not sure how it turns out when exported but the meshes are generally not fit for game-engine use for a variety of reasons (n-gons, poles, bad topology, etc) it's probably fine for objects not far from primitive complexity though.

[Crayder]

Afaik, when you export the Sketchup models as an object and import them into Blender they are basically just the same as creating them in Blender... as long as you have the faces all pointing out correctly anyways (which is pretty easy, you can obviously tell if the faces are white or blue, people are just lazy).

[Crayder]

Let's think Fortnite too, the entire map (besides the actual landscape) is built with simple walls, ramps, roofs, etc.

[Crayder]

Lol... Just uploaded the commits for this then realized there's a face backward on like every one of them...