[guide]How to create a .ase model with radiant

Hello
Today im gonna show u how to create a .ase model with your netradiant

#1
Run your Netradiant and open new file





#2
Create something nice at your Netradian.
Here is an example of woodden box.





#3
Make a hollow box, texture it with "caulk", and make sure your model (wooden box) is inside of this box ( i changed a bit one wall to show u whats inside !)





#4
Put insie of the box "info_player_start"





#5
Take care of your position of your brushwork! Origin of the .ase model is always at x=0 y=0 z=0.
Then compile it with Q3map2:(ToAse)
After compile process, u can find your model file (.ase) at basewsw/maps





#6
Now open your map project, click somewhere with right mouse button and choose misc -> misc_model





#7
find your model and click open :) (a wooden box !)
Then open Entities:
mark the forcemeta so they can use materials and cast light
and for solid, so your box gonna be solid :D









Now compile your map and run wsw !





Edit*
Hope it gonna help :)
if i forgot about smthg, pm me or post here

Sticky great Help !!

Anthy wrote:


But u should move this .ase fail to basewsw/models/mapobjects

Fail! :P

Thnx for the tute. Would be even nicer if you moved it to the wiki, where the mapping "how tos".

well, u are right :)
its not so important

anyway
added to wsw.wiki
http://www.warsow.net/wiki/index.php?ti ... Netradiant

Ad a: Model Orginin:

Before exporting to .ase: Take care of your position of your brushwork! Origin of the .ase model is always at x=0 y=0 z=0.

Ad b: CAULK!:

Before exporting to .ase: Put caulk texture to all faces that are not visible. Otherwise your model will have heaps of polygons more than necessary.

i don't have the Toase option :(
if somebody can put .ase model here it would be fun

homart wrote:

i don't have the Toase option :(
if somebody can put .ase model here it would be fun

if youre using netradian try Export to ASE

And Anthy great tutorial

homart wrote:

if somebody can put .ase model here it would be fun

F1 would be great if somebody could share some .ase files, I'am on my laptop so I can't use my mouse that fast because of laptop has way different mouse .. :( Someone share .ase models please!

morbus wrote:

Ad a: Model Orginin:

Before exporting to .ase: Take care of your position of your brushwork! Origin of the .ase model is always at x=0 y=0 z=0.

Ad b: CAULK!:

Before exporting to .ase: Put caulk texture to all faces that are not visible. Otherwise your model will have heaps of polygons more than necessary.

well
A: this is default position for mapping
B: caulk is important all the time, so ofc u have to use caulk when u are creating model too !

but thanks anyway :)

homart, try to dl some latest netradiant version, if u will not find "toase" ill upload build menu :)

A is an important hint, tho. If you don't center it well you may get troubles at trying to place it, specially if the origin gets inside a brush.

jal wrote:

A is an important hint, tho. If you don't center it well you may get troubles at trying to place it, specially if the origin gets inside a brush.

yes and with rotation tools, i get some funny things with a model which wasn't centered ^^

kk, #1 post and wiki updated

homart btw, what .ase do u need ?
if u are talking about this wooden box, i can upload and put link here for u
but if u want some other models, create a new topic and ask about custom models

some spot light would be great of some other stuff

After making our custom .ase
are they any way for retexturing the model?

u are able to use wsw models, so check them for some spotlights etc :)

Anthy wrote:

u are able to use wsw models, so check them for some spotlights etc :)

where I can find these wsw models??

Custom models

Hero wrote:

where I can find these wsw models??

basewsw
open your data0_05pure.pk3 with winrar or pakscape
then models/mapobjects

Some info from Jal

Jal wrote:


I can't guarantee that those same models will stay there forever. They'll probably change over time.

hm, nice work, but only one question

Why should I make this if I can achieve the same with saving my brushwork as prefabs without making a box around them or center problems and where I even can change them after I imported them?

They are more optimized than brushes for rendering. In any case, models are always better when made in a modelling tool, ofc.

jal wrote:

They are more optimized than brushes for rendering.

Huh?
How are they better optimized? I ever thought that using models is bad for performance because subdivisions can't divide them down?
Does this mean if I make my map completely out of brushes, then save it as a ase model and import that model in a map I will get better performance than if I hadn't done this?