Are you still working on part 3? I've been wanting to take a swing at some building design and I have used Blender for awile so this is just what I was looking for.

Certainly, it's nice to see people being interested in this. I've also been working on my unit modeling skills so I hope to make tutorials about that as well. It's been very busy for me this month with aoeDE and gamescom and next month I'll be travelling a lot as well but I hope to pick up where I left in October.

very Nice I used blender for 4 years, very glad to follow this guide... I would like to see more, modelling in blender is very useful specially for making composition , I would like to see a pallett of colors to make the same compostion in blender and create something to share-.

[This message has been edited by ralpstrip (edited 09-28-2017 @ 02:46 PM).]

Next tutorial is up .

@ralpstrip, do you mean sharing materials and textures?

Hi, I meant sharing 2D here in the community... I am interesting in this blender's thread. thx... can you upload a image of a "tile" in game to compare with the blender's grid?

if I want to create a barrack the scale must be 0.075 or 0.375?
( 2x2 blender's grid for house , 3x3 for barracks in blender's grid with factor scale as 0.75 at the begginig of the trhead ? or specially for uneven numbers it is 0.075?) thx.

[This message has been edited by ralpstrip (edited 10-15-2017 @ 11:36 AM).]

Hey, yh it would be a good idea to make blank tiles to see it matches in game. For now I just used the TC I made as a reference:


If you use 0.075 scale then the outline of your barracks will be 1.5 lines away from the origin and if you use 0.375 it will be 3 lines away. If you want your grid to match the in-game tiles I suggest using 0.075 scale.

ok... firts of all I need a "tips" or rules of thumb for this and manage my proyect for the Town center (see my starting concept below)...

I am trying to "fake" a pytagoras's thorema , just to match the grid with buildings (and their own limits or outliners , just for that, is not the real theoreme).

[url=https://imgur.com/SEFfslw][/url]

in this thread, I might use 0.075 scale's distance between 3D view grid lines , so, my result are this (see the picture below, it is just simple test with metric system and a default plane for my starting and testing process)... I have a little and struggle doubt , what do you mean with "lines away from the origin" ? what's origin do you mean ? the respective geometry's origin right ? (for example a 2 meters plane with location (0,0,0) and rotation (0,0,0) with scale (1,1,1) show me this result. ( pivot point at the same location 0,0,0 that cursor (0,0,0) too, so the origin of this will be set(0,0,0) for initial the geometry?

as you see , it is not a mathpressicion it is not Pythagoras's theorem and it is not trigonometrical's reason . But I would like to know if I am right , so , conclution with the setting :


*2 blender's grid square represent the towncenter "H" (take it as if it were the Hypotenuse (fake Hypotenuse).
**4 blender's grid square represent or match the wonder size? (take it as if it were the Hypotenuse (fake Hypotenuse).

* I mean 2 * 2
** I mean 4 * 4

[This message has been edited by ralpstrip (edited 10-15-2017 @ 08:20 PM).]

Yeah I mean the origin of all (0,0,0). Your setup seems alright. If you're not sure you can render a cube and copy paste that on a screenshot of aoe2.

ah ok , global trasnformation. I have my game setting's resolution to 1080x1920 , so I take a screenshot with that configuration (I think most of people use higher sreen resolution to play the game) , then open my photo editor and compare it with the rendered plane?...

this is an extra question :

is there a rules of measures, grids, outlines for a path near the house ? for example (I would like to model a house with a little aisle below the windows with some summer's flowers and some things as little stones or garden's things).

I think a diagram for this (for every building specially for that stuff of decorations of the active building.) :

the red area ( represents the active building , house, TC, market, etc , the meaningful shape or significative one)

the yellos area (represents the passive area of respective building , it is decoration or some stuff to put in place , such wheelbarrows, stone garden, barrels , extra thigs)


[/url]
[url]https://imgur.com/a/yLQB4

[This message has been edited by ralpstrip (edited 10-16-2017 @ 12:45 PM).]

If you're not sure about the resolution of the screenshot, you can always extract the images from the slps files.

I don't have exact rules for things going outside of the red area but in general, tall objects should be inside it. Medium-sized objects like wheelbarrows, carts, barrels,... (as tall as the half a villager) can be on the edge but not much farther, and stones, plants or grass (as tall as the shoe of the villager) can go in the yellow area but I wouldn't take it too far out either. If you go too much outside of the outlines, you'll have to start separating them to give them another layer mask.

Ok ,understood, I thought the same logic for planning my composition.
Does exist any resolution for a villager? for example 32x32 px for a villager and 256x256 px for a town center?

well I hope the next part of the tutorial ,thx.

[This message has been edited by ralpstrip (edited 10-16-2017 @ 01:51 PM).]

They are cropped so every frame has a different resolution. Thanks, I'll see when I can do the next part .

ok , it will be a meaningful idea to plans size, sprites and all that, thx.