[StratComm]

Nuke's on the money

If you use the non-meshsmoothed version for LOD1 and have it kick in at some absurdly close distance (15-25m) and then use a much lower-poly LOD for LOD2 (with a viewing distance of 50+m) then it should be exceptionally rare that you have more than one of these things being rendered at any time.

[Nuke]

my mod never drops below 20 fps, thats on a low end geforce 4 and a sub-semi high perfromance (yet aging) machine. not one 20 ships has so much as a single lod, some geting up to 10000 polies. my exclusive use of compressed textures is probibly keeps the game playable.

[Ace]

*looks at the latest textured Cylon raider model*

Nice work, even though it does look like a Dralthi with a Centurion's head mounted on it (but that's not your fault)

[deep_eyes]

Originally posted by StratComm
Nuke's on the money

If you use the non-meshsmoothed version for LOD1 and have it kick in at some absurdly close distance (15-25m) and then use a much lower-poly LOD for LOD2 (with a viewing distance of 50+m) then it should be exceptionally rare that you have more than one of these things being rendered at any time.

even so if u ever observed a multiplayer dogfight or even the AI fighitng in first player, they tend to buzz around each other within 30 meters of each other. So u might not wana have that MUCH detail on the raider, the hi poly model itself may be too much especially for those systems that cant support that kind of processing power.

[Omniscaper]

You know what, the 1660 version looks PRETTY NICE in game. Check these out.

[deep_eyes]

own3d!

[Omniscaper]

Yes the red eyes are ANIMATED.

WE NEED MORE 3D MODELERS and TEXUTURE ARTISTS!!!!

[Falcon]

*is speechless*

[MetalDestroyer]

It looks REAL !!!

[Omniscaper]

"What IS real? How do you DEFINE real" -Morpheus

I got iimpatient with my progress modelling the Galactica. So, you'll get a kick outa this, I decided to push SCP's polylimits by porting over my source model of my homebrewing Galactica. To my surprise the engine handled 50,000+ polygons with only a 50 percent reduction to FPS!

 60fps seems to be the cap on my computer (how you folks are achieving 120fps is beyond me)

My Computer specs are:
Dual 2.66ghz Xeon cpus
1gb pc2100
Geforce 6600gt 128mb
Audigy 2








I think Scifi Channel's website exagerated a bit when stating Galctica's dimensions. According to their specs, the Galactica is 5 times larger than the one I'm showing. Talk about beefcake battleship.

[WMCoolmon]

Disable v-sync, I'm not sure if that option's still in the Launcher, but that should probably do it.

Does this mean you'll be converting the hi-poly Raider?

[Omniscaper]

HOLY SMOKES I even had antialiasing on a 4x on those screenshots! I disabled v-sync and it revealed much tearing on the model.

[Col. Fishguts]

Your max fps depends on the refresh rate you have set in Windows for the specific resolution/color depth you're running FSO.

[MetalDestroyer]

Originally posted by Omniscaper
http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/CylGame3.jpg

I'm talking about textures. They looks like more realistic than the same model into 3DS.

[Raptor]

Your not the only one who can model vipers, Omni...

Swamp_thing, your going to like this...

A vintage 1978 Viper Mark II, with modelled in pilot.


2249 polys, one single UVmap.

Excuse the texturing, I'm terrible at doing those.  This is really just to ensure that the model (and the ship.tbl entry) works:thepimp:

Been thinking about posting this for ages...

[Nuke]

damn that omni must be a cylon, no human can crank out such kickass models this fast

[stithe2000]

You would be amased what us modellors can do with enough caffeine

[Ace]

I would have expected a 50k poly Galactica to have the ribbing modeled. A version with the ribbing a much higher res textures would be nice.

[StratComm]

Yeah that model is... interesting.  The ribbing isn't moddeled, but by the looks of it a lot of texturable detail (provided that you don't actually make her that big) modeled in.  Seems like it should go the other way.

[Bobboau]

the cylon ship I don't like ther very tips of the wings, there has to be some way to end them that doesn't just bring 12 polygons to a single point.