added a custom building, which i think is an improvement

Previously Academy:
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Previously Barracks:
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Custom Building:
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Post has been edited 6 time(s), last time on Aug 31 2007, 12:09 am by someone09.

Good for a start, don't try making them with just stacked pieces they kinda look like Excalibur's building because of it.
Instead of the try blending pieces and not just randomly placing them.

Good work, though. You're getting the idea really fast.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 29 2007, 8:45 pm by Corbo.

The two look quite similar, but they're not bad. Keep working =D

what's Excalibur's building?

hmm now that i look at it, the 2nd one's pretty bad...

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 29 2007, 9:51 pm by someone09.

They are good for a start. You know that you made a good GRP when all the pieces sorta... slide into place. Another thing is to use big pieces of buildings, if you use to many small pieces, things can get screwed up, really fast.

I meant it generally.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 30 2007, 1:13 am by Corbo.

The first image isn't loading for me because this computer is a deccaying peice of garbage, so I'll just base it on the second one.

It looks like a random, jumbled arrangement of parts. There's seemingly no flow, no blending, and it just looks really sketchy, and choppy. On the bright side, it's not a complete eyesore to look at. You didn't really screw up hard, you're just not exceding.

When peicing biuldings together, try to have an initial design in mind. Is it going to be a defense tower? A factory? Then, try to shape it around that design. Also, put peices where they belong. You don't have to use large peices, but just place the peices in good spots. Like, take a base peice of some sort to start with. If it has a round spot on it, add a round, or cylinder type peice to it. Of course, not everything has to fit together like this, but it has to at least look like it has some order to it, and not be entirely chaotic.

yeah the second one sucks, but the first one's not very good either.
and its just modded from the rax, so it's still a rax.
i'll try to spend more time on my grps, lol.

Heh. Well don't take it wrong. I'm not trying to give sensless bashing here, just providing advice. I don't know, people consider me to be good at .GRP editting, even though I never finish anything I start. So I try to help out.

How much time did you spend on those anyways?

rax was about 10-20 minutes, cause i pasted a lot of stuff from other buildings... a lot
academy was about the same
not really sure

edit: added a new rax, still not very good, but better than the old one i.m.o.
i think i have a habit of pasting too many parts onto the building... then it becomes very scrambled

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 30 2007, 2:11 am by someone09.

I kinda like most of the second image, actualy. It could do without the four tubes in the bottom right ( Battlecruiser...? o_O ) , but other than that I don't see much wrong with it. It's got a bit too much going on, but it is clean and fits together well.
The last one, on the other hand, looks like almost no attention was given to making sure the pieces fit together, like custom terrain with no blending whatsoever.

on the last one, i tried to use bigger pieces, but ended up using too many... so it became mushed together.

added a new building

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 30 2007, 1:56 pm by someone09.

I like the newest one best of all.

Yeah, that newest one is actually pretty good

thanks, i think i get how to make them now.

I like the new one. It's definitely the best of the three.

3rd one pwns, second one as said above looks like a random jumble of stuff.

Now that I can see the other images...

The first one is pretty good actually. The most recent one... Getting better. You're on the right track I think.