[Omniscaper]

I was surprise it even converted with Styxx's 3dsmax pluggin. I got board and decided to convert my reference model of the BSG.








My Computer specs are:
Dual 2.66ghz Xeon cpus
1gb pc2100
Geforce 6600gt 128mb
Audigy 2

DDS textures helped in this case. The TGA's caused a 5 minute load time. It reduced it to ~ 1 min.

Most of the polyo are in the model's smoothing and tech details. If the SCP engine can tackle this beast with only a 50% fps reduction, why am I limiting MY Galactica model to 15k?

[WMCoolmon]

And with the same vid card as me...

Although it needs turrets, and (for FS anyway) some of that detail should probably go towards hull detail rather than smoothing.

Stilll...I'm impressed.

Is there any significant difference with two?

[Omniscaper]

Though the game was specifically written for dual cpu rigs, the second cpu does free up FS2 to hog all CPU power of the other. When I play games like doom and Halflife, now FS2-SCP, I assign the game "realtime" priority on a single CPU and set the program only use that one. The other takes care of windows stuffs I guess. I do get a performance boost but not a significant one.

[Nico]

an avergare of 50 frames with only two ships on screen tho... have a little fight around it and I'm afraid it's gonna drop more than significantely...

[Omniscaper]

Actually there are 8 raiders and 3 more vipers in the landing bay, not to mention I have v-sync enabled along with antialiasing set to 4x

[Kie99]

Check your PMs Omni

[Omniscaper]

Check my PM's? for what? Nude picture of Natalie Portman?

[Fineus]

Crikey...it's beautiful.

[Omniscaper]

Turned off antialiasing and v-sync... 60FPS!!!

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Omniscaper
Most of the polyo are in the model's smoothing and tech details. If the SCP engine can tackle this beast with only a 50% fps reduction, why am I limiting MY Galactica model to 15k?

Because there is a difference between what you can do and what you should do.

Most other people don't have dual CPUs.

[Inquisitor]

It's still fracking impressive.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Inquisitor
It's still fracking impressive.

Not denying that.

[Unknown Target]

God that's gorgeous. And truly collossal looking, too, melikey

[Nuke]

let me know if you need help animating the landing bays.

[Inquisitor]

Impressive enough for me to brag about it:

http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/1882/7124

[karajorma]

I assume the model must be made up of several large subobjects then cause from what I understood the hard limit was 25,000 polys per subobject.

[Moonsword]

Holy f'ing ****e...

My roommate called that a beating stick.  And he was *right*.  My computer would choke on that in a heartbeat.

[Fury]

Originally posted by Inquisitor
Impressive enough for me to brag about it:

http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/1882/7124

Hilarious typo there. "Freespace 2 Scource Code Project"
And you forgot "e" from "one".

[Inquisitor]

Yah yah. I hadn't had much coffee when I posted that.

[Bobboau]

the limit is 21845 points, per texture, per subobject. this limit is imposed by our use of 16 bit index buffers