[CityGen] User Selection of Building type
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@jim said:
When I think about buildings, I am beginning to think that they should be .skp files in the buildings folder. Then instead of drawing building using Ruby, you load the component, add the instance, rotate, and scale. They can still have custom attributes/contraints attached.
That's an option. But that will limit their shape. If you have an irregular street layout you'll end up with irregular parcels and buildings. So some generation from scratch would be needed.
But if it's pre-fabricating buildings to they'll have more details then cut-out glue-to window/door and detailing components is also an option. That way you can generate the volumes and populate it with detail components.
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I see benefits both ways. What about leaving it so that its rubies that make the buildings, but what about one module that instead of making its own buildings, just loads building models from a directory. Or even multiple directories if people want to be able to subdivide that module into different building types.
Is that just overly - complex? I am imagining making it as simple as possible, but perhaps its just too much.
Chris
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I had imagined that there's be building generator the made everything from scratch and then there's be ones that used Components to build buildings. All depending on what type of building you want.
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@chris fullmer said:
Is that just overly - complex? I am imagining making it as simple as possible, but perhaps its just too much.
I don't think it is overly complex. The control program would not have to know how the buildings are being added. What matters is that all Building types respond_to? a .build() method.
So the controller just calls the .build() method on any type of Building, and all Buildings must repond_to? the .build() call. But each type of Building will do something completely unique in its build method.
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So building class should be based upon a Building class maybe?
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Arg!!
You can't modify the material name via the API.
Nor can you delete a material.With layers you can set the name. But then there's the problem of colour. Guess the user have to manage the colours completely. ...but I'd rather have different materials per street/building type than a layer...
I saw that VfSU uses some hack to work around renaming and deleting materials. They replace the existing with a new material and then apply all unused materials to a dummy group before they purge the materials. ...I don't want to use such a hack...
grumble
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With the good quality selection of tiling building textures over at http://www.cgtextures.com/ it would be very cool to have a building generator that let you generate building with different textures.
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Can we package those materials ourselves? Or are you thinking more like just make a generator that will place any specified material onto the walls?
Chris
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Dunno if we can repackage it... but looking at them just reminded me of this project again and I had some ideas flying past.
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