yesnt's Billboards - Beta version released

[yesnt]

Beta Download (http://dl021.filefactory.com/dl/f/2197eb/b/6/h/71af87996da2e7e5/)


Original Post:
Now i have finished my arcade set (i will update it with proper icons it the future) and have learned to make billboards, i thought i would make a billboard set, i know shyguy is making a whole load of billboards in his circus center set 2, but i am thought id make a set that focuses just on billboards. So far i have only made few things, but i plan on making lots more, any requests and comments will be welcome. So here is a pic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/yesnt/Shot0127.jpg

[osudenny]

How about some odd billboards like 3x1, 5x1

[birou006]

I desperately need that billboard floor :cry:

[coinich]

shyguy has billaboard floors too. It looks quite nice so far, but some of these things have already or are about to be released. iceacts did a billaboard set that had 1h and 2h pieces already, with double sided variants.

[-Nuclear Fish-]

I suggest remaking more of the more frequently used RCT3 billboards, such as 1x1, 2x1, 4x1 (probably the rest as well) without collision detection and no seams. I'd also like to see diagonal versions of them too.

They're the only billboards I would really find useful.

[yesnt]

@osudenny: Good Idea, i will try that
@birou006: You'll have to wait like everyone else
@coinich: Yea, a few of these things have been done, but i will be doing other things aswell, such as diagonal walls, televisions with the screens turned into billboards, and any requests i will look into.
@-Nuclear Fish-: i will also try that, i suspect most people would find those usefull.

[rt3dude]

These should be useful! You could try something like a curved billboard and floors and roofs that could fit on those. For making buildings, you know what I mean.

[Fisherman]

How about curved billboards like cylinders, tunnel tubes with the billboard on the inside, spheres, cones. Oh...and animated door billboards... :D

-Derek

[El Toro]

These look really nice. Can we have a tile floor piece? :)

[weebletns]

Zordock (fantasy standing stones set) has figured out... or is figuring out... how to make a floor piece conform to terrain in all four directions. Take a look at his thread and if you could figure out how to get it to work, a completely-terrain-conforming billboard would be great! Laggy maybe, but in moderation we could make our own land textures!

Also, I don't think it would be too hard to make a giant billboard (5*5 or something) for ride backdrops, especially for indoor rides. This would save time and effort needed to piece together billboards we have... and would you believe there aren't any seamless billboards released yet?

[-Nuclear Fish-]

Could you also possible make the billboards normal wall thickness? At the moment they look 2Dish, and from that picture I can't tell how well they'd work when placed on walls.

[yesnt]

Those billboards are wall thinckness, 0.2u, i got the measurements of belgabor's facts and figures thread.

[Belgabor]

I'm sorry, but they look a lot too thin to be 0.2 u. It's hand to say for the wall, but the roof is approximately 1/64 square thick. That's 0.06u.
0.2u is 1/20 square.

[yesnt]

Oh, sorry, i made them 0.02u by mistake, sorry about that.

[yesnt]

Sorry for the double post, but i have added a few more peices but i made them before i realised i had done them to thin, i will fix that soon, so here is a pic of everything so far:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/yesnt/Shot0128.jpg

[-Nuclear Fish-]

Looking good! :up: You still gonna do ones to replace the RCT3 billboards?

[yesnt]

Simple answer, yep.

[-Nuclear Fish-]

Goody good :D Just thought I'd ask to make sure...

[Usf geek]

They're very thin, try giving them more depth.

[-Nuclear Fish-]

^ Read the posts. :noob:

[Obi_Wan_Cannoli]

but i made them before i realised i had done them to thin, i will fix that soon,

:p :p :p

[2005]

Very useful for things like shop fronts.

[Coaster Freak]

PLEASE REKESE THIS!!!!!!! i WOULD lOvE TO HAVE FLOOR AND WALL AND ROOF BILLBORDS!!!!


-Foofy-

JK

[Cancerbat]

Coaster Freak- WhyOhWhy...

yesnt- They look good.

[coinich]

This set will be very useful. Thanks!

[El Toro]

PLEASE REKESE THIS!!!!!!! i WOULD lOvE TO HAVE FLOOR AND WALL AND ROOF BILLBORDS!!!!


-Foofy-

JK

YOU CRAZY CHKEN!

Yes, please god rekese it. Looks nice, I love the floors. :D

[yesnt]

OK, since everyone seems to need these so badly, i will make some thicker walls then release what i have done so far, this doesnt meen i will stop work on them, i will still carry on adding more, it just meens that ypu'll all have these billboards that you crave so much. :D

[-Nuclear Fish-]

I would prefer it if you made more and then released them.

