[redmenace]

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Nico


I can't say.

*doesn't get it*

*sleeps*

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by redmenace

I hope you didn't think I was at all serious in any way.

[KARMA]

I was away for military service and...
:drool:

wow!

[redmenace]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


I hope you didn't think I was at all serious in any way.

no, but I thought I would post that anyway

[Nico]

GWaaaaah!

It's done.

[Sheepy]

excellent, she looks gorgeous, but you knew that already ... now all we need is some ingame screenies

Also whats the weapon set up like on this beast?

[Nico]

you already have ingame screeshots on the previous page.
weapon setting: 8 gunpoints, 6 missile points.

[Fineus]

Overpowered?

[Nico]

Balanced by fluff. The one who would put more than 4 Ezechiels in a mission would be worthy of a good spankage.

It had 8 gunpoints in OTT, but wasn't overpowered at all ( was kind of couterbalanced by the fact it's quite large, which is a real drawback, believe me, or ask Icefire, that made him pull his hair of frustration ), and I just couldn't tone it down

The Ezechiel B ( two seated one ) will have 4 guns, but a larger secondary payload. But it's not gonna be done anytime soon.

[Black Wolf]

There's quite a significant quality jump between lods 0 and 1 in that pic...

[Nico]

well yeah, considering there's one less 0 in the polycount, and the map goes from 2048*2048 to 256*256
It's a lod, it's supposed to ease the CPU work, so that's how it is. Since Lod1 will appear ingame farther away than in that pic, you shouldn't notice it anyway. And that lod still looks better than the original ezechiel in OTT ( save for the map, was 512*512 ).

[Black Wolf]

The problem is, the game uses the second LoD in the little target box, so as a personal choice, I tend to prefer fairly detailed second lods, with bigger breaks for the third and fourth, but that's just me.

That said, if it is more detailed than the OTT Exechial, maybe at least the 512x512 map is in order? I can't see it adding too much to the performance, and it would at least make the lod more recognizeable.

[Nico]

it's not more detailled ( it's half the OTT eze main lod polycount ), it just looks better
The little target box, as you say, is "little"
And who gives a damn about how the ship looks like in the target box, as soon as it's not a square with stretched maps? If you recognize the ship on first sight in the windows and don't go "huh!", it's fine by my standards. Remember the main lod is more than 4000 poly, there's some sacrifices to be made for that. Would be kind of annoying if people were going "yeah, your ship looks cool, but I'm not using it coz it makes my PC lag".
As you say, personal choice.

[Anaz]

You should make the pilot's helmet an individual debris chunk...

And that's a beauty of a ship

[KARMA]

my suggest is to use a 512x512 in the lod1, and use lod0 at a closer range
actually since pcs support 6 LODS, the SCP guys should really enable the 2 additional LODs in FSO, it's necessary for uberdetailed ships like this one

[aldi]

Nico when are going to release this great ship.

[Nico]

Anaz, Aldi, read the whole thread, will you?

Karma, yeah, I could, but I think I'm at my limit with that ship, if I have to touch it up again, I'll break something, my computer or my ankle most likely

[ShadowDrakken]

Nico: hehe, I think they know it's for private use only at the moment, but surely you'll release it in the future when you're done with it right? *hopeful wishing*

[Nico]

It'll be released alongside the campaigns that use it, don't worry.