[Mr_Maniac]

I like the Lucy!
It's still the best destroyer!
I hope that the HTL-Versions will be finished somewhen...

[Flaser]

Check the link VA gave to see in progress pictures of the model.
(http://www.sectorgame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1639)

You should d/l - the txt files and rename them jpg.

[redmenace]

Originally posted by Vasudan Admiral
Triton's done, but again waiting for the Lucy.



Ah, TP beat me to it.

And the other ship would be the re-release of the Fenris - with merged maps and numerous other bugfixes and optimisations. (including map merged versions of Lighty's pair)

Those screenshots will look even better with the new turret code.

[StratComm]

What, this turret code?  Well, animation code anyway.



EDIT: Levelshot for the love of god.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Originally posted by Flaser
You should d/l - the txt files and rename them jpg.

Doesn't just clicking the links open them in a new browser?
Oh - dang. Just discovered that firefox doesn't do that :\
Uh, my apologies to anyone who had to d/l them and manually change the extension just to see some lousy screens.

Here's some more up to date ones (sorry any 56kers ):
http://www.geocities.com/vasudanad/HTL-luciferWIP10.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/vasudanad/HTL-luciferWIP11.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/vasudanad/HTL-luciferWIP12.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/vasudanad/HTL-luciferWIP13.jpg
Just got the tail to go now.

edit: changed to links - see below for the non-bandwidth exceeded ones.

[StratComm]

Wow.  The jaw smily just wouldn't do that justice.  However, I will ask why you indented the front; that change seems detractive as the panel that was there before looked better planer mapped than an inset ever will.

[Taristin]

Well, two of them worked before, and after a refresh, none do...

[Night Hammer]

i clicked on em....

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[Vasudan Admiral]

Oh dear:
"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information.
Access to this site will be restored within an hour. Please try again later.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudanad/HTL-luciferWIP10.txt"


*wishes we had sectorfiles back up* :\

[Vasudan Admiral]

Well, here's a second set anyways. I'll edit the previous to be links.





Oh, and the indented front is there because the original high poly lucy we see in the cutscenes had that - i thought it looked cool and so replicated it.

[neo_hermes]

Dude! that is one nice HTL Lucifer! have you tried putting it in game? Also what ship are you goin to HTL next?

[Mongoose]

Unbelievable. I don't even want to think about how much trouble my system will have managing it, but at this point, I'm still drooling over that.

[Night Hammer]

oh dear god:shaking:  wow

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Mongoose
Unbelievable. I don't even want to think about how much trouble my system will have managing it, but at this point, I'm still drooling over that.

It's not the polies that cause FPS hits, it's the textures. The more textures - and the larger those textures are - the slower the computer is.

I can vouch for this in working with the interface. Initially, displaying bitmaps individually, I could not go over about 30 instances of an image shown at a time without significant slowdowns. (ie it got to be virtually unusable past that point.) That was using the same 16x16 image for every instance. Once Bobb provided me with a new function that told the video card to specifically use the same texture for all the instances of the image, things were basically as responsive as without any images being displayed, although the same number of polies were being shown.

This is why it's important to use as few different textures as possible on ships.

[Mr_Maniac]

Hmm...
I really need more RAM soon...
512 MB are too less...

[Vasudan Admiral]

I'll be cutting the texture count on the lucy down to a single 2048 res map - which should be a great help to performance, and i'll also be making a mid-range version with about .... 2000 polys - at a guess. This high poly one will probably come in at about 8000 ish.

Oh, and for which ship to do next, i'll be doing up old TI ships for a while after this, but the Poesidon is next on the list, possibly followed by the eleysium, iceni (and thus the breakable-asteroid-station-i-won't-even-try-to-spell), medical frigate and argo in something approaching that order.

Actually - the ravana does sound like a good challenge.
*adds to very long to do list*

[Carl]

HOORAYS @ THE HTL LUCY!!!!

[Jetmech Jr.]

Way to go. Far beyond what I was expecting.

Are the Maps gonna be the Animated sort?

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Vasudan Admiral
I'll be cutting the texture count on the lucy down to a single 2048 res map - which should be a great help to performance, and i'll also be making a mid-range version with about .... 2000 polys - at a guess. This high poly one will probably come in at about 8000 ish.

Oh, and for which ship to do next, i'll be doing up old TI ships for a while after this, but the Poesidon is next on the list, possibly followed by the eleysium, iceni (and thus the breakable-asteroid-station-i-won't-even-try-to-spell), medical frigate and argo in something approaching that order.

Actually - the ravana does sound like a good challenge.
*adds to very long to do list*

Using a single 2048² map should be no problem at all.
It won't need much memory as soon as it's compressed to DDS.
Just make sure it uses a compressed shine and glow map too.


The landscape in the SF mod has several 2048² maps and it still runs smooth on low-end PCs. (As long as you don't try to use uncompressed maps )

[Trivial Psychic]

I suggest you use 16-bit TGA for the glowmaps.  Lightspeed was using 8-bit pcx for his glowmaps, but its well known that 8-bit pcx is loaded into memory as though it was 16-bit.  So, we could get better quality with no performance loss if the glowmap is 16-bit tga.  Main map and shine-env maps should be 32-bit DDS though.