Author Topic: And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY] (Read 33574 times)

Singh · **Reply #60 on:** October 16, 2005, 04:08:08 am

I've actually done nothing special with it, with exception of changing the background. But I did manage to get a few worthy angle shots of the Ursas as they attacked the Ravana

DaBrain · **Reply #61 on:** October 16, 2005, 04:16:06 am

Wow, the video clip is awesome!

I love this thread.

karajorma · **Reply #62 on:** October 16, 2005, 05:37:19 am

Then you'll love this even more.

Bearbaiting!

There's a bug in the current version of CVS so I've included two versions. The should-work version is for when the bug is fixed. The does-work version is playable now though you will need to use the 14th or 16th October CVS builds. The mission is certain to crash with anything earlier.

There are bound to be collision detection problems but what the hell it's Bearbaiting with more than 120 extra ships in it

Singh · **Reply #63 on:** October 16, 2005, 05:39:20 am

holy sweetness!!

Time to take more Fraps videos!! This is soooo gonna be cool!

karajorma · **Reply #64 on:** October 16, 2005, 05:42:55 am

BTW I should mention that due to the bug there are about 5-10 friendly shivan mara's in the mission.

ummmmm......... They're SOC operatives on a secret mission that went horribly wrong. That will explain it

WMCoolmon · **Reply #65 on:** October 16, 2005, 05:45:06 am

Or bi-curious Shivans.

taylor · **Reply #66 on:** October 16, 2005, 09:14:53 am

Quote

Originally posted by karajorma
Bearbaiting!

Hmm, not as bad as I thought performance wise. It never dipped below 23 FPS on me and was pretty playable. We might have to see about making the collision pairs dynamically allocate though, in sanely sized batches, to get around that particular problem.

For performance during that mission:

Code: [Select]

compute_num_homing_objects():
    calls: 4,962,496
    CPU time spent: 108.27 seconds
    percent of mission time: 21.63%
    time per execution: ~0.0000218176 seconds

ship_name_lookup():
    calls: 3,299,491
    CPU time spent: 25.9 seconds
    percent of mission time: 5.18%
    time per execution: ~0.000007849696 seconds

collide_remove_weapons();
    calls: 24,999
    CPU time spent: 14.05 seconds
    percent of mission time: 2.81%
    time per execution: ~0.00056202

vm_vec_mag() was 16.80 seconds, but with 313,809,411 calls. Everything else was less than 10 seconds.

DaBrain · **Reply #67 on:** October 16, 2005, 09:27:57 am

This would be great for SoL. I'd like to see a lot of enemies at the same time. Low-poly+low-res of course.

Goober5000 · **Reply #68 on:** October 16, 2005, 01:32:11 pm

The only problem with ship-create is that not all the sexps are guaranteed to work properly. The reason is that none of the ship-create ships are on the arrival list for that mission, and some sexps check the arrival list to determine whether a condition is true, false, known true, or known false. So these sexps could possibly have weird behavior.

The good news is that if you run into this sort of sexp problem, chaining it to the sexp that created the ship should solve it.

NGTM-1R · **Reply #69 on:** October 16, 2005, 03:38:25 pm

Quote

Originally posted by karajorma

The FPS is 20 because I'm taking a screenshot. It was actually smoother than that before I pressed the PrtScrn button

The problem is that once you get too many ships the game stops registering impacts so none of your shots actually hit anything.

That said spawning ships appears to have a lower overhead than putting them in manually so I may see if it's possible to push up the number of ships in a mission like bearbaiting.

'xactly. I'm fairly sure that there's shots visibly passing through a ship in that screenie.

ChronoReverse · **Reply #70 on:** October 16, 2005, 04:20:46 pm

And thus, despite all claims to the contrary, it is proven that we all really like BoE style battles deep inside =)

delta_7890 · **Reply #71 on:** October 16, 2005, 04:43:30 pm

So...freaking...awesome.

taylor · **Reply #72 on:** October 16, 2005, 10:24:00 pm

Well, dynamically allocated collision pairs (on the plus side of 99,000 of them) later and the good guys get their butts whooped. Actually they get utterly stomped, very quickly. About 2 minutes into the mission and I was alone. Around 14 kills later and it was deathroll time for me too.

But it was still cool.

Ghost · **Reply #73 on:** October 16, 2005, 11:41:58 pm

I'm definitely playing this tomorrow. Those screenies look effing sweet.

TrashMan · **Reply #74 on:** October 17, 2005, 08:19:18 am

How big is hte normal ship limit (ships in mision at once - not counting waves)?
I recall making a few highly intense missions myself with TONS of ships and fighters, but I don't recall hitting the limit...yet

karajorma · **Reply #75 on:** October 17, 2005, 09:37:44 am

Well I've bounced off the hard limit of 400 ships in the game a few times while making these missions. However I doubt FRED will let you place anywhere near that many ships. I only got away with it cause I'm spawning them.

Galemp · **Reply #76 on:** October 17, 2005, 04:02:42 pm

Bearbaiting? Fa. This should be High Noon.

TrashMan · **Reply #77 on:** October 17, 2005, 04:15:40 pm

You don't need that many..in theory, with waves, you could put thousands of shps in the mission - the thing is, only 100 or so of them would be in the area at once.
Which is still significant.

karajorma · **Reply #78 on:** October 17, 2005, 04:37:30 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Galemp
Bearbaiting? Fa. This should be High Noon.

I said I'd be doing that one next

I've heard about the same number of complaints over the years about both missions

With luck I should be able to control the number of ships I'm spawning now that the SEXP is (hopefully) working properly which means I can balance the mission so that it's playable.

I should even be able to split the ships up between the two capital ships so that each one has a swarm of fighters over it

Charismatic · **Reply #79 on:** October 17, 2005, 08:32:58 pm

Quote

Why did I get an email about this being nominated as newsorthy?

That probably was me. I think this has great potential. Amazing eyecandy.

News:

Author Topic: And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY] (Read 33574 times)

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]

And The Sky Full Of Hercs [IMG HEAVY]