[Belgabor]

Indeed, don't let anybody rush you. Take your time and release when you're satisfied with it.

[The_Cook]

I have to concur with Belgabor, take your time to get it right first time. Once a set is out in the wild you can't take it back, and unless you've planned it carefully it's very difficult to change existing pieces since it will screw up peoples parks.

You're pretty much damned either way. If you don't relase quickly the community hates your, if you release too quickly and then have to fix things later the community hates you because you've screwed up their park.

Don't let a bunch of impatient kids pressure you into releasing something before it's right. Similarly, don't let a grumpy old mug like me distract you too much. ;)

The walls are looking good, although you need to change the uv mapping slightly. At the moment the texture is compressed on the quarter tile pieces and the less than full height walls. This means that when you put them alongside full size pieces the textures won't line up and it'll look a bit of a mess.

[Coaster Freak]

OK, since everyone seems to need these so badly, i will make some thicker walls then release what i have done so far, this doesnt meen i will stop work on them, i will still carry on adding more, it just meens that ypu'll all have these billboards that you crave so much. :D
I-LOVE-YOU- You are no longer the little chicken..... YOUR THE KING CHICKEN! Lol I just have a thing for chickens... Its wierd I know.....:p

[-Nuclear Fish-]

One other question I've been meaning to ask: are all of these quarter tile placement? Or just the quarter tile ones? Sorry if you've already said.

[yesnt]

Yea, they are all quater tile placement and no i didnt already say lol.

[osudenny]

That is nice of you to release some now. You are doing a great job with this set. I sure they all will come in really handy and will be used by all.

[yesnt]

I am not sure if i should release what i have done so far, because i want all of you to be happy, but im not finished so i dont want to find out i have made a mistake when its to late, so i have added a poll to allow you to decide. :p

[-Nuclear Fish-]

No all the way.

[Coaster Freak]

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I said yes on the poll and were losing..... I now your down to little chicken!

[coinich]

I rather you release the entire set at once. If only for my lazy bum...

[yesnt]

I want to make to floor billboard conform to terrain, but i dont know how, i have been trying to work it out but i cant get it, any help would be nice, thanks.

[-Nuclear Fish-]

This (http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8136847&postcount=21) post by Belgabor explains it all.

[wabigbear]

Great work on this set yesnt!

While I'd love to eventually have this set to work with, I hope you'll not release it until it's finished. Personally I've gotten tired of all the numerous posts here pleading for people to release stuff early "because I ned it for my park! I ned it reelly bad! My park cant be bilt without them!"

Yeah...right...

[yesnt]

I havent managed to make the floor conform yet, but i have added loads more peices and made the walls thicker, so here are some pics:


Random sized billboards
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/yesnt/Shot0134.jpg


Thicker walls, i have made them all thicker, just the're not all shown in the pic
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/yesnt/Shot0135.jpg

[-Nuclear Fish-]

Yay! Love the different sized billboards... have you made a 3x1 version?

[Coaster Freak]

AWESOME! NOW I LOVE YOU (agan) bc this is going to be great!


EDIT: When do you think this will be relesed? Im just wondering if it will be this week bc I have ALL WEEK OFF!

[yesnt]

Yay! Love the different sized billboards... have you made a 3x1 version?

no, but i will :)

[Belgabor]

Note that full conformance is touchy, it might well not work with billboard floors. It doesn't work for terrain-textured tiles for example.

[-Nuclear Fish-]

Note that full conformance is touchy, it might well not work with billboard floors. It doesn't work for terrain-textured tiles for example.

I doubt it will work with billboards, because as far as I'm aware billboards only appear in the billboards menu, and to have anything full conforming it appears in the flowers menu.

[yesnt]

Looks, like the people have spoken, i shall hopefully be releasing a beta pack tomorrow;)

[Obi_Wan_Cannoli]

NO!! Then people will have to download the next set, and then confusion, and if you have some in your park, you have to fix em', no, just finish the whole set...

[Coaster Freak]

He put up the pole and thats how it came out. If he puts up the beta pack then ppl can try it out and tell him if any thing is rong with it. At first the pole was winning on NO, But now its YES and its a yes. So Give it a chamce.

[yesnt]

Too late, its a bit unfair to say ill do whatever the poll says then suddenly decide i dont like the outcome and i will do the opposite, no, the poll has spoken.

