[Ulala]

Okay, no complaints here. Looks excellent.

[sigtau]

It looks like a giant glowing insect.

A Shivan is a giant glowing insect.

I have absolutely no complaints.  Now let's see the new Colly and this ship duke it out.

[Rga_Noris]

... in spite of its 200K+ polies, it has been confirmed on several computers (from high to low end), that for whatever reason, you will see an increase... yes, and increase... in FPS over the retail Sathanas. One test mission had multiple Sath's visible. The nuSath saw a 5 fps increase.

EDIT: THat poly counts includes subobjs.

[sigtau]

Optimized meshes ftw?

Am I seeing engine optimizations stemming from FSO taking shape?

[Galemp]

... in spite of its 200K+ polies, it has been confirmed on several computers (from high to low end), that for whatever reason, you will see an increase... yes, and increase... in FPS over the retail Sathanas. One test mission had multiple Sath's visible. The nuSath saw a 5 fps increase.

This is awesome. We need to spread this news far and wide.

[Rampage]

Looks like a cathedral of death.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

This is awesome. We need to spread this news far and wide.

Facebook wall spammed.

[Rga_Noris]

Hrm... so I need to update that claim a bit.

I tested it on a Dell Inspiron 1440:

Win7 64-bit
Intel Pentium T4400 / 2.2 GHz
4GB of RAM
Cruddy Intelgrated GPU 4 series.

Now, with one entire Sath visible on screen, retail actually outperforms:

Retail: 36fps average.
HTL: 22fps

Here's the magic: Up close, as in destroying turrets, flying over, or goofing off:

Retail: 40fps average
HTL: 56fps average.

With 12 Saths on screen:

Retail: 9fps Average
HTL: 13fps average

There you have it, folks. That is with 3 4096^2 textures, each with a glow and normal. Imagine the performance when I release a 'lite' version with 2048^2 textures. Excellent work and hats off to the optimizations the SCP team have integrated.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Updated the wall too.

[Ypoknons]

If we were playing Mahjong, it'd pong it!

It is excellent, much-improved umm... not sure if the red lights are 100% awesome yet, kind of feel the size is too much or else they need some more definition... but it's good.

[perihelion]

That thing looks like it crawled straight out of my nightmares!

[Sushi]

Hrm... so I need to update that claim a bit.

I tested it on a Dell Inspiron 1440:

Win7 64-bit
Intel Pentium T4400 / 2.2 GHz
4GB of RAM
Cruddy Intelgrated GPU 4 series.

Now, with one entire Sath visible on screen, retail actually outperforms:

Retail: 36fps average.
HTL: 22fps

Here's the magic: Up close, as in destroying turrets, flying over, or goofing off:

Retail: 40fps average
HTL: 56fps average.

With 12 Saths on screen:

Retail: 9fps Average
HTL: 13fps average

There you have it, folks. That is with 3 4096^2 textures, each with a glow and normal. Imagine the performance when I release a 'lite' version with 2048^2 textures. Excellent work and hats off to the optimizations the SCP team have integrated.

Just curious, exactly what optimizations are you talking about? So everyone making high-poly models knows how it's done...

[Rga_Noris]

mostly detail boxes and having more lower poly subobjects as opposed to fewer high poly subs. Also, no tile mapping.

[Rga_Noris]

Just a brief reminder on why we all love MjnMixael:



This is just a mock up he whipped up to make me (and now you) drool. I cannot wait to see it finished.

Also, I intend on releasing ASAP. It is pretty much ready, just some glow map tweaking and thruster stuff... then done!

[CommanderDJ]

HOLY--

Sorry, my computer crashed coz of the awesomeness.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoPWALM2riQ

[T-LoW]

Any chances to get the sun-burster as an ingame effect?

So so awesome!

[ssmit132]

It's been done before (in fact, the ingame version is included in the original Inferno), but that was a long time ago so it doesn't look that great now.

But that shot looks so awesome!

[PsychoLandlord]

Holy Crap, thats beautiful.

[blowfish]

With a little bit of technological updating, the effect could probably look decent in-game.  The arms could be made to rotate relatively easily, and the effect itself could be accomplished with a new warp effect.  That last part might require a bit of coding though...