[S-99]

That's like a dog eating a t-bone without chewing.

[Turambar]

That's like a dog eating a t-bone without chewing.

what does the colossus have to do with this?

[S-99]

It has everything to do with the last few posts behind mine, along with just a little bit of thinking of that poor dog i mentioned.

I ate it.

PREP THE EMERGENCY ROOM!
We're gonna need to open this sucker up....

Nurse, it's time to put him to sleep....Hand me that hammer!

Just wait for him to crap it out.

[TrashMan]

No waiting...who's gonna clean it up afterwars????

[Grizzly]

We have sla... volunteers for that.

[TrashMan]

GET IT DONE!!!!!

[Grizzly]

GET IT DONE!!!!!

Be patient...

[Ulala]

hey, where is this thing?

we need it in order to make the high-poly installation from mission 2, basically that's the only thing left (apart from the colossus and arcadia) that looks kinda crappy

face it, by the time everything gets HTL'd (if ever), there'll be some new graphical technology out that HTL will pale in comparison to.

[Agent_Koopa]

face it, by the time everything gets HTL'd (if ever), there'll be some new graphical technology out that HTL will pale in comparison to.

Well, we call them HTL models because they take much longer to render without HTL. It's not impossible to render them without HTL, and by no means is it restricted to the graphics cards of the present. As long as future graphics cards are capable of performing lighting-and-transformation calculations on their own, we can still call them HTL.

Oh, and with future advancements in processor technology, you may not even need an HTL-capable card.

[Cobra]

Jeez, you guys missed the memo. They're not "HTL" models, they're just "Hi-poly" models.

[Agent_Koopa]

Jeez, you guys missed the memo. They're not "HTL" models, they're just "Hi-poly" models.

Well, we've been calling them "HTL" models for a while now. I guess I did miss the memo.

[Admiral Nelson]

I did send an e-mail to the address listed in knn's profile, but no response.  Is it possible to fix the model in its present state without its source files?  I beleive the present issues are screwy lighting and a bounding box problem.

[Ulala]

my bad

[knn]

Click me

Pictures

Collision detection errors are fixed. Thrusters and dockpoint are correctly placed in the pof. Nameplate included.
No LODs and debris yet, and some weapon firing points need tweaking (multiparts mostly). Some unnecessary polygons have to be removed. I'm also not entirely satisfied with it, so I don't want to call it finished yet.

Why did I disappear for 1.5 years? Well, after spending *days* trying to get this thing into the game and fix the issues, I gave up, and lost interest.
I'm working on it again now that I have a computer that can handle 3dsmax, truespace, deep exploration, both versions of pcs, modelview, vista and the memory leaks of all those.

[Hades]

Woot, he is back!

[Admiral Nelson]

I am delighted to see you back again!

[Kaine]

Wow, that's quite something. Great to see this back on track!

[IceyJones]

for me looks very nice so far in the tech room....hope you get rid of these remaining coding errors you mentioned soon, so i can test it during play

but thanks 4 your effort so far.....

[Nx]

Public notice:
I wanted to register with this user name back when HLP was only 2.0, but the forum software required at least 3 characters. When HLP3 came out I tried again, and, to my surprise, the new forum didn't have this limitation. So I'll be using this profile from now on
Thank you for your attention.

for me looks very nice so far in the tech room....hope you get rid of these remaining coding errors you mentioned soon, so i can test it during play

but thanks 4 your effort so far.....

The model I posted should be STL correct (unless some part of the conversion process screwed things up), and I couldn't get inside the ship ingame with my fighter, so i hope the collision detection errors are truly gone. Unfortunately, since I booleaned (is that a word?) together the different pieces of the main hull, I now have to remove a few hundred polygons, and probably remap the whole thing. Should be fun...

[Cobra]

Hurry up, dammit, I wanna see a GOOD-looking Iceni.