After a lot of 3d modeling in Blender I finally finished ONE of the many blocks in Trailmakers, the Thruster. It took me about 3/4 hours to make but I am very happy with the results. Pls give me feedback so I can improve :)
#Might make a better graphics mod
maiden spoke
I look forward to remaking all the other blocks and adding them all to a mod, However the project would take a concerning amount of time, and time management would be hard since I am currently still going to school and I will be for a long time.
dull wharf
mods can't change the models of blocks
maiden spoke
Il find a way
warm swift
Yeah unless the modding api gets updated to change models, this isnt possible
vivid yacht
making the product look like its trailers ic
idk how you'll handle materials or block skins but this looks good so far
main wigeon
Trailmakers RTX ON
dull wharf
Il find a way
there is none, so you won't
maiden spoke
there is none, so you won't
What game engine do you guys use for the game, And wich software do you guys use for moddeling?
dull wharf
Unity, but the modding api has no function to replace normal models
maiden spoke
Unity, but the modding api has no function to replace normal models
interesting, and would it be possible to lets say "modify the game files" in a way that its a resource pack?
maiden spoke
Unity, but the modding api has no function to replace normal models
btw what block would you recommend me to make next?
warm swift
interesting, and would it be possible to lets say "modify the game files" in a w...
Changing files is breaking the EULA
maiden spoke
Changing files is breaking the EULA
Oh my bad, then i wont
maiden spoke
Changing files is breaking the EULA
What block would you recommend me to do next?
warm swift
The seat (the default one)
maiden spoke
The seat (the default one)
That is a great suggestion, I will make it tomorrow, what seat do you mean by "the default one"?
warm swift
That is a great suggestion, I will make it tomorrow, what seat do you mean by "t...
The first seat. The one with the roll cage
maiden spoke
Ok
brazen ravine
well, if the newer models are bigger slightly in scale than older ones, then you can spawn each one of them as custom object without collisions and teleport the custom objects to each block every single tick.
will it be extremely laggy?
yes.
will it look good?
no (since the teleporting will look weird when moving).
will it be used by anyone?
no (due to first two answers).
but i think it would be possible this way
maiden spoke
well, if the newer models are bigger slightly in scale than older ones, then you...
Interesting, would that break the Eula
?
brazen ravine
no, since technically youre just using the in game modding tools, but it wouldnt work well enough to actually use
maiden spoke
The first seat. The one with the roll cage
starting
fallow pier
update
You can make those improved models, but keep in mind that this is not possible to change the current game models. It's not Minecraft lol.
pallid compass
hell yeah
maiden spoke
You can make those improved models, but keep in mind that this is not possible t...
ye sadly u cant
maiden spoke
due to time managment, The seat model will take more time that what I thought it would
fallow pier
due to time managment, The seat model will take more time that what I thought it...
Your doing a really good job on them models. Ngl the devs should take some of them if not all and implement them
warm swift
They should update the modding api tbh.
Its not been updated in forever
vivid yacht
They should update the modding api tbh.
Its not been updated in forever
its not really that it hasnt been updated its that it just doesnt have a lot of important things it should have
warm swift
I suppose.
They should add more to it
vivid yacht
trailmappers should also be updated, gridicolas pls 🙏
sprinkle tool whennnnnnn
object groups whennnn
warm swift
Whenever the devs decide that mods need refreshing 🙏
maiden spoke
Your doing a really good job on them models. Ngl the devs should take some of th...
i am also planning on remaking an rtx model of the frog
maiden spoke
So since it was easy and fast to make I remade all the simple blocks, this include: 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x4, 2x2x2, 4x8, 1x2x2 and as an extra the 1x1. I have finished the models, however the proper enders will take some time to render, so here you have a layout of the 1x1 as a sneak peak :)
here is the finished render:
maiden spoke
Your doing a really good job on them models. Ngl the devs should take some of th...
Btw, Not only for the devs (which I doubt they will use them) But to everyone feel free to use the renders, as long as you give credit I am ok with the usage, I will most likely post the models later on but I really encourage the usage of them.
