[Nuke]

my brand new pirate criuser keeps crashing the game upon pressing of the commit button. ive eliminated every problem save the model itself. the thing is i accidently used 18 different textures on the ship. aside from that the only other thing i can think of that could be wrong is that i uv mapped the model in truespace 6. any ideas?

[Bobboau]

I think it was limeted to 16 textures per subobject. wich is an insainly high number in itself. HT&L works largely by doing everything in batches therfore the fewer textures you use the better.

[Nuke]

i tracked down the problem down to too many fiing points on one of the turrets. it was the first time i used autogen to make that many turrets. it got the normals wrong but everything else worked. i just wasnt aware there was a limit to the number of points you could have. the hull of my ship only uses 8 textures, the other 10 are used on various turrets. i also noticed that the hecate uses 20 textures (which is probibly responsible for the "game slows down when something jumps in" bug)

[Bobboau]

well most of those textures are on loqwer LODs,
8 on one object isn't that bad, but the fewer the better
yeah there is a limit of four points to a turret

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Bobboau
yeah there is a limit of four points to a turret

4? I thought it was 3.

*Goes off to regun all his ships*

[Nuke]

i did that when i heard about gatling guns