[Snail]

That would look a bit weird, don't you think?

No... Why would it look weird?

[Dragon]

Many mediavps models have retail LOD0 (without turrets) as a LOD1.
It doesn't look weird.
Though considering amount of details on this, maybe LOD2 should be a retail mesh...

[Droid803]

The texture style on this one is quite different from the retail LODs.
Not saying that those can't be changed though.

[High Max]

;-)

[c914]

The texture style on this one is quite different from the retail LODs.

Also shape is different, new Cain has new details which do not have old one.

[Kolgena]

I'd imagine that it'd be pretty easy to fudge over those details with the textures. I mean, when LOD1 is activated, you can barely see it anyways. If it's notably a bad pop-in problem, we can simply make a new LOD1, but keep LOD2-4 as retail models with texture swap.

[Dragon]

The texture style on this one is quite different from the retail LODs.

Also shape is different, new Cain has new details which do not have old one.

Isn't that the entire point of LODing?
I mean, if you added new details to the mesh, lower LODs shouldn't have them.
Also, I htought about using retail LOD0 as HTL Cain's LOD1 or 2.
This has been done before on various mediavps models.

[Aardwolf]

Yeah, but if there are significant enough liberties taken, that won't work. For example, the retail Herc II had a "02" on the side. The high-poly version did away with it, and thus needed modified lower-detail LODs. Also, it had that whole exhaust burny texture thing going on.

[Kolgena]

I'm not seeing an issue here. Maybe I'm missing something?

LOD0: What's show in this thread.
LOD1: Retail Cain model with LOD0 shrunken textures
LOD2: Old LOD1 with new further shrunken textures
LOD3: 12 poly space wedge with any texture you want

[Vasudan Admiral]

The shape and tone of the ship would be too different, meaning you'd get visible LOD snap when they switched over. LOD changes should be invisible or as close to invisible as possible to the human eye, and the LODs themselves should use the same texture as LOD0 for efficiency reasons.

[Galemp]

WUMP.

Please don't let this thread die. If anyone has this model and its textures, can you post them so we can continue working on them? Even if it's not finished, it would be a great asset in rendering animations and cutscenes.

[Commander Zane]

And to think I just got bat**** excited seeing this thread on the Recent Posts list.

[ShadowGorrath]

Hope's not lost. Either c914 will finish it, or we'll be able to get it from the 'FreeSpace: Evolution' mod for Nexus, which has it.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Hay Galemp, there's a few more threads where you can post that

[c914]

Actually I've made some little progress...
Maybe i'll be able to post something, before I go to holidays... or maybe  not 

[Galemp]

At the very least, please post your source files. I mean we got the Hatshepsut from vanished-to-POF in a week because someone had a dump.

[mjn.mixael]

*waits impatiently for HTL Cain for cb_anis*

[Rga_Noris]

I sent him a PM about it yesterday, so we'll see. I wouldn't mind doing it all.

[c914]

PM re send, Rga_Noris if you like do this nasty job its all yours  

*waits impatiently for HTL Cain for cb_anis*

POF file type will be good?

[sigtau]

PM re send, Rga_Noris if you like do this nasty job its all yours 

*waits impatiently for HTL Cain for cb_anis*

POF file type will be good?

You can export DAE from POF, so I would assume so.