[Omniscaper]

Its hard to say if its running faster or slower. With the regular build, I was able to get 120 fps with no AA or vertical sync with galactica by itself. What did you attempt to do (besides kill shine maps)?

I do find it strange that in both builds I get more fps reduction when there are 5 fighters on screen (1800 polys each) than a single 50k Galactica. The screenshot below would be running 120 fps without the Vipers on screen.

[Omniscaper]

[Omniscaper]

Current build (disabled specular to make it fair)


Your provided build


Got a boost of 7 fps. Activating Speculars in the current build drops framrate to 42 fps. Its progress nontheless.

BUT LOOK AT IT. Thats a total of 300k polys your looking at! Now I'm realy baffled. The screen with the Vipers have a total of 50k (BSG) + 14k (7x Vipers).

Thats 64k running SLOWER than a a screen with 300k. Perhaps its an AI thing stealing CPU cycles?



Made tweaked spec maps.... purdy 120 fps of Galactica!



NOTE: This will NOT be used in the BSG Project. 50k is a bit too much considering the FPS drop caused by the fighters. But it is the reference model I'm using to build a 15-18k version which will use the SAME texture base (will uberize) which come from the ZOIC's (BSG's chosen animation studio) renders.

This model was made by  "MadJohn"  for a BSG ship pack for Bridge Commander.
http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/Reinvisioned_Galactica_Ship_Pack;36087

[Falcon]

But me wants it!

[Bobboau]

hmm, that build I posted KILLS shinemaps?

[Omniscaper]

Well, it kills the feature, not the actuall textures.

[Bobboau]

I don't supose you'd be able to tell me what the MaxSimultaneousTextures device cap is on your card?

[Omniscaper]

How do I find that info out?

[Overlord]

It's 8 simultaneous textures.

Some other infos:
MaxTexture: 4096x4096
MaxAnisotropy: 16
MaxTextureBlendStages: 8
MaxActiveLights: 8
MaxStreams: 16

[Bobboau]

well then that isn't it... /*puzzeled*/

the thing is that build is suposed to fix shinemaps on the radeon cards. and it has 1/3rd the render passes, so it should be quite fast as well... hmmm I heard that nVidia cards had odd VS suport

[Inquisitor]

Technical glitches aside, that still looks fantastic.

I mean FANTASTIC.

[Omniscaper]

Bob, I tried the build on a different computer with a Radeon 9500 pro. It fixed the shine mapping on that computer. Kills it for my nvidia.

[Anaz]

seems that we've got round 2 of the graphics card wars...

My highly uneducated guess is that either the AI or the engine glows is killing performace, as your galacticas don't seem to have them. It'd be interesting to put engine glows on the galacticas/remove them on fighters, or change them back to FS2 defaults, and see what the difference is.

Great job here omni, and I want to see modeled ribs

[DrunkenPirate]

I must say this is outstanding work Omniscaper.

[Omniscaper]

Danka

[deep_eyes]

I think this means that FS2 is now ATI ONLY LMAO! but yea i noticed that about the PCs specs nowadays.

so i think most pcs in todays standards can run efficently.

[Omniscaper]

It better not be. I bought my Geforce just to get shinies back on my FSO.

[Flaser]

Originally posted by Anaz
seems that we've got round 2 of the graphics card wars...

My highly uneducated guess is that either the AI or the engine glows is killing performace, as your galacticas don't seem to have them. It'd be interesting to put engine glows on the galacticas/remove them on fighters, or change them back to FS2 defaults, and see what the difference is.

Great job here omni, and I want to see modeled ribs

IMHO that isn't likely. The thruster graphics aren't really different from the rest of the effects - just a texture rescaled it shouldn't be a performance hit.

What truely benches my system are the ani-files. Though strangely I can manage Lighty's ani-glow's fine, while the smoking particle ani truely knocks the air out of my poor card.

[Setekh]

Wow, slow to spot this. Awesome... amazing what FSO's capable of these days.

[Flipside]

It also shows how a well-made shine-map can almost take the place of a bump-map.

It still amazes me that FS2's shine capabilities are beyond those of 3DS Max & Lightwave, which can only use a greyscale. In a way, you've actually found a very fast way of doing radiosity... which is pretty stunning!