What is your favourite unit from any RTS past or present?

TheRegisteredOne · Post by **TheRegisteredOne** » 24 Apr 2007, 02:23

I would say it is because of his shameless self-plug, but then i'd be a hypocrite :D

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 24 Apr 2007, 07:44

More polygons are one thing, wasting polygons another. 16 sided cylinders are bad. If you have a cube don't throw 1000 polygons at it just because you can, make sure those polygons are put to good use. Modern hardware is no excuse for bad design! A modern graphics card won't crap out because it's underfed but it will crap out when you suddently realize that the lack of LOD coupled with the large numbers of units that appear produces more polygons on the screen than you were planning for.

Don't throw polygons at things that don't need them, that way you have polygons for the things that do. Texturing is a much bigger deal and noone really cares about an underdetailed model if the texture is good.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 24 Apr 2007, 11:01

^

Oh yeah lets all hop aboard the hate bandwagon... seriously! :P
I was just checking, I may have sounded a bit unfriendly but that's not the case.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 25 Apr 2007, 22:42

That's it, I'm moving up to 24-sided cylinders now.

Sorry sorry sorry, misunderstanding, I'm not saying "ooh this unit I made is the best unit in the history of RTS woohoo", I mean to say that its original form in the original game it came from was a really cool ship. That makes it my favourite, and that's why I decided to remake it. Since googling "cahudhri" comes up with nothing useful (links to GEM threads at this very forum, actually), and there's not a very good still shot of it anywhere in the game, I posted a video of my highly accurate reconstruction of it to show you what it looks like. No self-plug intended, honest. Just a really cool ship.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 25 Apr 2007, 22:47

Ahhh, shit, I need to reselect a new unit if the Gunship was TBS, not RTS...

Hmmmmmmmm.....

TheRegisteredOne · Post by **TheRegisteredOne** » 26 Apr 2007, 01:24

Ahhh! so it is not your model I dislike so much, but the ship itself! Thank you for your explanation

tripy-devo · Post by **tripy-devo** » 28 Apr 2007, 03:00

BEST UNIT EVER!!! WOOT

Goolash_ · Post by **Goolash_** » 28 Apr 2007, 16:22

Harkonnen Devastator from Dune II.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 28 Apr 2007, 19:03

That thing is brutal, although I kinda liked the Fremen on the Genesis release even more. They were so utterly powerful, a pack of them could take a (lone) devastator heads on.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 28 Apr 2007, 19:16

GLA tunnel is pretty cool too

Zpock · Post by **Zpock** » 28 Apr 2007, 19:42

I want to see ur take on a model of it... rattle

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 28 Apr 2007, 20:23

Sooner or later I will get around to model it...

Here's one Masse did:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/u_engine/pictures/ ... stator.jpg
http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3165&

Zpock · Post by **Zpock** » 29 Apr 2007, 01:24

Bah D2000... I think should go for the original look (dune II) FTW.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 29 Apr 2007, 10:07

The one in the PC game looks more like a truck while the one from the game on the Genesis looks more like the one from Dune 2000.

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What is your favourite unit from any RTS past or present?

hell fire from dawn of war