[Dilmah G]

Well, I'm interested in knowing the exact poly-count and of cause if it can be successfully exported without too much pain and frustration.
So, you you guys have a FTP server I can upload it to?

www.freespacemods.net

You should be able to make an account and upload there.

[karajorma]

Hope you'll like it, and hope it's not too over detailed to be useful... My best guest puts it around 40-50k polygons.

That should be well within the number of polys the engine can handle.

Glad to see you've decided to join us from Sci Fi Meshes.

[peterv]

Anyhow what kind of polygon budget are you guys working on for the ship classes?

Fighters/Bombers - Less than 6000 Polygons
Cruisers/Freighters - 6000-12000 Polygons
Corvettes - 14000-18000 Polygons
Destroyers - 20000-24000 Polygons
Juggernauts - 24000 Polygons upwards

It's for the Lod0.
Very nice model BTW.

[Snail]

40-50,000 polygons is quite a bit though...

[blowfish]

Is that polycount triangulated or not?

[SPECTRE87]

  SketchUp isn't particularly friendly with such things.. I honestly have no idea 
But the thing is that this is an old model I made years ago, which I recently restored, optimized and made 'better'. There are many polygons which aren't used effectively, but this can be fixed, and likely will be once I get a final one on the Poly budget for the Orion.

Anyhow I'll uploaded to the 3Dwarehouse so feel free to take a closer look at it.

Nick: HustlerJohn (lame, I know  )

[Snail]

Cutting the polycount in half is a pretty tall order...

[Hellstryker]

From looking at it now i'd guess it's within 40k polys. The HTL Hades is 80k polys. 

[Droid803]

But the Hades is a unique ship - one of a kind, there will only ever be one, and its a fair but larger.
You occasionally see more than one Orion in a mission.

[SPECTRE87]

I don't recall any mission where you see multiple Orions or Hecates. Anyhow have you guys stress tested the engine yet or just assuming? 

[blowfish]

SketchUp isn't particularly friendly with such things.. I honestly have no idea 

Go to model info, and find the number of faces.  This is the untriangulated polygon count.  It's hard to tell, but I find that usually the triangulated polycount (what will matter in-game) is usually ~2.5 - 3 times this.

[Snail]

I don't recall any mission where you see multiple Orions or Hecates.

Well, there are a lot of user-made campaigns out there.

Anyhow have you guys stress tested the engine yet or just assuming? 

Not just assuming. Sure faster computers will run even an 80k HTL Hades model, but as it is my ****ty computer slows to around 20FPS with 30k model.

[Jadehawk]

For file uploads and so, It's free and works very well for me with no problems.


http://www.mediafire.com/

[Hellstryker]

We have LODs for a reason.

[Droid803]

I don't recall any mission where you see multiple Orions or Hecates. Anyhow have you guys stress tested the engine yet or just assuming? 

Slient Threat.
The GTD Myrmidon and the GTD.
And then there are user made campaigns, as Snail has pointed out.

[Woolie Wool]

We have LODs for a reason.

And the polycount is far less of an issue than the texel count and number of bitmaps.

[BrotherBryon]

Overall I really like it. It brings back the functional details that I think the current HTL model lacks. As some of the others have said the engines and back slope don't quite look right.

Glad to see another Sketch-up user in the mix. Yeah it can be a bit clunky when you get into some of the heavy detailing and curved structures (I'm kind of beating my head against a wall on the shivan fighter I'm currently playing around with) but as long as you are disciplined enough to clean up excess faces as you go along conversions don't seem to big a deal for those that know how to do it. (Tips hat to blowfish for all his help converting the models I've done)

[blowfish]

Glad to see another Sketch-up user in the mix. Yeah it can be a bit clunky when you get into some of the heavy detailing and curved structures (I'm kind of beating my head against a wall on the shivan fighter I'm currently playing around with) but as long as you are disciplined enough to clean up excess faces as you go along conversions don't seem to big a deal for those that know how to do it. (Tips hat to blowfish for all his help converting the models I've done)

All I've really done so far is convert the Hippocrates to 3ds, which took all of about 30 seconds   Your meshes are very clean compared to some of the stuff I've seen in SketchUp   I guess it really lies in the hands of the modeler to fix geometry errors as they come up.

[DaBrain]

40-50,000 polygons is quite a bit though...

I think around 40k should be perfectly fine.

You have to think in on-screen polygons. And there aren't any missions with more than one Orion.

[Hellstryker]

40-50,000 polygons is quite a bit though...

I think around 40k should be perfectly fine.

You have to think in on-screen polygons. And there aren't any retail missions with more than one Orion.

Fixed.