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[Jimbobh]

Trying to keep up with the Jones's (so to speak, lol.)

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[Jimbobh]

It is that time of year.

 

 

[Jimbobh]

Getting anxious to turn this into something.

 

[Dazmaniac]

Getting anxious to turn this into something.

 

 

What, like a car park or supermarket, lol.

 

[Jimbobh]

[Richard]

 

That works!!

[Jimbobh]

Here is a tutorial of how I created terrain from Google Sketchup. It has been a year since my last tutorial on this, so some things have changed.

I used TheOtherRicks course Timberline to use for this tutorial.



Things you need:

Google Sketchup  -  http://google-sketch...n.softonic.com/

   Create course terrain, save as .skp file

 

Google Sketchup Pro http://www.sketchup....CFSQaOgodG3YAhQ

    This has an 8 hour Free Trial you will only need it to export the FBX file.



 Rhino - http://www.rhino3d.com/download
This is a 90 day free trial version


FOR UNITY

 Object2Terrain   http://wiki.unity3d..../Object2Terrain
I used the C# script

 

You may have to adjust the image to the terrain a bit, but this can be done by re-cropping the image up or down or left to right, or re-scaling.

In other courses I have done, I zoomed in on the course as far as it would go to get me a better image and also a little better detail in the terrain. That is why my last course had 254 images stitched together.

[TheOtherRick]

Excellent tutorial! The fact that you used my course makes it even more excellent!   So...Jimbobh...How much you want for those files? Keep in mind that I am an old fart on a limited budget...lol. I have an issue that prevents installation of Sketchup, (mentioned in my thread), or else I would make the files myself.

[IanK]

Great work Jimbobh and thanks for all the information.

Ian

[Jimbobh]

Excellent tutorial! The fact that you used my course makes it even more excellent!   So...Jimbobh...How much you want for those files? Keep in mind that I am an old fart on a limited budget...lol. I have an issue that prevents installation of Sketchup, (mentioned in my thread), or else I would make the files myself.

message me your e-mail and I can send you the files you need, which would just be the raw terrain file and jpg

[TheOtherRick]

message me your e-mail and I can send you the files you need, which would just be the raw terrain file and jpg

 

Message sent. Thanks a bunch! Going to save me a ton of work.

[Kablammo11]

Outstanding work, Jimbobh! One can only hope that such good deeds do not go unnoticed.

[NoPutt]

Great Job Jimbobh, simple, to the point, and no Southern dialect.

[Jimbobh]

Thanks K11, I'm glad to help anyone who wants to get started. My methods may not be the best, but it's all I have.

And Thanks NoPutt, no southern dialect here, I'm a Mainah. probably a good thing I don't have a mic. lol

[Jimbobh]

I decided to fire up Unity 5 to start getting use to it. At first I started getting a bad lag while trying to move around. (My mouse would hardly move around the screen.) Since I didn't have those problems in V4, I figured it must have something to do with the new features that start up by default, so I looked into the lighting. In the tool bar, opened Windows, selecting Lighting and unchecking "Continuous Baking" seems to have solved that problem.

I started working on a new course, so thought I would do a little experimenting. I created this course using 2 terrains. One is the course area, and the other is the actual surounding Mountains. You can see the ski area.

For us, playing this course has a lot to do with the scenery, so hopefully theses can be used in the game at some point. If not, I can just simply delete the Terrain and have the course still intact.

Also in unity 5, The Max image size is now 8192. Just FYI.

 

 

 

[TheOtherRick]

I tried to look at the picture you linked and photobucket says, "Sorry, this person moved or deleted this image".

[Jimbobh]

I don't know what happened to it. It was there yesterday. Anyway, Here is another.

[Joe Habiger]

Yeah I seen it yesterday to and now it's gone. You do have a nice plot of land there, should be fun to play.

[Dazmaniac]

I think it's a Photobucket thing. They changed the way their site functions. I think Imageshack had similar issues too.

 

I often use my own webhosting space for images, but also use Imgur, which is a free image hosting site, if you want an alternative to Photobucket. ore Imageshack

 

[Jimbobh]

Thanks Daz for the info. I will give imgur a try.

It is  fun course to play. (Not exactly a flat course) Will see how it plays in a game someday,