[Kie99]

Now try that using all the ships I did.

[Woomeister]

Umm no, that would probably crash my pc and I'm working on model updates at the moment

[Flaser]

Actually non-HTL ships are more likely to kill the framerate, since it's not pollycount that really punishes the engine but the number of textures/ship and non-HTL ships weren't made with that in mind.

[MetalDestroyer]

I can't imagine when fighters are in the area

[Woomeister]

Originally posted by Flaser
Actually non-HTL ships are more likely to kill the framerate, since it's not pollycount that really punishes the engine but the number of textures/ship and non-HTL ships weren't made with that in mind.

Those HTL ships use tile maps as well, so they are worse than non HTL ships as they also have larger polycounts.
I reverted to tile maps as the large high res maps were causing issues for lower spec systems, and they looked crap. I kept them for the lods though.

I reduced the number of maps on some ships to try and help. Don't know if we still need a bumped texture limit anymore.

[Trivial Psychic]

Here's hoping that Bob's WIP shaders can solve this and improve performance.

[T-Man]

What's with the really bright turrets in the second pic? Its almost like there holding up neon signs saying "SHOOT ME"

[Woomeister]

OGL shine effects seem to make sub-objects really shiny on my system. I have to make a near black shinemap to stop that, but then you don't get any shine at all.

[KappaWing]

I coulden't get close enough to tell for sure but it probably does.

[T-Man]

It does, you can check in the tech room.

[Kie99]

WTF Happened to the start of the thread?

[Woomeister]

Looks like the admins didn't restore it.

[Woomeister]

Looks like there might be about 2k+ posts missing from the INF forums.

I've asked for this thread to be restored. Might take some time though.

So I suppose I should take more shots then

[DaBrain]

More shots?

You won't get to see this very often - A Lindos going down.

[c914]

Nice explosion effect:nod:

[EtherShock]

I prefer the blue shockwaves myself. I just think they look cooler and stand out from the explosion, but I'm not going to be picky.

[Ashrak]

i like woos explo ... looks more realistic

[EtherShock]

Since we are dealing with Freespace, which is a futuristic, sci-fi world with things like anti-matter and subspace, I'd say something like the blue shockwave is possible in that universe, but hey, the new hi-res explosions look great. I just prefer blue.

[DaBrain]

Boom no. 2


Still wip...

[Dave2040]

OMG!
Nice effects!

Oh and btw so many destroyed fighters and destroyers?
Is there something going badly wrong?