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SpikedHelmet · Post by **SpikedHelmet** » 23 Oct 2007, 13:58

Sd. Kfz. 9/1 mapped and ready for texturreeezz

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 23 Oct 2007, 17:00

I wonder how visible the cables would be in-game...

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 23 Oct 2007, 19:10

I wonder where the other wheels went...

SpikedHelmet · Post by **SpikedHelmet** » 24 Oct 2007, 00:45

I wonder how visible the entire model will be from the view people play at half the time

It's like 10 polies for all of those cables, doesn't matter anyway, the whole thing will be far < 1000.

The other wheels won't be included. By 1944-1945, Germany could not afford wheels for their vehicles. Instead they used bricks, square sidewalk cement pieces and other assorted non-circular objects.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 24 Oct 2007, 01:10

SpikedHelmet wrote:I wonder how visible the entire model will be from the view people play at half the time .

yeah but its important that the few monents you do zoom in to minutely reposition somthing that it looks awesome

SpikedHelmet · Post by **SpikedHelmet** » 24 Oct 2007, 14:26

Precisely.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 24 Oct 2007, 20:40

SpikedHelmet wrote:The other wheels won't be included. By 1944-1945, Germany could not afford wheels for their vehicles. Instead they used bricks, square sidewalk cement pieces and other assorted non-circular objects.

HAHAHA, bastard, now i have to clean coffee off my screen and out of my keyboard. Epic quote tbh.

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 26 Oct 2007, 02:57

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 26 Oct 2007, 07:03

Hrm.. its that blocky tank flozi posted in that other thread... what was it.. supposed to be iconic of world war 2 or something..

crap.. it was the name of an animal..

(looks good flozi)

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 26 Oct 2007, 07:07

Fanger wrote:Hrm.. its that blocky tank flozi posted in that other thread... what was it.. supposed to be iconic of world war 2 or something..

crap.. it was the name of an animal..

i will give you a clue, its got orange/black stripes ;P

and it looks fantastic

Wolf-In-Exile · Post by **Wolf-In-Exile** » 26 Oct 2007, 16:21

Nice Tiger there, FlOZi.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 26 Oct 2007, 17:50

Hmm... i got a thought: what if we could make models for each zoom level? so the game would became faster when it doesnt need to render all those useless polygons which you cant really see?

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » 26 Oct 2007, 18:15

It's called icons.

MR.D · Post by **MR.D** » 26 Oct 2007, 18:35

I guess that Stepdown LOD is going to be added into spring pretty soon Trademark, the actual process of getting it in game however seems to be shrouded in darkness at the moment

AF · Post by AF » 26 Oct 2007, 18:53

Spring already pre-renders units onto images and then replces the models with those images once you go past the unit detail distance.

Most users dotn notice this though as the icon distance is usually smaller and thus the simplified versions of models are never shown.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 26 Oct 2007, 20:07

Yeah, ive noticed that "pre rendered" thing, but it actually sucks :S, some units looked very weird with those icons.

But i was thinking to make models with less detail when you zoom out, but i dont know is that just waste of resources for the GPU, because you need to update the model so often then...

rcdraco · Post by **rcdraco** » 26 Oct 2007, 20:15

WHERE ARE THE OTHER WHEELS?!?!?

Also, you only would need 2 models per unit for your system, just wouldn't work for mods like mine, where there are 12 objects and only 2 on screen at a time. I think that might mess up other scripts as well.

SpikedHelmet · Post by **SpikedHelmet** » 26 Oct 2007, 23:42

FLOZi wrote:

Ehh, not bad I guess

Something looks off with it, like it's too tall or something. Show more pics from different angles!

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 26 Oct 2007, 23:43

Maybe the turret's too far forwards?

SpikedHelmet · Post by **SpikedHelmet** » 27 Oct 2007, 00:10

Hmm, I think its too short is what I think it is:

http://www.flankyou.com/WWIIVehicles/ga ... 1321_1.jpg

Also, I don't think the commander's copula is quite correct, and the loader's hatch on the top of the turret is misshapen.

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