[Culando]

I hope I'm not being annoying by asking this, but is there a way I can view these new ships (Archangel and others in Trash's webspace) with the Model Viewer? It always complains to me about the poly count.

I always like to look at new ships I download in Modelview before playing with them in FRED.

[TrashMan]

You'll need to install Modelview Beta5 and then download the increased limits exe (which you simply replace with that one)...

[karajorma]

Wrong version of Modelview most likely.

Look here

[Culando]

Aha, got that increased limits version and it works now.

The Archangel looks really nice, but I think the front would look better a bit rounded. But that's just my opinion, and this is your model of course.

[Thrilla]

Originally posted by TrashMan




My point is - Can you make a ship that looks EXACTLY like this one when rendered with less polys? hardly.

Well, um yeah

[TrashMan]

Ummm...NO..

[StratComm]

Well, to make one exactly like that, not easily.  But close enough, absolutely.  There are tons of optimizations that can be done on virtually every point on the model.  Oh, and booleaning NEVER saves polys, for the record.

[TrashMan]

That depends....

I made a little test in which I made two ships that looked the same. One made without booleans, the other with.

Polycount was the same.....