[IceFire]

I'd shoot him with some nasty ray gun...but apparently I have a startling debilitation of a partial lobotomy.

[Stryke 9]

Ooh! Mind if I join?

[rolls in puddle of own filth]

[Liberator]

*raises Command on secured frequency*
*calls down beam salvo on specified coordiates*

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Riven
i didnt understand a lot of that but i'll play around and see what i come up with, unless someone wishes to help???;7Those who do help can use it for whatever they want and will be credited, i'm more of a concept man

Basically you have to make any ship out of smaller objects none of which can have any more than 820 polys.

As for intersecting polys it means that you can`t have one shape going through another. It looks okay in TS but the second you put it in FS2 you'll have problems.

[Riven]

can i make say the engines and ring seperate submodels? would this work if it's 820 per submodel and 5000 overall.

[CODEDOG ND]

Booleans anyone?

[LAW ENFORCER]

I really don't see the problem with high poly ships (more than 3000! dear me! 3000! is that it!!! AHH!! man! - I coulkd run that on a 450!

er.... anyway polys dont concern me however the detail is too low for that number less curves on the ship as a whole and more details!

[Riven]

so is there anything to stop FS from using models with a high polycount or is it just the computer? Because i'm using a 1.33Ghz AMD Athlon so i don't care about inferior people.

[Nico]

it's coded like that. break the polycount limit and you'll get the shards o' death. and FS2 will crash, you'll die, and it'll be the end of the world. it's bad.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Riven
so is there anything to stop FS from using models with a high polycount or is it just the computer? Because i'm using a 1.33Ghz AMD Athlon so i don't care about inferior people.

The game assigns memory for each model.  With 'normal' sized models, that's only enough memory for about 850 polys per object, plus a limit on the total number of objects.

[LAW ENFORCER]

source code is what I meant.... we make it more up to date!

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by LAW ENFORCER
source code is what I meant.... we make it more up to date!

Why?  The current limits have a benefit - they encourage people to actually concentrate on their models and be as efficient as possible.

[Fry_Day]

Why? The current limits have a benefit - they encourage people to actually concentrate on their models and be as efficient as possible.

On the other hand, you could say that they simply force people to create inferior models. It's like forcing someone to use the Quake 2 engine for a game instead of the Quake 3 engine. So what if he optimizes his models and levels more. It still looks worse, and both easily run fast enough on an average PC.

Besides, if the source-code is really brought up-to-date graphics-wise, the speed increase will be at least enough to triple the poly-counts on everything and get the same FPS.