[yayaya]

I'm a new comer, I'm trying to make my city----Beijing
the capital city of China, very big and very beautiful!

I've been learning to make 3d model, and could make some bridges or buildings, but i still can't start making the city beacouse it's hard to find a right scale, so i put a map onto a very big box(named GROUND_00) in 3dsmax to see what the size the city should have, then i used MM2CT to convert the 3ds file into .ar file, but the program has a wrong like that:

what's the reason? any limits on its size
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[abec]

Hmmm, would imagine that's a pretty big job (5 my or so i guess?). PM me if you'd like some advises though, after all i've actually stayed that place for a couple of months and i know a bit about this kind of stuff (trust me "ge mener"

[fre_ber]

Yes, finding the scale can be tricky - espescially since such maps are rarely accurate enough. Usually, the width of the roads are not to scale, the differences in width on the map are often just cues to indicate that there is a difference, and not to give the exact width of the street.

I think that the best thing you can do, if You live in Bejing, is to go to one of the city blocks and pace out the distances along the block sides. Then you have a rough scale that you can use. Make a GROUND surface that is the size you measured using 1.0=1 metre, then scale the big box so that your single block lines up and go from there.

But don't try to export a huge block with the map as a texture - this will not work, even if you get MM2CT to export it. MM2 won't render such huge polygons correctly. Rename the box so that MM2CT won't consider it for the PSDL and start to model block by block on top of the map, test the export frequently. Be careful to follow the instructions for MM2CT precisely when you model your blocks.
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<[4D]JoeShmo> what we have here, is a failure.. to communicate

[Maxoff]

Please remove COPS, you don't need them, It looks for me, that you have a mess in textures and it probalby cause "Index out of bounds". Please remove all unused textures/materials and assign materials to the objects once again. You shouldn't use your regional characters in textures/materials names as well, because it may cause problems.

If it doesn't help, please upload your .3ds file and I'll check it.
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[yayaya]

Declar:
my first city needs "Sample city", it provides basic crossings and roads

I've devided the big box(map) into pieces, and MM2CT can convert the 3ds. to .ar file, but the game doesn't load it, whenever i want to load it in game, the following is a black screen, and I pressed Esc, the game will jump back to windows, what's wrong?
(Even when i just put a small box in "Sample city" the game doesn't load it...)
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[fre_ber]

I suppose that it is impossible to say with this little information. I recommend that you take up Maxoff's offer and give him the 3ds file to check it out.
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<[4D]JoeShmo> what we have here, is a failure.. to communicate

[yayaya]

I no longer care whether it is possible to load my city, I just start making buildings. whenever I go to make roads, I'll ask for help, wait for me!
and here are some main buiding around the road.
renew it!
Let's learn somthing about beijing
the first is Chang'an avenue.
Let's see it from western part:(buildings without materials at the side of the avenue)

This is Urban-Rural Trade Center
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This is China Center TV station, its function will be undertaken by a
new building soon.

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This is China Millennium Monument

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This is China Military Museum




Turn to page two to get more!!!!
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[fre_ber]

That is not a good move. The larger your model is, the more difficult it is to locate the problem. I strongly recommend that you send the smallest possible version of your city that causes the error to Maxoff. I am pretty certain that you have nothing to fear in terms of IPR infringement from him.

Just let him help you to get a working base that you can build on. If you continue to work on a model with errors, there is a huge risk of you adding more and more problems that, in the end, all have to be corrected.

This is actually one of the reasons why I am not really working on my Stockholm model at a very high pace - even though I test it in MM2 after every few changes, and it does work, I am worried about the BAI situation. MM2CT/genbai fails to generate a BAI file for my city and therefore, ambient traffic and multiplayer modes won't work. There is a big risk of me having to change just about every intersection in my model to get it right in the end and I am not looking forward to that.
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<[4D]JoeShmo> what we have here, is a failure.. to communicate

[yayaya]

I want to say I'm just making some buildings, no "roads_". Buildings are made in different files, and they can be used to do other things. even my if city may not build up, the model of these building are still useful. So I'll go on with my work.
and I'm looking forward to a place to upload my file...
http://bbs.modchina.com/viewFile.asp?BoardID=30&ID=5399
is it OK that i upload my file without it's material?
......in fact most of the materials are from Maxoff's Sample city, only one map is mine.I'll upload it
what my .max has more than the Sample city is only a GROUND_00
I hope you can be patient to convert it to the ar. file!
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[yayaya]

If I can finish making Beijing, I would plan to change the cops, but how?
There are three kinds of Beijing cops, VW santana, VW passat, Hyundai sonata


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[james_beckerson]

First finish the city you'll get lost in all the modifications if you'll make them simultanously.
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