[Dark RevenantX]

-{[The One Hundred Polygon Cruiser Constest]}-
In this contest, you have to make a cruiser with 100 polygons or less.  After one week, I will call a vote, and the winner will be the proud maker of the most fps-friendly capital ship in the game, while still looking good.

READYSETGO!!!!!

[Jake101]

I would enter this one, but it's too high poly.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,31639.0.html

[Taristin]

Here.


Oh wait. It's actually at 1300 polies currently.  Silly me.

[Dark RevenantX]

how bout you dont use rounded edges. like that awful utility frieghter, except with 100 polys not 20.

[Taristin]

Why, though? When 1300 polies has little effect on the FPS as it is.

[StratComm]

Raa, please tell me that's Vasudan

[FireCrack]

Raa's looks like a terran moloch.

[Trivial Psychic]

I don't think its about making something good, its about seeing who can make the best looking model with that little amount of polies.

[StratComm]

I can't even flesh out a general hull shape in 100 polys.  300, sure.  But 100's just too few.  I mean, I use turrets with more polys than that and don't think a thing about it.

[Carl]

you can always make a really highly detailed ship out of tens of thousands of polyons, render it, save the render as a .jpg, and use it as a texture map on a 2 polygon plane. Bam. 2 polygon cruiser.

[Grug]

@ Carl, but thats cheating.

I might take a poke at this. Does it have to be textured? Or just the kewlest looking model?

[aldo_14]

Why in the name of steve would you want to make a 100 poly cruiser in the first place?

[Grug]

For fun. And to take my mind off the constant pain in my gut.

[Omniscaper]

Originally posted by Carl
you can always make a really highly detailed ship out of tens of thousands of polyons, render it, save the render as a .jpg, and use it as a texture map on a 2 polygon plane. Bam. 2 polygon cruiser.

I thought about using that method for extreme distance lod's. Using 2 planes would be better though. Get a plane for X and Y axis intersecting.

[DaBrain]

Here is mine:






Wait, that would be 6k polies.

I think I'll take part in this contest. (Although I'm sure I will not win.)

[Singh]

huh. If you're going to throw that in, then I'm putting this in:

[DaBrain]

Ok, here is my 'real' first try:

(93 polygons, so I've 7 polies left for the turrets, duh )

I think 100 polies is a bad limit. Well, it is a challange.

[Luigi30]

Exactly 100 polys.





I'm a shoo-in because nobody else has made one in 100 or less!

[DaBrain]

Are you sure? I'm not able to make them out.


Anyway, looks like I won one cometition .


@Singh This model looks a bit like a boss in StarFox 1...
I think I should use this similey again:

[Thrilla]

that box is 100?  Kinda wasteful.