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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
Whoops, apparently the Solaris has 90k. Detail boxes still probably a good idea.

 

Offline newman

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You can go way over those counts. Probably not too wise to add insane numbers of polygons but it will work. We got two ships in Diaspora that are over those counts and they work just fine. The key is good lod-ing. Detail boxes can help if used properly, too. Current graphic cards can handle large amounts of polygons, what you really want to be careful about is the number and size of textures - if you run out of video memory your fps will drop through the floor.
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Yeah, texture count is the biggest issue I'm aware of w/r/t to the engine. With the go_faster patch you also get significant advantages for use of submodels, but if this is for WCS, WCS does not have that patch which could be an issue.

 

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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
Nope, it's not for WCS, I just make it more out of fun :) Texture count won't be a problem, since the greebles are all produced out of the same template and just reorganized different to make it look more random, and the WingCommander Ships don't use that much colour. However, I just recalculated and I will obviously get too high with the polycount, so far I estimate something between 90 and 100K  :sigh:

As said, if the ship wouldn't be so big, I wouldn't make so much detail, but ingame the greeble won't be so small, so it's necessary. But since I only need it in LOD 1, and if detailbox work, I might get it done. Unfortunately, my Truespace starts *****ing when I breach 100K, it goes hard on performance, not to mention lodding the ship :(
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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
How's the Star Destroyer coming?

 

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If it looks this good without textures, I can't wait to see the finished product.

 

Offline newman

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Man I love these "subtle" bumps every few months to see if they can get some more eyecandy out of brand :P
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Offline LordMelvin

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Who're ya calling subtle?
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I'm not calling you subtle. I'm calling you "subtle". There's a difference :)
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Offline LordMelvin

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Well, 'vivre la difference,' as I would always say if I could speak French.

Of course if I could speak French, I'd have spelt that properly.

EditToAdd: And if I could speak English, I'd have spelled that one properly, too.
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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
Oh what's this?  An update?

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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
 :jaw: awesome work
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Very impressive.
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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
That's... amazing! :eek2:
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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
Oh, and if anyone's curious, we're still only at 57.6k tris (27k polies) =)
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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
:wtf:
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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
Oh, and if anyone's curious, we're still only at 57.6k tris (27k polies) =)

We all know you can go well beyond that limit. :)
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Re: Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Reborn
Yeah but the cleaner it is, hopefully the nicer it behaves.  Looking great.
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Oh sweet Lord in heaven...  :jaw: THANK YOU!!!  :pimp:
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Haha...ha...silly thought time...

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