Spring RTS Engine

I started already two attempts to replace all trees in CA.
Latest attempt looked like this:


My problem is that 100 of those eat 70% of my FPS

PS: The shown models have 300-350 triangles.

A lot can probably be done just by editing the textures on the current spring tree models.

what the fuck i hate the current trees because the are WAY TO BIG FOR *A MODS. Commanders are supposed to be epic, pewees are giant mechs that tower over trees.

well then again, current trees may be almost right size, only a little small. I guess i was exagerating ^ up there.

I thought we decided peewees were the size of a 2 story house... and most trees, if uninterrupted, will grow to at least 2 house stories or more... so trees should be about as tall as a peewee or taller depending on species... the trees in Spring tend to resemble "Lodgepole Pines" (or what I like to call "Ugly Trees") which grow from 30-50 feet.

Sadly the picture in the wikipedia article is of a subspecies that actually looks not that bad so I had to find a picture of what they normally look like:

Mesh is DONE. 3000 Tri's... but then you only get 1 so not to much of a problem I hope!



And here are some glam smoth AO versions





Next on the list... UV map and texturing... dam...

aGorm

Holy shiat that thing is sexy. Love the rifle. Some of the normals look a little wierd, though, if that shading smoth shot is using them.

Sweet, very like...

Looking at it I'm thinking that the "blade" doesn't make much sense in a robots fighting each other context... maybe if it split and you had jacob's ladder style arcs run up it.

Pxtl wrote:Holy shiat that thing is sexy. Love the rifle. Some of the normals look a little wierd, though, if that shading smoth shot is using them.

There fine, its the Abient Occlussion in wings that makes it go a tad funny in places (as it doesn't do per pixel shading, it does vertext shading, hence if there are areas without many verts, it can get confused...)

And the Blade makes a lot of sense if you had a large armored bear running at you...

aGorm

d_b wrote:what the fuck i hate the current trees because the are WAY TO BIG FOR *A MODS. Commanders are supposed to be epic, pewees are giant mechs that tower over trees.

well then again, current trees may be almost right size, only a little small. I guess i was exagerating ^ up there.

Umm... The trees aint the problem, the problem is the scale of TA mods as also the spring as a whole. It's really hard to make anything peewee scaled to look good. A lot of detail gets lost...

@sinbadEV, those are pines that we have numbers in Finland and I will include a lot of those kind of "uglytrees" in my tree set.

aGorm, that's the nicest model I've seen in anything Spring related. The way his back greebles hold tension like he's ever so slightly hunched over, all action pose - amazing.

Poor guy don't have no fingers.

3000 tris will be fine Very nice, aGorm, that has a ton of character!

Really nice aGorm! Actually I love it!

Gota wrote:Poor guy don't have no fingers.

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d_b wrote:what the fuck i hate the current trees because the are WAY TO BIG FOR *A MODS. Commanders are supposed to be epic, pewees are giant mechs that tower over trees.

What the fuck I HATE those dumbass posers who don't know what the fuck they're talking about.



Show a little respect for TA by shutting the fuck up next time.

To be fair,you dont really know what sort of trees those are and how tall they are.

You still could calculate it with the fancy velocity numbers TA gave by just measuring how much time a unit needs for a certain distance...

As I think zwsg even said for himself someone really did so...

Trees can be big.

TBH, since it's a sci-fi game set on distant planets in the far future... trees can be whatever we feel like in terms of scale... this is all kinda silly. Make some big, some small, some HUGE like LathanStanley's... make more aGorm trees, whatever...

bobthedinosaur wrote:Trees can be big.

Trees can be small.



So, by combining this photo with the screenshot of my previous post, we can deduce the peewee is approximatively as tall as a coke can. This can be used for future reference:

1 peewee = 1 vanilla coke can.