OFP Creating Simple Building

OFP Forum, OFP Home, OFP File Formats, OFP Tools, OFP Missions, OFP 3D Modeling, OFP Terrain

Operation Flashpoint (OFP) aka ArmA: Cold War Assault (CWA)

Creating Simple Boxy Building by Ian Malcolm

Before you start creating this building, you must have some imaginary in your head (or on photo) how this building will look when it will be finished, so we must know what we well make one of the basic rules for modelers, this time it´s will be look something like this:

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_design.jpg

Parameters:

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_parameters.jpg

First we will create front of house by planes

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_planes.jpg

Little scale it

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_scale.jpg

And now delete faces (D) and match them how do you need

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_delfaces.jpg

Now we gonna make wall, so press CTRL-A (select all) and press CTRL-C (copy) and then CTRL-V (paste) and dont forget to rotate normals (W).

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_rotatenormals.jpg

Then match only doors “wall”

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_doors.jpg

Now we have one wall, now copy that wall, paste it and rotate 180 degrees

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_rotate180.jpg

Now we're gonna create a window. Create it the same way as you did the door

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_createwindow.jpg

Now select these vertexes

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_vertexes.jpg

And move them more to the inside of the building

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_moveinside.jpg

If you do that, so congratulations, you done all the walls, you don't need made some other walls (like some addonmakers doing) now you have to just make side walls mathcing by vertexes from front and back wall

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_frontback1.jpg

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_frontback2.jpg

Matching done, now we only must create roof. Select these vertexes

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_selvertex1.jpg

And get them more up

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_selvertex2.jpg

Now select these vertexes, press copy and put them to the same height like those vertexs before (1 pic up)

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_selvertex3.jpg

Done, now only match those vertexes together

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_selvertex4.jpg

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_selvertex5.jpg

When you finish this, simply create box and put into top of our house

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_tophouse.jpg

And now are lovely Sharp edges, press CTRL-A and then U

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_sharpen.jpg

Hmm… thats window looks a little bit empty…

Create some cylinders and put them into window and dont forget to delete unnecessarily faces on cylinders!

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_cylinders.jpg

COMPLETE! Now finish texture mapping, create config.cpp file, other lods and put ingame.

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_complete1.jpg

pmc.editing.wiki_images_cb_complete2.jpg

Notes

This tutorial was written by Ian Malcolm in status.webz.cz/tutorials/