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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: bizzybody on August 28, 2006, 02:34:37 am

Title: Fighter models, solid or multi-piece?
Post by: bizzybody on August 28, 2006, 02:34:37 am

What's the typical style of model for FS2 fighters? Having the mesh one solid model or having more than one part 'glued' together. (Obviously moving turrets on cap ships have to be seperate pieces.)

Title: Re: Fighter models, solid or multi-piece?
Post by: Scooby_Doo on August 28, 2006, 03:53:07 am

Me, personally, I uses a few pieces.  Makes it easier to track down bugs when converting.  Course it all depends on the shape.

Title: Re: Fighter models, solid or multi-piece?
Post by: TrashMan on August 28, 2006, 07:32:27 am

Muti-piece. In hte end you end up with less polies and can map it better :D

Title: Re: Fighter models, solid or multi-piece?
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 29, 2006, 04:27:21 pm

I used to make all my models multipiece, but it was too frustrating to attach them all at the end.

Title: Re: Fighter models, solid or multi-piece?
Post by: Bobboau on August 29, 2006, 08:05:01 pm

back in the day you would have been slowly boiled alive for even consitering the use of multable objects, but nowadays, it isn't that big of a deail and in fact  you sort of have to for certan types of effects (glass/cockpits,detail boxes).