making preset buildings

[lordalmighty1]

here is a screenshot of some buildings I have been making presets for, each building is made up of 4 parts 2 roof and 2 wall parts.
these buildings come from unity asset store.
the problem im having though at the moment with these is not being able to quickly select all the parts from the hierarchy for moving them. and if im not careful I pull the building apart lol .

would be nice to be able to lock them as 1 entity for moving somehow. and all parts of the building forming some kind of hierarchy sub tree. something like main building as 1 entity, then a tree of parts under that. (I know this is planned at some point.)
other than that im having fun putting these together and seeing what they look like in skyline.

here is a video of the pack in unity, which I hope to be able to making similar with skyline. (much later on)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWRsDzrGMU

[SolarPortal]

We are planning on making a grouping system which will do exactly as you want

[lordalmighty1]

yeah np sp m8 thanks

[lordalmighty1]

here is the startings of a road system I have been working bit by bit on, over the last couple of days for the buildings above.
the non grey road sections you see will be the colour of all the roads after the skyline update is out.



there are some errors with the roads you might notice, but this is minor problem that I can hopefully hide when buildings cars and alike are added later.

[SolarPortal]

Cool layout Look forward to seeing a town built with people roaming etc..

[lordalmighty1]

hmm, im not exactly a people person... zombies on the other hand will do nicely muhahaha..
but thanks m8.

I have a thought though I will pm you about m8.

[SolarPortal]

lol. Lots of driving and running zombies down then hehe....

[lordalmighty1]

@sp yeah with luck

here is a screen shot of a builds scale test not all the buildings was to the right scale yet though sadly more work and practice needed by me lol. but you get the idea..


not very organized or placed with any special thought or planning, just abit of a rush job for seeing them in a scene.

[CreativeOcclusion]

Looks great...Keep it going...

[SolarPortal]

wow, thats come a long way la1 really impressed.
I think that will be a great area for hunting down and shooting / driving through zombies

[lordalmighty1]

thanks you guys

[StarFire]

Looking good, Cool to see a level developing m8 keep it up

[lordalmighty1]

it is, and I will .
lots to do of course rescaling the buildings which I will probably leave for the time being. align the roads and pathways better so no textures are fighting it out lol..(after update will be done). making the city abig 1, so im working on the layout for a week longer to 2 maybe. then comes the props for the roads. lights news stands bus stops etc and like. then onto the vehicles and buildings I think followed by some plants tree's parks areas and then zombies last. oh and somewhere in the middle I will add a skybox lol currently no skybox atm haha.

current thoughts, when the bake to a single mesh comes in I will use that a lot on the roads and buildings in an attempt to save fps overall, breaking the road system down into grids for baking to single mesh and easy move and replace on another map. (the current map size is 10k) but I probably make that smaller after the roads are layed out. doubt I use all 10k maybe 6-8 possibly smaller than that not to sure yet what with the inner city outer city residents/rural and factory areas being added to it.

still have to get some more models got my eye on some great assets . should be interesting and fun with alittle patience and luck lol. oh and a update or 2 hehe, baking to single mesh update/ plus this next coming update will help a lot.

[StarFire]

lol you gonna love the new asset pipeline, been playing with it and it flies through asset folders creating ready to use assets all with top notch shader so they all look great. There is also a new feature on the translation tool that if you find a mesh is out of scale just rescale then bake back to mesh, propper job!

Note if you are placing smaller assets such as signs , bins etc dont forget to set their visibility distance to a comfy value to save hassle later

[lordalmighty1]

[lordalmighty1]

this screenshot is about as big as it can get without loosing sight of the roads placed.
so no more screenshots of the roads after today. lol.. in this screenshot I have added many new roads to the map, aligned all the road parts to the grid snap, using the grid snapping tool . i was finished that stage this morning lol, though most of it was done lastnight by around 430am haha, it took forever lol!! and that is just the roads not pathway area in the middle yet.
what you see will get bigger though, I intend on adding a great deal of single lane roads around what is visible now.
hopes are to have an inner city, outer city, residents, factory/industrial, rural areas with some luck anyways..

[SolarPortal]

That looks much tidier with no overlaps in sight. Great job!

[lordalmighty1]

thanks m8 yeah it does. took along time and patience but the tool helps . of course the newer tool would help a lot more hint hint hehe.. win10 release tomorrow so the question is will we have a new shiny skyline b4 or after the win10 install?. I have to admit im alittle anxious to know what will be out 1st lol and what will they both be like .

[TattieBoJangle]

[lordalmighty1]

also im abit unsure of how the win10 install will work, will we have to have reset codes to use skyline for a fresh os sp m8?.

[SolarPortal]

[TattieBoJangle]

Yea skyline seems to be solid in windows 10 the only problem I have came across is using a spawning script like solarportal said.

When upgrading to windows 10 it does give you the option to keep stuff so the licence may be intact when it loads back up but I would recommend a clean install because like everything it may work in 8 or 7 and not 10 not that I have came across anything that doesn't work.

And a little tip after the install right click on your hard drive and go to disk clean-up then clean up system files the reason for this is it stores your previous windows and files and can be large so if you have little hdd space left you know what to do

[SolarPortal]

thanks good information tattie

[TattieBoJangle]

also don't forget to back-up your projects I would recommend if you have another Hdd copying the following folder

Asset Library "Usually found at"

C:\Aurasoft\SkylineSDK\Asset Library

This will save everything and when putting it back after the install just copy the folder back it will ask you do you want to overwrite the files say No this will only put your files in and leave skylines files alone happy upgrading.

[lordalmighty1]

right o m8 thanks a lot