(Of as long as you use them for stuff appropriated, I am fine with gore but not with Nsfw.) This is not to brag, just to clarify.
here is the 1x2
I have to go so il keep renderizing when im back
fallow pier
Btw, Not only for the devs (which I doubt they will use them) But to everyone f...
No worries, good job on them.
maiden spoke
No worries, good job on them.
thx
fallow pier
thx
Ngl, might use them on some of the scenes or animations I plan to make. I'm sure I'll find a use for them lol.
maiden spoke
Ngl, might use them on some of the scenes or animations I plan to make. I'm sure...
fell free to do so when the models come out
final crest
Love the renders 😆 keep up the good work, I’m sure someone in the map scene will find use for them
vivid yacht
Love the renders 😆 keep up the good work, I’m sure someone in the map scene wil...
imports custom 1x2 model
makes it a physics object
ebon snow
>imports custom 1x2 model
>makes it a physics object
Game implodes
fresh temple
sad this wont be in game.. These models are really looking good
main wigeon
This will be trailmakers in 2019.
fallow pier
sad this wont be in game.. These models are really looking good
They do, but I can already see that unity won't run these very well. Everyone's platform they play on would want to 💀
(die)
warm escarp
After a lot of 3d modeling in Blender I finally finished ONE of the many blocks ...
for the love of all that is good, ctrl + A scale before beveling, and shade smooth.
dark sail
This looks really cool, i am just trying to use blender for the first time and its hard. i have blender and 3 chrome searches open at the same time.
lime brook
rtx remix trailmakers
rtx remix only supports older rendering apis so you would need to do a lot of coding and modifying game files to get that to work, closest is probably reshade with raytraced global illumination, mxao and path traced fog and i would know as im using that combo
lime brook
After a lot of 3d modeling in Blender I finally finished ONE of the many blocks ...
bevels on the cuboid part looks wierd, i would do a frame instead
tranquil hare
After a lot of 3d modeling in Blender I finally finished ONE of the many blocks ...
The oiled one what are you doing here get back in your cage
lethal wadi
Better graphic mod? Like.... Shaders?
ebon snow
Better graphic mod? Like.... Shaders?
Not possible for modding but would be pretty cool
lethal wadi
;-;
onyx hedge
there is none, so you won't
I know this is old but couldn't a custom object be spawned on top of the block but slightly larger. Unless for some reason physics/collisions are forcefully enabled then couldn't it just be layered on top of the current block skins instead of fully replacing them
the only issue I can think of would be the lag caused by having a ton of custom objects
dense dove
well, if the newer models are bigger slightly in scale than older ones, then you...
Similar to this idea ig
onyx hedge
but that can be optimized
didn't see it lmao
I think it would only be slightly choppy if you did it right + there's a lot of ways to optimize the custom objects such as despawning them when no players are close enough to see them and reusing the same objects rather than spawning them every frame etc. Although the models might need to be simplified a bit before decent performance can be achieved
also you were abnormally quick with the response do you have notis on for this specifically or something
I expected it to be a few days before I got a response
dense dove
I expected it to be a few days before I got a response
Uh I just look at the channels that were recently active so yk
onyx hedge
Makes sense ig
green flicker
but that can be optimized
You need to update the position of a lot of abjects at 60 ticks, this will definitely cause lag and if the server fps get lower than 60 fps the models won't look nice while moving.
onyx hedge
I was able to do that for 1000m long rectangular lines for my distance sensor visualizer mod. Although to be fair I’m pretty sure I ended up reducing the update rate to every 20-30 ticks since it didn’t need to track the blocks perfectly. Before the last few updates It ran quite well though even for 700 of them and it wasn’t too choppy. Also in my opinion it being possible but looking bad is better than it being completely impossible
Now though it runs horribly since the last time I worked on it was sometime in 2025 so it has a bunch of errors now
green flicker
I was able to do that for 1000m long rectangular lines for my distance sensor vi...
Is that mod on the workshop?
onyx hedge
An older template version of it is since I lost the full one I was working on
I think I somehow accidentally deleted the file for the full version which I why I haven’t worked on it again
The template version is coded horribly since I started it with no experience with lua in particular and it’s most likely got a mix of my own and Claude‘s code in it
I had started the full version to fix that