[Fractux]

Man I can't wait to fly through that

[gevatter Lars]

That what I call a good crossfire...also nice model.
Can't wait to see when its finished.

[Deepblue]

Whered da shinies go?

[Deepblue]

And you're going to make all those weapons flak right? :devil:

[Fractux]

Originally posted by Deepblue
And you're going to make all those weapons flak right? :devil:

Not all of those were flak in the show. All of the small turrents seem only to shoot shells (explosive tipped??), while the seem to shot shoot flak shells.

At least, that's how it was shown in the battle at the the end of the pilot episode.

[Omniscaper]

183 turrets implemented.... with unexpected results.

I guess each turret takes up a cpu cycle because my usual 80-120 fps has been reduced to 10-24 fps. I was surprised a model with 183 turrets even converted. I checked Fred and it shows only ~120. Not all the turrets are even firing. I set the normals to all the turrets... so much wasted time!

Either way I think I'm gonna have to compromise and settle with MUCH less. Say around 30.

I'll have a video sample of my test in 20 minutes.

[WMCoolmon]

As I understand it, multipart turrets are limited by the MAX_ROTATING_SUBMODELS limit; I bumped this in my latest build, it should also tell you if you're over the limit with a debug build.

It'd be nice to profile the code with this model, or at least know whether the dramatic speed decrease is because of the number of turret AIs, or if it's from actually rendering them. I'm sure the AI turret code could be optimized.

[Omniscaper]

Only 23 of the 183 are rotating turrets. Even when they're NOT firing, the BSG in a scene by itself, reduced my max FPS to ~30. The actuale base model is no more than 20 polygons.

[Omniscaper]

Video still uploading... it will be 17mb using quicktime format with mpeg4 compression.

Here are some model screenies

[Omniscaper]

This is a 17mb video, so dial-up folks beware.....

You'll need quicktime.... tell me if it works


http://www.penguinbomb.com/omniscaper/WIPS/BSGturrets.mov

[WMCoolmon]

AHA!

Code: [Select]

#define MAX_AIFFT_TURRETS 60
ship_subsys *aifft_list[MAX_AIFFT_TURRETS];
float aifft_rank[MAX_AIFFT_TURRETS];

[Omniscaper]

And that code means?

[Anaz]

your link is a bit borked up omni. It's got the ...'s in the URL

Edit: Lets do the time warp again!

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Omniscaper
http://www.penguinbomb.com/omniscap.../BSGturrets.mov

Um... fix your link.

[Omniscaper]

Done

[StratComm]

Sounds like the number of usable turrets is capped at 60.  Explains what happened to the Colossus.

[WMCoolmon]

http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/latest/fs2_open_bsg_d.zip

Try that build; after further inspection it looks like that limit controls the maximum number of subsystems a turret can cycle through to find a target, though.

I also made some optimizations that should speed up the turret AI code a lot when operating with no enemies present. Whether that'll be noticeable, I dunno.

If you want a release build, I'd be happy to compile one.

[Deepblue]

Does that build have your latest cool stuff?

[WMCoolmon]

Of course.

I think I did a CVS update before I built it, too.