[Taristin]

It's 13,609 polies with nothing but this LOD and the turrets, and claw! :D:D

Imagine! And it ran smoothly on my AMD Duron 600, and GeForce 2 MX 400, 32 Mb PCI video card, with textures in excess of 2000 x 2000!

This was amazing! I wanna convert all of my subdivided Vasudan models!

[Flipside]

That is awesome!

Couldn't have too many on screen at once unless you had some high spec card, but it's a perfect example of what the SCP is capable of Could you post a bigger one of it?

Flipside

Edit : Oh, no of course you cant, the in game stuff needs a little work before you can do lvlshot on it Still, looks great

[Taristin]

I do have an image of it, but the claw is rotating in a wierd way. Plus it's not a real good high-res image. Would you like a copy of the pof? To play with on your system?

[Bobboau]

wait, you have a PCI card!
wow, this is working even better than I thought it would, all the geometry must be getting stored on the card, otherwise you would be getting quite a slow down with a PCI card, what was your frame rate?

[Taristin]

Well, in most missions it's 25. If I look at a sun, it's 6, and if I do the mission with the Anuket alone, it's 37.

Edit: That ship there runs smoother than the Hathespsut does without smoothening.

[Sticks]

I think this is also the problem with missions crashing on cards with little memory (32Mb or less). I think we're storing every buffer in video memory for each ship, so if we can't allocate a buffer, there doesn't seem to be graceful error checking in place.

[Taristin]

I do intend to buy a new card. I wanted to get an AGP version of the Radeon 9200, but when I moved, the side of my AGP socket cracked, and I have to finnagle the card to get it to work properly, otherwise the whole system makes a funny beep, whirrrrr, beep, then nothing.

Would it be wise to spend $100 and not know if it'll work?

I have the card set to use up to 70 Mb of system memory, but I doubt it does it.

[Starks]

That is one beautiful Zepthyrus!

[Taristin]

Originally posted by LLivingLarge
That is one beautiful Zepthyrus!

*smacks LLivingLarge *

That's an Anuket!!!

[Starks]

I always mix those two gas miners up... Both have such exotic designs.

[Taristin]

The Zephyrus isn't so exotic...  But I would love to see more Vasudan vessels like the Anuket.

I loooove the scoope behind the gas chambers, they are so teh siht!

[Drew]

someone needs to put together a tutorial telling us how to put these together

BTW what build Fs2 build did you use?

[Taristin]

FS2_open_htl.exe  it's the one in that bug reporting thread, I think

[Drew]

but in your picture the anuket is spec mapped....
my FS2_open_htl.exe didnt spec map.........

[Taristin]

Odd, mine did...

[Bobboau]

it should

what is your hardware

[Drew]

pent. 4 2.0ghz
256megs DDR
Radeon 9k 64mb
(the latest fs2_open_r.exe build spec map just fine on my machine
EDIT: Is HT&L implemented in fs2_open_r.exe?)

BTW, did you actually see this in a mission???

[Setekh]

Snipes, that's awesome. Great work - see if you can get some closer shots and really show off that detail, it might be good for a news post.

Originally posted by Drew
but in your picture the anuket is spec mapped....
my FS2_open_htl.exe didnt spec map.........

You did keep your flags in the launcher, right..? Specular worked fine on my HT&L build.

[Lightspeed]

hmm, i kinda prefer the original model. I dont see much apparent change in shape, and the textures applied look weird (especially that color thing at the bottom).

Maybe if we'd have a closer view shot -- i'd really like to see where all those polies have gone.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Setekh
Snipes, that's awesome. Great work - see if you can get some closer shots and really show off that detail, it might be good for a news post.

Absolutely. In game shot here. The claw's missing (well, not missing, you can see it off behind the main body, doing it's thing. ) because rotation is funny in HT&L, but here you go. I made the mistake of trying to fire a laser at it, and it crashed, but that's probably like Bob said, small memory amounts.

Originally posted by Lightspeed
hmm, i kinda prefer the original model. I dont see much apparent change in shape, and the textures applied look weird (especially that color thing at the bottom).

 You see no difference between that model up there, and this one here?