[chief1983]

Yeah, I would much rather see some aggressive LODing, even if we have two ISD models that are LOD'd differently to do it.  One could be for missions with one or two, and another could be used in instances where there's going to be lots of them.  That should be fairly easy to accomplish once the high detail version is done.

[brandx0]

I wonder how much a performance hit we'd take if the ISD's greebles were normal mapped, it'd have to be a pretty damn large texture, compared to shaving off a few thousands polies.  If the Normal maps are more efficient, while the hand greebled ISD would be more visually impressive (and thus, better for missions with a single ISD), we could use the lower geometry, normal mapped one for missions involving lots of them.

I'll look into it once the ISD is done though, even if we only do normal maps, I'll need to finish my high poly geometry to be able to generate a normal map anyways

[chief1983]

It may come out of other necessity, such as the format being able to handle all that detail effectively.  Might not just be as simple a performance hit.

[brandx0]

That would be sad, when I started this thing I was told that I had a lot of leeway considering the BSG pegasus was something like 200k polies or some such nonsense

[chief1983]

Yeah, so hopefully we don't run into that.  It'll probably be something we can easily fix.