Miggles

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Hi everybody, just a small update from me regarding the amity island mod. Currently the work is on hold because we also work on another modification. The mod is not cancelled and i will work occasionally on it. The other modification is a german one. I would like to know if you are interested in that modification.

Sweet, excited to have some more left coast mods http://www.emergency-planet.com/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png 

My experience with exporting from Sketchup to Zmod is it messes with the normals. Try flipping any faces that are facing the wrong way and then recalculate normals and see if that helps, plus what he said ^

Love them   You doing civilian model replacement too?

Well I officially hate UV mapping. The actually texturing isn't too bad, I've always liked reskinning vehicles. 

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Here's Medic 1, creds to Itchboy and Ghosty for the model/OG skin. I'm not sure how Santa Cruz AMR numbers their rigs besides they have about 6-8 rigs on duty per day, but I'm planning on the following:

Medic 1 - Transit

Medic 2 - Transit variant

Medic 3 - Transit variant #2

Medic 4 + 5 - new style E350

Backup Medic 6 - old style E350

Supervisor 1 - F150

Supervisor 2 - Expedition

Looks a lot cleaner bro what other vehicles are you planning on updating?

Dang man beat me to it, looks great!

Love it! Actually owned an 84 E350, best vehicle I've ever had

I've finished all the lighting on E3111, thanks to all of y'alls advice. Interior and slight model adjustments have been completed, just need to skin them. In the meantime, used itchboys Silverado to try to expedite getting another unit in-game. Was supposed to be finished today but the airport I work at got a fiber optic cable cut so they called me in early to help out at our ramp

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Thank you guys for your input, did a little more playing around and got it sort of better. I think I'll just do radiation on the main lighting, seems a little overkill to me to have radiation on everything

1 hour ago, theblackangel18 said:

Well you have got to tell me what hotkey is that for me to test xD

By the way, i've found this blueprint and i don't know if it is good (it's the blueprient that i've used to do the 3d model you see above)

Control + B if you want t bevel an edge, Control + Shift + B if you want to bevel just a vertex.

You can use just those two views, however in my experience it requires more experience  Just get another reference photo that shows you the different angles and curvatures and adjust what you've made from the blueprints

Thought I'd get some people's opinions on lighting so far. I've redone it about five times and probably have another five times to go until I'm satisfied. I need to tone down the rear amber lights but other than that, anyone have any suggestions for tweaking it?

I also have re-added the interior to the engine and am in the process of mapping it right now http://www.emergency-planet.com/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png

5 minutes ago, Yankee43 said:

Blender has a what? 
 

Downloading now 

 It's actually a super cool bevel feature, can do something as simple as a curve with a specified number of edges to customized shapes. But anyways to OP, I would find a better picture of the side view to get your side dimensions correct. After you're done with that, you can use reference images to judge where you need to curve the cab inward. The hardest part for me with using Blender is getting nice topography; look up some Youtube videos on Blender modeling to see what I'm talking about. That will help a lot down the road if you decide to go with a low-poly base and then add in the subdivision surface modifier later

Blender has a bevel feature that can round out your curves

Thank you Yankee and Itchboy for the lighting help. I've got it "done" now, and I say that because I'm sure I'll change it another 5 times before I'm satisfied.

11 hours ago, bama1234 said:

Impressive work Miggles! Keep it up, you've clearly got talent for this.

I appreciate it bro, a lot of time gone into learning the ways of making a mod over the past couple weeks...

23 hours ago, Yankee43 said:

That’s a very good question. Lighting is something I need work on too. I know radiation is the ‘projection’ of light. Such as headlights. (I think that’s right at least) I think you are supposed to be in radiation mode, and click to place those little dots into the shade you want. Try looking at another mods vehicles and look at their headlights.

Yeah I got the headlights and everything done, just was wondering everyone's opinions on radiation for main emergency lighting. I'm using the West Falls mod as a testbed for now and I noticed all the fire and EMS have no radiation. LA mod does. I went ahead and added radiation for the rotators, two of the rear flashers, and then both rear amber wig wags and it seems pretty much good enough. That being said, lighting is about 95% done, then its onto slight model changes and seeing if I can't get E3116 in without Emc-unit's awesome help

1 hour ago, Yankee43 said:

I feel your pain, but hey....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DykVJl6wr_4

 

Yeah all ten of us that are here  

Quick questions on lighting. Coronas, radiation, and polygons; how do you guys do it? Right now, everything is done except for the lightbars. All the side warning lights I have as coronas with polygons, no radiation. The main lightbar has rotators so I was thinking about just doing coronas with radiation, the rear lightbars are LED rotators so I was gunna do corona with polygon and radiation. My questions are, 1) do I need a corona if I have polys but no radiation 2) how do you guys do radiation? All lights or just the main lights to help run the game smoother?

My main goal with this mod is to make everything as detailed as possible using as little details as possible... without losing too much detail 

15 hours ago, itchboy said:

Something you could try: Go into your em4.cfg file and edit "r_clipnear" to 10. That will give you more zoom because the model won't "hide" itself.

Worked perfect, thanks bro. Basically have to learn how to do everything so all y'alls help is amazing

Crazy good work, my man. Looks absolutely fantastic, and will make future engines so much easier to finish! Will work on lighting now so that I can actually have a completed. Can't thank you enough, I'm impressed by the helpfulness of this community

EDIT: when I'm in the lights editor, the model is seemingly invisible. Anyone know the cause for this? I can see it in every other edit window

Yup! Tacoma for lifeguard units, Tundra for battalion

Took a break from Engines to work on something different. Seems the Sketchup -> Blender -> Zmod is nothing but troubles so decided to try out something newhttp://www.emergency-planet.com/uploads/monthly_2019_12/797885541_ScreenShot2019-12-11at5_38_05AM.thumb.png.11fddc874d172471f5b7147bb9b028df.png

5 minutes ago, THVFD said:

it's a collasable attic ladder usually about 10 foot long and around 6 inches wide when open

You're awesome and I love you bro

5 minutes ago, THVFD said:

if you are referring to the diamond plate box on the hose bed cover it is a spine board storage compartment

That's good to know actually, thank you! But no, above where it says paramedic engine theres the diamond plate trim and then a long object sitting on top of the utility bed, where suction hoses go on some engines (I think that's what they're called?)

On 12/5/2019 at 5:04 AM, itchboy said:

Hopefully the next asset dump me and the guys do will stir up some more creative people.

This is what I was referring to in my first post  I seen your youtube of all those scripts over the past several years, which really turn in an old game into something fresh and new.

On 12/7/2019 at 6:58 PM, Yankee43 said:

Looking awesome, very high quality for that poly count.

Thanks man I appreciate it.

My goal was to have E3111 "done" in a week, save for the skin (most of the other engines are extremely similar and thus shouldn't take as long to complete once I get the base done). I've probably redone it at least six times now but I think I'm finally getting close to a point that I'm happy between quality and compromise. The last thing that I really can't seem to get is what the heck is on the driver side of the box.

3116 has the same thing. Almost looks like a thin ladder from this angle but that would make it so narrow? Maybe its a tripod or something? Which brings me to my next question. For cliff rescues, obviously calling in a helicopter would be easiest. However, would there be a way to use a ground-based tripod with the helicopter hoist command to do something similar?