Spring RTS Engine

rattle wrote:Smoth:
That was for a DS modlet originally, wasn't it?

nope

Put more polygons on the wheels, you can afford them, there is no reason not to. Even just 12 or so will be an improvement but theres little reason not to go higher.

Are you sure the turret can rotate fully on the y axis?

Either way, looks good.

nice.
http://img3.abload.de/img/flakthinguhhm.jpg
i would suggest making the turret a bit higher like this.
also how will the guns rotate to aim higher/lower?
because it might look more realistic to have the 2 guns on each side on combined basis so they tilt together.

I'm a wannabe-smoth!

added some more details and made it rounder, so it fits more to ARM

edit: updated turret+barrels to let it shoot into the air

edit2: 888 tris

Yeah, that looks really good

Well done

wilbefast wrote:Yeah, that looks really good

Well done

im not so happy about the barrels, ill change them
edit: updated post before

manolo_ wrote:

wilbefast wrote:Yeah, that looks really good

Well done

im not so happy about the barrels, ill change them

What's wrong with them?

Btw - looking at these models I realise they're mostly very low-polygon. Meanwhile with 4 faces my cube came to 640

How many is too many for a small (ish) unit?

all told me max. 1000 tris, but if u make a super weapon (tier 3...) then it could have more, coz u have not so much units of that type. so 10000 tris for flash should be a big fail

manolo_ wrote:

normals etc...

manolo_ wrote:all told me max. 1000 tris, but if u make a super weapon (tier 3...) then it could have more, coz u have not so much units of that type. so 10000 tris for flash should be a big fail

1000 huh? I'll have to watch myself, 600 went very quickly...

wilbefast wrote:

manolo_ wrote:all told me max. 1000 tris, but if u make a super weapon (tier 3...) then it could have more, coz u have not so much units of that type. so 10000 tris for flash should be a big fail

1000 huh? I'll have to watch myself, 600 went very quickly...

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 02#p386102

Saktoth wrote:

wilbefast wrote:

manolo_ wrote:all told me max. 1000 tris, but if u make a super weapon (tier 3...) then it could have more, coz u have not so much units of that type. so 10000 tris for flash should be a big fail

1000 huh? I'll have to watch myself, 600 went very quickly...

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 02#p386102

35 thousand polygons a pop

Okay, I'm officially going to stop worrying so much Reckon I'll just do my very best to optimise the polygon count but not let it limit me.

Jeebus, this has been discussed many times already.

Polycounts matter. By themselves they aren't a problem. But its the other factors that start to add up as polycounts increase.

Today's hardware can handle millions of polygons with ease, and we'd all be running around with ultra smothed models with enough detail that you can see each individual pore on a model, if it weren't for those pesky lighting, SFX and textures.

There is a very good reason why "cheats" like normal mapping are developed to increase detail instead of raw polygonal detailing.

Jeebus, there is a WHOLE NOTHER THREAD just for polycount discussion. Please take it there and leave this thread for actual Art WIP.

Wolf-In-Exile wrote: ultra smothed models with enough detail that you can see each individual pore on a model.

you find my models too detailed?

smothed as in smoothed

maackey wrote:Jeebus, there is a WHOLE NOTHER THREAD just for polycount discussion. Please take it there and leave this thread for actual Art WIP.

But it's full of bullshit

smoth wrote:

Wolf-In-Exile wrote: ultra smothed models with enough detail that you can see each individual pore on a model.

you find my models too detailed?

Lol - typo fail

You got told!

Still, you're probably right... not that I can turn on any of those effects anyway

Shadow fail...


PS - that's my exit, I'll wait for the next WIP - or maybe post the next WIP. So much course work, so little free time...

Since when is smoth a type of smooth?

Smoth is all kinds of smooth. Ice cold smooth. Criminal smooth. Peanut butter smooth. He is one smooth mother fucker.