[Omniscaper]

I think this mesh has reached the point of presentation quality. Its currently at 32k polys and growing. Textures are still in the works.

[Taristin]

* Raa points to post on BSG forums*

[Omniscaper]

Is it not cool to have a parallel thread here at HLP? I figured HLP is a different community that has more traffic for attracting more help with the mod.

[WMCoolmon]

Sweet...I'm especially liking the engine greebling. Is that canon?

[Taristin]

Is it not cool to have a parallel thread here at HLP? I figured HLP is a different community that has more traffic for attracting more help with the mod.

Oh, I err. meant I'm pointing to my reply there.... not that there's an issue with it :nevous:

[Col. Fishguts]

Oh dear god that's beautiful. What's gonna happen to the old version, LOD1 ?

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

You propably know this already, but there seems to be some missing polys from the bottom panels. You can see through them in the first shot.

[Trivial Psychic]

Is there any provision on that thing for retractable pods?

[Bobboau]

You propably know this already, but there seems to be some missing polys from the bottom panels. You can see through them in the first shot.

thats the ribs, it's suposed to look like that.

[Omniscaper]

The panels on top of the ribs were extruded from flat planes, meaning the original plane no longer exists. My question is, when I make these mesh objects doublesided, will that double the polygon count, since both sides are being rendered?

[Flipside]

I think you might do better just making the missing ones? I'm pretty sure it does take longer to render double sided stuff, and it would take less polygons, if only minutely so, to just replace the missing ones, guess it depends on how easy it would be to do

[StratComm]

There's major complications engine-side with double-sided polys, so avoid them (and I don't even know if you can actually export a model containing them).  Cap the holes; it will take fewer polygons, take less time to render, and give you at least partially solid geometry to boot.

[Bobboau]

you know, the damndest thing, I know I wrote onder the quote

"thats the ribs, it's suposed to look like that."

because it's still in the quick reply box

[Bobboau]

wait, it went into the quote, aw, crap I'm tiered.

and yes, double sided polys mean twice as many. at the least leave it so you can remove the back faces

[sandy]Fix0r3d.[/sandy]

[Omniscaper]

UV mapping complete, and homebrew textures are in the works... so far the head, top midsection and engines have been made. I'll take care of those missing backfaces if doublesided polygons doubles the count.

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[Rand al Thor]

Looks class alright. More of a universe question than a modelling one but is it supposed to be fully covered in armour plates and was just damaged or never completed or are the ribs by design supposed to be visible at all times in some areas.

And 35k? How many polys was the last one? I don't think its something I'll ever see running ingame.

[Flaser]

Looks class alright. More of a universe question than a modelling one but is it supposed to be fully covered in armour plates and was just damaged or never completed or are the ribs by design supposed to be visible at all times in some areas.

And 35k? How many polys was the last one? I don't think its something I'll ever see running ingame.

The engine has already prooved to be able to deal with this many polies and even more...
Actually the true bottleneck right now is texturing, since right now 4 different set of textures are used.

[Omniscaper]

Looks class alright. More of a universe question than a modelling one but is it supposed to be fully covered in armour plates and was just damaged or never completed or are the ribs by design supposed to be visible at all times in some areas.

And 35k? How many polys was the last one? I don't think its something I'll ever see running ingame.

The engine has already prooved to be able to deal with this many polies and even more...
Actually the true bottleneck right now is texturing, since right now 4 different set of textures are used.

Not running ingame!? Dont under-esitmate the HTL engine the SCP geniouses put together. in rguards to the ribs, I have a feeling that the BSG was under a major overhaul when it was prematurely decomissioned. But I think the ribs give it personality.

At the moment, I'm using 2 UV maps and 2 tilemaps. I'll try to reduce it to a single UV map, but I need at  least 2 tilemaps to keep the model detailed at close range.

[Unknown Target]

The overhaul/decommissioning theory actually sounds right. It explains why some areas are covered by tiny bits of plates, while others have all plates/all ribs.

[Omniscaper]

Once the BSG is finished, I will experiment on designing a "overhaul completed" BSG. I think it would look interesting with all its panels, like the Pegasus.