[WIP] Ground Base Landing Rack

[Felbourn]

Back in the day I was pretty good with Photoshop. I took a friend's artwork and then "massaged" it into these:

Maybe I ought to try out Blender even though I'm not an artist. I'm a pretty good amateur carpenter. Maybe some of that skill will carry into modeling in some way. Who knows. It would be nice to know how to make my own parts sometimes.

[liquidhype]

Maybe I ought to try out Blender even though I'm not an artist. I'm a pretty good amateur carpenter. Maybe some of that skill will carry into modeling in some way. Who knows. It would be nice to know how to make my own parts sometimes.

You definitely should try it, I'm sure you'd pick up on it rather quickly. Any 3D modelling program is not too hard to learn, whether it be Blender, Maya, 3Ds max or any other. When you get the hang of which tool does what, it becomes quite easy.

[BLUAV8R]

Back in the day I was pretty good with Photoshop. I took a friend's artwork and then "massaged" it into these:

http://i.imgur.com/Z0gr26F.png

Maybe I ought to try out Blender even though I'm not an artist. I'm a pretty good amateur carpenter. Maybe some of that skill will carry into modeling in some way. Who knows. It would be nice to know how to make my own parts sometimes.

I just started about a week ago but have been slowed down with my move-in into college this weekend, but blender was very easy to learn to the point where I ditched tutorials and started going off on my own! As far as texturing I am about just the same as you in skill level I would Imagine so it should be easy as I have been getting it somewhat down! The hard part is making nice looking texture that fit well with eachother

[Felbourn]

An update... we're continuing to work on this in some spare time here and there. The most recent models from liquid are pretty awesome. I've worked on CFGs that support lots of mods, but are designed for Stock. They do work for RemoteTech, TweakScale, KIS/KAS, etc though.

[liquidhype]

Yea it's kind of hard working on the models during the week as my work days are fairly long. Luckily the weekend is near, so I'll finish up the rest of the models and textures then. I'm posting some update screenshots on Imgur every now and again, so feel free to keep track of what's happening there.

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Edited August 19, 2015 by liquidhype

[Felbourn]

BTW after this I have a second, harder project. This time it's something I can immediately use, and would use in every game I ever play, because it's parts for one my greatest loves in KSP.

[Felbourn]

Those textures are already looking pretty good. If you package them up, I'll work on getting a pre-release put together.

[Virtualgenius]

@Felbourn any chance of resurrecting this

[Andem]

31 minutes ago, Virtualgenius said:

@Felbourn any chance of resurrecting this

Sadly no... The artist @Felbourn was working with abandoned the project (without notifying @Felbourn I might add).

[Virtualgenius]

Bummer I really would like to get that 3d model that  MeCripp has into KSP but i have no idea how to do it been lost without Bobcats Home stuff been waiting for Alexustas Konquest but alas he has gone MIA  and this would be the next best thing 

Edited July 15, 2016 by Virtualgenius

[Felbourn]

He gave me a copy to look at once, so if only I could find that... I could release whatever I had at the time.

[Virtualgenius]

Its really good you should try and finish it I am happy to help but alas cant model anything 

[Felbourn]

Neither can I.

[Virtualgenius]

I love habitat stuff I loved the Home series by bobcat and this looked excellent I guess we could ask for help to finish it off there are lots of people who do model 

[Felbourn]

I came up with a thought just now too... I'll save it for a surprise. I might be able to do this myself. Sort of. You'll see! (if I can do it)

[Virtualgenius]

Thats awesome news I will look forward to it

 

[Virtualgenius]

On 8/14/2015 at 7:50 AM, MeCripp said:

Have you seen this one

How did you get this into KSP

[VenomousRequiem]

3 minutes ago, Virtualgenius said:

How did you get this into KSP

Well if you can download the models from the website, all you have to do is export it into the game through Unity, and write a config for the parts.

[Virtualgenius]

I have no idea on Unity at all but here is the page to download it  http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/nmss-hdu 

i think it should be broken into 3 parts 

The ramp and airlock which i think would have folding hand rails and ramp then the centre section then the third long section with active dock ports on each part

 

Edited July 15, 2016 by Virtualgenius

[rasta013]

I cannot believe I inadvertently necro'd this thread because I was trying to reference these models for someone else...

LMAO.  Law of unintended consequences... 

[kerbiloid]

On 15.07.2016 at 11:40 AM, Virtualgenius said:

How did you get this into KSP

Beale's amazing tutorial describes step-by-step a part creation and integration. (About the Unity - from the words "Unity time!").

Following this reference I've integrated several free 3d models as VAB parts and as KerbalKonstructs static objects.

You need Unity 5 and PartTools for KSP 1.1 installed.
(I used Unity 4 and PartTools for 0.23 with KSP 1.1.x — still with no problems.)

[Felbourn]

Thanks. I'm going to learn this. It's the last thing I need to learn to be a full modder.

[Felbourn]

Hmm it's for Wings and I have Blender. Not sure I want to switch... maybe I can "translate" the instructions into Blender terms.

[MrMeeb]

27 minutes ago, Felbourn said:

Hmm it's for Wings and I have Blender. Not sure I want to switch... maybe I can "translate" the instructions into Blender terms.

I think you'd be fine using more general Blender guides for Blender stuff, because you can then follow Beale's guide anyway when it comes to importing to Unity, if I understand it right

[Virtualgenius]

I tried to understand blender but it alludes me how are you going Felbourn