[kasperl]

some of that might be done with very creative specmappong, perhaps......

[diamondgeezer]

You'll get well-rounded stuff - fine-scale erosion is due to micro-meteorite impacts. Observe:



(courtesy of NASA)

Glad to see someone working on it, though - I was all set to bump this thread tonight I'd rally like to see those babies rounded off some, Ryx

[Ryx]

Rounding off, it is.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Kalfireth

 

I really must remember to rip off that design someday.........

[Flipside]

Well, I sort of get this effect.,...





This is a 2 hour throwtegether jobby, so it could look better, but I can have a crack at the standard solid FS2 ones

That's 250 polys, which I reckon is about the maximum you could need, you don't want to waste too many polygons on them. Biggish textures though, 1024 x 1024.

Flipside

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

That's definately much, much better than the originals

[karajorma]

A huge improvement.

[Fineus]

Agreed, now make thousands of them for variety

[c914]

Those one are realy good:yes: . Now they almoast look like real asteroids almoast becouse they need craters

[Nico]

Funny, thry look like the roids in Eve

[JarC]

Originally posted by Ryx
Btw the pics are of the same asteroid with LODs.

I like the  rocks rough. Afterall, there's no erosion in space, right?

BUZZZZ! wrong answer, erosion is even higher since there's no atmosphere to burn up the spacedust...and it is just the little particles which would erode the surface of an asteroid the most...especially since an asteroidfield/ring usually has lots of dust floating around in it...

[Nico]

Originally posted by JarC
especially since an asteroidfield/ring usually has lots of dust floating around in it...

Asteroid fields as scene in movies or games, technically, don't exist
The roids in a roid field are usually hundreds of kilometers aparts. I highly doubt there's a lot of dust there. So let's not go into scientific details when talking about roids, shall we?
I think round roids are boring, btw.

[JarC]

think relative...when I say 'lots of dust' I do not ofcourse mean you can swipe a finger over a ledge to see it...but without atmosphere the effect is the same as sandblasting...

[Nico]

I doubt it, or else the roids would be long gone

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Flipside
Well, I sort of get this effect.,...

Ast01.jpg

Ast02.jpg

This is a 2 hour throwtegether jobby, so it could look better, but I can have a crack at the standard solid FS2 ones

That's 250 polys, which I reckon is about the maximum you could need, you don't want to waste too many polygons on them. Biggish textures though, 1024 x 1024.

Flipside

now that's a way to use shinemaps!

would you mind uploading/contributing those to FSCZ?

also, what kind of performance drain do you get with a full field of em?
and is this one map, or multiple?

[Ryx]

Quick and ugly(?). Just slapped on a meshmooth on there. As you can see polycount went up quite a bit. As befor LODs on the sides.

Now you got high-poly asteroids.

[Fineus]

...Perfect! That's exactly the kind of look I was talking about. Congratulations sir on a job well done!!

[Setekh]

That's an improvement. How many polys have they moved up to now?

[Fineus]

960 is apparently the highest poly LOD there is. I wonder how they run in game...

[kasperl]

960 sounds pretty damn lethal.

i like Flipsides idea of just using the new maps given by the SCP guys a lot better, IMO.