EDIT: Coaster Freak beat me to it

[-Nuclear Fish-]

If it's a BETA pack, he's allowed to make it have problems and even remove everything if he wants. It's the user's own fault if they have to replace everything, seeingas it's only a BETA. Something I should have done with my particle effects... :(

[Coaster Freak]

So when do you think it will be up Yesnt????

[Obi_Wan_Cannoli]

^^^ Dude, chill, let him take his time...

[Aceana]

Terrain conforming will not work with billboards. Well, I couldn't get it to work. It just crashed my computer every time I tried. :(

[yesnt]

So when do you think it will be up Yesnt????
Now

Download (http://dl021.filefactory.com/dl/f/2197eb/b/6/h/71af87996da2e7e5/)

Please tell me if there is anything wrong with it so i can fix it right away ;)

[Coaster Freak]

Sorry for double posting but, can you get mega upload?

[-Nuclear Fish-]

They seem pretty good, except for the alignment.

The only one which lined up properly was the standard floor tile. All the others are placed weird. Shouldn't they be aligned to the edge of the tile?

[yesnt]

Thanks for pointing that out -Nuclear Fish- i will fix that as soon as possible.

[-Nuclear Fish-]

Yeah, make sure you have the grid turned on so you can see how they align. They seem to be a sixteenth of a tile offset.

[mini_shima]

Kool set gonna download the beta when i get home :)

[Coaster Freak]

Yeah thats the only problem!

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/2706/shot0095by9.png (http://imageshack.us)

NF I know you explaned it but I didnt see your post:)

[yesnt]

I know what ive done, i noticed the floor tile didnt fit over the path properly so i fixed it, i never thought about the other peices, sorry

[Belgabor]

No need to be sorry, they pressed you into releasing it, so they reap what they sowed :p

[osudenny]

Yesnt Very nicely done. But they don't line up with the other walls. Thank you for allowing us to test them. Take your time withn the rest. You are doing an outstanding Job!!!

[Teirmose]

It looks like the beta testing is coming along very well yesnt. I have to say that this set looks like an outstanding idea. Good luck on completing it. At least you have a group of beta testers that are giving you good feedback.
Thank you very much for under taking this endeavor.

[yesnt]

Thanks for all your comments, but incase that download doesnt work for some reason, heres another (you can never be to sure)

Link (http://gallery.rollercoastertime.com/index.php?download=53)

[Coaster Freak]

cool! dose this link have the right fixed one?? Any way looking ford to this set!

[yesnt]

No, sorry, it was just incase for some reason the other link doesnt work for someone, working on fixing the set though.

UPDATE
Sorry for the lack of updates (i have been busy with exams) but look, here comes an update now:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/yesnt/Shot0137.jpg

Incase you didn't guess, thats a television (it's recolourable), because i will be moving on from plain billboards and making ones such as signposts, flags, banners etc. and of course things like that television. :)

[yesnt]

Please delete this post

[-Nuclear Fish-]

I'd edit this update into your last/next post if I were you. Have you not seen Skipper's new thread about double posting? He's deleting any double posts he sees regardless of content. He only posted the thread in the Parks forum, but I think it applies to everywhere.

Anyway, that looks pretty good! I noticed in the Beta set you hadn't included the regular sized billboards (2x1, 2x2, etc) or any large ones. Are these still going to be in the release?

[yesnt]

I'd edit this update into your last/next post if I were you. Have you not seen Skipper's new thread about double posting? He's deleting any double posts he sees regardless of content. He only posted the thread in the Parks forum, but I think it applies to everywhere.

Anyway, that looks pretty good! I noticed in the Beta set you hadn't included the regular sized billboards (2x1, 2x2, etc) or any large ones. Are these still going to be in the release?

No, i havent seen his thread, ill do that now.
And i thought i had included the regular sized billboards but i just checked now and the're not there! I don't know how that happened.

[-Nuclear Fish-]

Any news on this set? Today I realised I couldn't use Iceact's 1H billboards how I wanted cause they have collision detection, so I could really do with yours being aligned correctly. There's no rush though, take your time.

[yesnt]

No, sorry, i have exams and coursework etc. I'll try and fix them soon, but i'm not promising anything.

[TECHNOFIRESHOW1]

both of the links pulled up but there was nothing to extract on the secong =(

[Gearboy]

can you Pleeeeeeeeeeease make a big bilboard like a movie screen! something like this > http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2930/shot0022copyrv2pr6.jpg

[Belgabor]

I've tried, it looks like sh*t due to the low resolution RCT3 renders billboard bitmaps at.

[Gearboy]

its fine Belgabor just send it to me in a p.m.

I desprately need it