Building a loft???

[jpetersjr]

Well, I'd still like to figure out how to build a loft so I could try again to build a skyrail system. First though I need to figure out to to build the lofted bridge so I can attempt to build it. Does anyone know where I could find some detailed tutorials on how to do this in 3D Crafter Pro.


...Cheers...


jpetersjr


A while back I tried and failed because the blueprint wasn't understanding it for some reason, but perhaps now that we have a new editor perhaps I could try again and this time actually be successful.

[emdsd90mac]

Check your messages, I sent you a tutorial.

[robbit]

me too! Please

[jpetersjr]

My question is how do you select a loft blueprint with the new editor, since it seems to place a scenery blueprint as the only blueprint we can select. How do I select a blueprint for a loft?



...Cheers...


J

[RvA944]

You have to add a new item to your procedural folder to ma a blueprint for your new loft item.....

01) right click on the "Procedural" folder in your source folder
02) from the popup select "Blue Print"
03) from the blue print temples select "Loft section blueprint"
04) rename the default to the name of your loft
05) under "DisplayName/English" add your item name
06) right click your igs file, "Copy As" then click on "Provider / Product relative path"
07) paste this into: "Render/CrosssectionID"
08) paste this into: "Render/MiddleGeometryBPID/BlueprintSetID/BlueprintID"
09) select a "Category"
10) save & export

Hope this helps,

Roger

[RvA944]

I haven't gotten that far yet, when I do I'll let ya know though

[jpetersjr]

You have to add a new item to your procedural folder to ma a blueprint for your new loft item.....

01) right click on the "Procedural" folder in your source folder
02) from the popup select "Blue Print"
03) from the blue print temples select "Loft section blueprint"
04) rename the default to the name of your loft
05) under "DisplayName/English" add your item name
06) right click your igs file, "Copy As" then click on "Provider / Product relative path"
07) paste this into: "Render/CrosssectionID"
08) paste this into: "Render/MiddleGeometryBPID/BlueprintSetID/BlueprintID"
09) select a "Category"
10) save & export

Hope this helps,

Roger

Did this and it doesn't work anymore, all I get is this. Blue Print doesn't show up like it should.

Loft problem.jpg

Also, another possible way, when you right click on the igs itself and select ProceduralSceneryLoft blueprint ID, where do you find the loft at after you export it. I've did this and I can't locate it in the sim menu to try to test it to see if it works???

[mrennie]

You have to add a new item to your procedural folder to ma a blueprint for your new loft item.....

01) right click on the "Procedural" folder in your source folder
02) from the popup select "Blue Print"
03) from the blue print temples select "Loft section blueprint"
04) rename the default to the name of your loft
05) under "DisplayName/English" add your item name
06) right click your igs file, "Copy As" then click on "Provider / Product relative path"
07) paste this into: "Render/CrosssectionID"
08) paste this into: "Render/MiddleGeometryBPID/BlueprintSetID/BlueprintID"
09) select a "Category"
10) save & export

Hope this helps,

Roger

Did this and it doesn't work anymore, all I get is this. Blue Print doesn't show up like it should.

Loft problem.jpg

Also, another possible way, when you right click on the igs itself and select ProceduralSceneryLoft blueprint ID, where do you find the loft at after you export it. I've did this and I can't locate it in the sim menu to try to test it to see if it works???

You probably haven't put in the Provided and Product names - they go in the Render component > Primary named texture set > Blueprint set ID section. For example, I put Smokebox in Provider, and whatever the name of my model is in Product.

[Bananarama]

You probably haven't put in the Provided and Product names - they go in the Render component > Primary named texture set > Blueprint set ID section. For example, I put Smokebox in Provider, and whatever the name of my model is in Product.

Unless I'm missing something, he can't do that if he's unable to create the initial blueprint. Does the shape have to exist in the folder for BE2 to work?

[mrennie]

You probably haven't put in the Provided and Product names - they go in the Render component > Primary named texture set > Blueprint set ID section. For example, I put Smokebox in Provider, and whatever the name of my model is in Product.

Unless I'm missing something, he can't do that if he's unable to create the initial blueprint. Does the shape have to exist in the folder for BE2 to work?

You can create a new blueprint without needing to have the .igs file present, but I thought JP had managed to create a blueprint, but failed to export it ...

Also, another possible way, when you right click on the igs itself and select ProceduralSceneryLoft blueprint ID, where do you find the loft at after you export it. I've did this and I can't locate it in the sim menu to try to test it to see if it works???

To be honest, I'm totally confused. I can't tell from this if the export succeeded or not. What does "I've did (sic) this" mean?

[jpetersjr]

Wasn't able to create a blueprint because of the way the new blueprint editor is set up, it works fine for standard scenery, but I can't figure out how to create the correct style blueprints for more advanced items to get them to work correctly.

The old way doesn't seem to work any longer because of the way the editor works now. I click on the folder itself to create the correct blueprint and the blueprint option isn't available, and it doesn't seem to work though igs itself since the render components that need to be filled out aren't available in the scenery blueprint.

I then tried to do it though scenery blueprint and filled it out the best I could and then selected eProceduralSceneryLoft, and it exported fine, but I can't find it in the game though to see if it was successful or not after selecting that and exporting.

I have to admit that I'm very familiar with exporting standard scenery into the sim, but I'm completely confused over lofted items though.

[mrennie]

Wasn't able to create a blueprint because of the way the new blueprint editor is set up, it works fine for standard scenery, but I can't figure out how to create the correct style blueprints for more advanced items to get them to work correctly.

The old way doesn't seem to work any longer because of the way the editor works now. I click on the folder itself to create the correct blueprint and the blueprint option isn't available,

yes it is ...

ScreenShot046.jpg

ScreenShot047.jpg

and it doesn't seem to work though igs itself since the render components that need to be filled out aren't available in the scenery blueprint.

if you click on an .igs file, the only "create blueprint" option available is for a scenery blueprint, but the render components are in every blueprint that contains geometry:

ScreenShot048.jpg

I then tried to do it though scenery blueprint and filled it out the best I could and then selected eProceduralSceneryLoft, and it exported fine, but I can't find it in the game though to see if it was successful or not after selecting that and exporting.

I have to admit that I'm very familiar with exporting standard scenery into the sim, but I'm completely confused over lofted items though.

[jpetersjr]

Alright, I did this and it showed up in the sim, but I still can't get it to appear in the loft section or to get it to twist like a loft. What do you think I've did wrong.

[raptorengineer]

ok so i been looking around on here about building a loft and i'm so lost. i have built the xml file in blue print editor and built my tunnel in blender. but x0 y0 z0 i tihnk i got right. just witch way do i face the tunnel on xyz direction? here pic.

[jpetersjr]

In Crafter it faces the Z direction, but I have no idea when it comes to Blender.

Here's something that might help you though.

Loft Blueprint_A.jpg

Loft Blueprint_B.jpg

Loft Blueprint_C.jpg

Loft Blueprint_D.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J