[J3Vr6]

So Raa Tor'h, you gonna do this for all the Vasudan ships?  While you're at it, why don't you do all the FS2 ships to take advantage of HT&L

[SadisticSid]

That's not really a fair comparison, taking a variably-lit shiny ship and comparing it to the old, drab, uniformily lit one. But the new model is definitely nicer. The rotating thingumy, especially, is smoother.

[Flipside]

I wouldn't suggest doing it for all ships, I don't think Raa is even suggesting that he do it for all Vasudan ships, it is a 'Party piece' really, upping level to massive amount on all ships would still cripple lower spec cards. I think the best bet would be to up the polys on the ships that need it, rather than everything, although poly counts mean less in HT&L, as Bobb's Perseus shows, sometimes it will have virtually no effect on the shape of the model at all, so it's really being a bit silly to do it to ALL the ships and putting unneccessary strain on systems when the free cycles could be used for other stuff

Flipside

[Galemp]

Just remember to SEPERATE BY SMOOTHING GROUPS!

[Flipside]

Well, part of the problem is that a lot of these subdivider functions will transform a flat surface into a very gradual curve, thus using about 120 polys to display what previously took 2 if you over do it, and makes your model look overweight if you under do it, so the side of an orion not only starts to look 'curvy' but uses up a much larger number of polys.
As far as smoothing groups are concerned, never even figured out what the were to be honest, I makes the ships, bung em through PCS, chuck em into modelview for other little bits and away you go, or more commonly, debugging you go!

Flipside

Edit : The worlds shortest modelling tutorial

[diamondgeezer]

That Anuket's ****ing beautiful, to put it bluntly

[Taristin]

Originally posted by J3Vr6
So Raa Tor'h, you gonna do this for all the Vasudan ships?  While you're at it, why don't you do all the FS2 ships to take advantage of HT&L

Actually, the Vasudan vessels of FS2 do beneift from it, but alas, I can't convert them. I had no slowdowns when running a mission with it, in fact, it was actually a higher framerate than with original FS2 models...

The problem is, that PCS is woefully horrid on my PC. When I attempt to convert the cob to a pof it crashes. And after I got the converted pof from Bob, and imported all of the data from the orginal, it crashed on each and every save. Oddly enough, though, it did save...

[Bobboau]

that is odd

get an extreem close up, like filling the screen with the ship

[Setekh]

Yeah, that's what I had in mind - that shot you provided isn't very close to the Anuket.

[Taristin]

I would, but my new Radeon 9200 won't do spec in HT&L. Spec works in the non HT&l though...

[Setekh]

*raised eyebrow* Wierd, even my GF4MX still renders specular... well, just wait for the next build, then. Either that, or try and fit the however-many-thousand-poly Anuket into the non-HT&L build.

[ChronoReverse]

=( to that Raa Tor'h

On the other hand, it does it fine on my GF2MX (albeit not very quickly, but still playable as long as it's the HT&L build)

[Bobboau]

I would like to see the regular build vs the HT&L build, if the regular build was capable of suporting such an oversized POF

[Taristin]

It's not... And my Card just got broke. Have to try and return it...

[Bobboau]

how'd that hapen?

[Taristin]

My AGP slot is cracked on the far thin end, and the card moved out of alignment. 2 prongs touched, and one of the gold-plated contacts completely melted..