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Offline Boomer

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Stupid Poly question....
I have a turret.  It is a very nice turret.  I like this turret.  However, I believe it may be too heavy on the polies to be useful.  In fact, it has over 1000 polies.  with HT&L, can I make reqular use of this turret? Or will it go the way of the dinosaurs? =@
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Offline FireCrack

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Stupid Poly question....
what's "regular"

As long as the overall ship has a decent polycount you will be ok.
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Offline brugger

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Stupid Poly question....
it depends if this turret is used 15 times or once or twice. only using one map will also do a lot to keep the turret useable.

 

Offline WMCoolmon

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Stupid Poly question....
Yeah, you can, especially if you use Bobb's submodel LOD code.
-C

 

Offline Boomer

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Stupid Poly question....
Well, I ask because I'm using the turret, or a minor variation there of about 24 times and I just thought that might be a little too much for most of the communities video cards.  Right there is a minimum 24000 polies, and that doesn't even include the the ship and other types of turrets.
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Offline Roanoke

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Stupid Poly question....
Yeah, that's overkill

 

Offline Boomer

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Stupid Poly question....
I guess I'll keep, the 8, I've put in but I'll have to find an alternate model for the other ones.  In case you're wondering how the hell someone can have 1000 polies in a turret, its a round multi-part.  Spheres=uberpolies.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Stupid Poly question....
Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Bobb's submodel LOD code.
-C

 

Offline Roanoke

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Stupid Poly question....
Post a picture.

 

Offline Boomer

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Stupid Poly question....
Here's the turret:

and here's the ship w\some turrets:


I couldn't find my up to date one, so I used an older backup.

@WM:  I don't know how to use Bobb's submodel LOD code.
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Offline StratComm

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Stupid Poly question....
You know, you could just use much lower-poly spheres for the turret base.  It's not like you're going to be production-rendering this thing for a film or something.  We can deal with a little bit of spec oddity in exchange for reasonable polycounts.
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Last edited by StratComm on 08-23-2027 at 08:34 PM

  

Offline Boomer

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Stupid Poly question....
Hmmm.  I'm experimenting along that angle right now.  Ah, the trouble one can get into when one has no clue what one is doing.
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A man once came to me and asked me to express a profound thought.  I told him.....<Static>...

Look on the bright side, it looks absolutely nothing like a penis.-Turambar

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