[Taristin]

I was looking at the "One year ago today" section on the main page, and found Mik's Herc 1 model thread. All of the images were gone, except for this one:




Well? It looks like it'll work with HT&L... Where is it? Mik! Speak up!

[karajorma]

IIRC it was around 50,000 polys so I don't think it would work with HT&L after all.

[Sheepy]

some cropping n you will be fine ... well something like that anyway.

[Bobboau]

it would work, but you'd only be abe to have two or three of them on screen and absolootly nothing else

[Lightspeed]

If you tone it down to ~ 3000-5000 polygons it'll work fine

[karajorma]

That would probably require a complete rebuild.

[Unknown Target]

Well, get rid of the venty things for starters. That'll really do the trick, methinks.

[HotSnoJ]

oops clicked post reply instead of new topic.

*drools like Woolie Wool*

[Woolie Wool]

*drool*

[adwight]

Now someone just needs to get a real picure so i can see what the whole thing looks like.  But from what I see it's awesome.

[Flaser]

Something could be done with the cockpit to show that there are actually two person inside - this would give a better sense of size, since these ships are huge.

[Unknown Target]

It's a one-person ship

[Nico]

Yeah, it is.

[Flaser]

Than the cockpit is huge - or all the Lifesupport is actually stuffed under the plexi dome.

[Nico]

No: the ingame model is just completly off, scale-wise: look at the herc in the FS2 intro.

[Sheepy]

all the scales are off, fighters are too big and caps are too small, but we knew this already.

[Nico]

What I mean is that in the intro, the Herc is scalled right.

[Flaser]

Venom....err Nico (I must get used to this ).

The scales of the models are all right - the in-game render is not.

As Sandwich found out everything is 1/20 of what they are supposed to be.

BTW all of the crafts in FS are huge - check the Depth of Field thread where Sandwich compared a tank to a Myrmidon - those are the sizes.

For once I think those scales are right - you have to stuff a fusion reactor and a very powerful engine along with a subspace engine into a fighter - you need a lot of space.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Flaser
As Sandwich found out everything is 1/20 of what they are supposed to be.

if everything in the universe was shrunken to 1/20th it's size, then there would be no difference.

[Flaser]

Nay - that's 'cause all the speeds in the game are apropiat - it would be as if you travelled 20 times faster BTW if your eye hadn't changed everything would look smaller.

Go check the thread - it was in SCP.