Wow, you can really see that this is a forum full of nerds who never saw the daylight expect on phtoshopped images with naked russian girls.

i think you mean 'except' and i don't limit myself to russian girls... some eastern european girls are just as good!

oh, and thanks again for your ever useful post, another 2 minutes of my life you've just wasted

Yes dear grammar nazi, thats what I meant. Btw, you can gather some extra points by pointing out that "phtoshopped" is wrong too. Oh and eastern europe is russia (everything eastern of germany is the evil russian communist)


You are welcome. I will send you an invoice about the five minutes it took me to google where russia is.

....evil....communist..well..i do not feel good.. i guess socialism works fine in my country.

poor poor sid... which school did you fall out of?I corrected your spelling not grammar.

It seems Google is not your friend and has lied to you! Russia is mostly in Asia, not Europe. I've attached some pictures for you and some child learning activities to help you along your way. Hopefully you won't find them confusing as some do say Germany is Eastern European too!

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/geographygames/copycat



There are links in the pictures for you so nasty Google won't get you lost again and don't worry, I won't be sending you an invoice. It's nice to help the struggling people of this world.

Seems us 'nerds' have our uses

Sorry for the off-topic DEX, still would like to see a dirtier texture

Well another off topic, because some people go off topic once again !

I think some people would ask for Next Gen textures with normal map and specular like that :


But in that case it would not be a pack but instead a Vehicle sold appart caus it would ask lot more work !

And all these models of the pack are not destined to be the main models of the game, i don't think people make a game where you will watch each model carefull during action, specially if it's a racing game or furious FPS

That is because reality meets Half Life 1 and Crysis. Look, here is the original image of this building. I made it exactly like this:



The same counts for the front loader vehicle. I tried to be close to the reality. If our customers dont like the reality then we will do more scifi and fantasy in the future again
It is indeed easier to add more texture detail in a fictional area. Reality often does not have tons of details. That is why many artists prefer dirty and destroyed objects, they offer simply more details and character. But the reality with working machines that get cleaned after work is different:





It was really hard work and a new experiment to try to offer some vehicles in addition to our buildings. If it does not work out as a success we will just leave it in the future. It is too much work anyway for such bundled packages. I mean, in TurboSquid you will pay at least $100 for an untextured model of that kind.

We bundled 2 vehicles with a few buildings to make a more attractive pack. Many weeks of hard work went into it. But like always we will learn from the feedback and from the sales numbers. So don't worry.

Perhaps it seems some people would like less models (no Vehicles), but Next Gen with bigger texturew with lot of details and scratches in metal and paint ?

So for a highter price indeed !

Why not proposing a vote Next Time on a theme pack that people would want ?

Afaik there is/was a SciFi Voting on their shop website

Maybe they will even add more

My point wasn't just about the design of the building itself but the level of detail difference. The building isn't totally flat yet still you decided to bake everything into the texture while putting countless little stairs on the top. It wouldn't really have made a big difference in terms of polygoncount but would be way more convincing in close ups which I guess was the whole point of it when looking at the overall level of detail...


The geometries are just fine - I guess the main criticism here is that you textured them the catalogue way. We'd have expected something like this because they don't always stay brand new:







Ok - you got a point: You created a sort of convincing texture for the brand new condition. If you want to create a real mining scenario they just look a bit misplaced though especially as I think your main goal wasn't realism but a believable scenario which is what games are all about. Sure - those vehicles might look like that for a while but seeing such things drive around is an exception to the rule and would immediately point out when actually creating a mining scene destroying the immersion...