[Snail]

One of the most perfect HTLizations. Maybe not as awesome in terms of artistic freedom, but it's really the Bakha, just prettier and eating your processors

It's textures, not so much polies, that slows down your game.

[Herra Tohtori]

One of the most perfect HTLizations. Maybe not as awesome in terms of artistic freedom, but it's really the Bakha, just prettier and eating your processors

It's textures, not so much polies, that slows down your game.

Tell that to asteroids... Collision detection really starts to bog down frame rates when there are enough high-poly objects in the game, even with perfectly optimized texture use. Which many of FreeSpace ships do not, friendly spoken, have.

[Snail]

10,000 polies for a single asteroid is insane, especially when you have upwards of 100 of them in-game, up to 200 in really big asteroid fields...

[High Max]

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[Nighteyes]

It won't matter in a few years since the average computer will be able to handle it anyways. If you can't handle it, either upgrade your computer or use older models and textures from older vps by copying them to mediavps/data in their corresponding sub-folders. I wouldn't want the team to limit detail just because some people are complaining.

If so, then why not bump up the max frame limit? and let me add effects with thousands of frames in them?? obviously not every one agrees with your views...

[High Max]

*_*

[Thaeris]

Well, the poly problem would not be as much as an issue if the collision detection model was improved. I believe this was mentioned elsewhere in the forum.

-Thaeris

[Kolgena]

Back on topic:

Is there a reason you modeled the gaps in the plates instead of using a normal map for them? It seems a bit wasteful.
Otherwise, I must say that I have another distracting factor to screw me up in Bearbaiting. "Look, the flak turrets are shooting me. Look at how pretty the explosions are when framing my HTL---" BOOM

[High Max]

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[Vasudan Admiral]

Peterv: Apart from the fact that the stuff you produce always looks awesome, the nicest thing about your threads is that I open them up to the plesant surprise of a fully textured ship. Keep it up!

[peterv]

Thank you VA

Kolgena: What High Max said, provided that I'm staying below the 6000 polys limit.

[Mongoose]

Exactly.  Those of us incapable of seeing normal maps at the present time deserve at least some shiny stuff too.

[peterv]

Almost there :

[Snail]

Peterv:

YOU ARE AWESOME



(though just a thought, the Serapis and Bakha are both pretty dull when it comes to glow maps. I think some artistic license could be taken there, at least on the Bakha)

[High Max]

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[Narvi]

That cockpit seems like it takes too little space... how to put it... the original model gave the impression that the bubble canopy was only one part of the cockpit; now it looks more like a blister which contains the entire cockpit.

Not that I'm telling you to remodel it or anything; just my personal impression.

[Rodo]

hahaha! that a really tight cockpit

poor little vasudan fellow

[peterv]

Well, if you think that this is a tight cockpit, you should wait and see what i'll to to the Myrmidon 

[Commander Zane]

OOOOOH YOU'RE HTL-ING THE MYRMIDON MORE?

[High Max]

*_*