[The E]

Well, as you know, several of Steve-O's models were used in WiH. While they are pretty, they are also resource hogs, nomming FPS on even moderately powerful systems. Now, we tried to get them optimized, but unfortunately, that process was going on too slow for my taste. So I decided to try it myself, and here are the results.

The following notes apply:
1. I am not a modeller, I only press buttons to make stuff happen. As a result, a few of these models suffer from rendering glitches (Only noticeable in the Tech room or on loadout screens), which I can't correct. Also, the Auto-UVing I did sometimes ****ed up a bit, see the Hellraiser for an example.
2. No tbl entries are included. You have to provide those yourself
3. The Thor's normal map isn't finished yet.
4. Thor's maps are still in tga
5. A few of the texture names refer to the BP names for these ships.


But anyway, here's the download. Enjoy.

http://blueplanet.fsmods.net/E/steveo.7z

[MatthTheGeek]

*** MatthTheGeek aggressively jumps on the link ***

[SypheDMar]

This is one overlooked commodity that shouldn't have been overlooked.

[Hellstryker]

Would be awsmz if somebody could do a WiH patch using these.

[General Battuta]

It's in the cards, but these aren't quite where we want them to be yet.

[Talon 1024]

I'm working on a new UVMap and normalmap for the Lancer/Uhlan.  The existing one doesn't have a UV layout that is easy for texture artists to work with, and it also doesn't have a good quality normalmap.

[Dragon]

If possible, could you make sure your normal map is similar to The_E's ones?
It'd be good for consistency, right now, the Lancer stands out among these fighters due to a vastly different normal map.

[Talon 1024]

Yeah, I tried my best to keep my normalmap consistent with the ones E made.  Anyway, here it is.  Note that it doesn't come with table entries because I'm assuming people are going to overwrite any existing models with this one.

[Droid803]

what happened to the pilot dude?
D:

[The E]

Uhhh

The normal map is broken. You're using the wrong colour channels, I would refer you to Herra's GIMP tutorial for reference regarding which channels are supposed to be used.

EDIT:

Here's a version of the same fighter, but with a fixed normal map and a fixed shine map (Yours was a bit too much like a mirror for my tastes, so I fixed it).

http://blueplanet.fsmods.net/E/Uhlan.7z

[Talon 1024]

what happened to the pilot dude?
D:

Uhhh

The normal map is broken. You're using the wrong colour channels, I would refer you to Herra's GIMP tutorial for reference regarding which channels are supposed to be used.

Fixed and fixed.  Sorry about that.  I just updated the 7z that I posted previously.  The newest version of my Lancer includes E's fixed shine map as well.

EDIT: Updated again.  For some reason, the mipmaps on E's fixed shinemap were not working properly.

EDIT2: Updated yet again.  Apparently, the build of PCS2 I was using (the one with Spicious' new BSP code) wasn't loading the glowpoint sizes from the BP Uhlan model.

[Dragon]

One more thing, glowpoints on your version have 0 radius (perhaps conversion messed them up a bit).
It's an easy fix though.

[Luis Dias]

So what are the FPS gains, in say, Delenda Est?

[The E]

They're noticeable. However, since the big models like the Karuna and Sanctus are still horrible performance suckers, you still get a slowdown near them.