Spring RTS Engine

Yo,
I work for a new Commander in LLTA. But i think I've overrated Spring. The half of my Model is finished, and now I've over 3600 Polygons. How many Polygon's I can use before we have problems with Spring crash's?

greetz
CyberFoX

3600 isn't shit for a single unit.

it's not?

It is but as long as only a few units per player have that much it's not going to cause trouble. spring will never crash but it will slow down.

3600 triangles is the equiv of 900 face ta unit.

keep in mind backface and quads.

what do you mean by half of the model? you're halfway done with the whole thing or like just the torso is done or something?

Pictures will allow us to judge this accurately.

smoth wrote:3600 triangles is the equiv of 900 face ta unit.

keep in mind backface and quads.

Backface isn't a complete doubling because it doesn't need transform again. Or does 3do really use two polies instead of just setting cull none?

3do's don't have GL culling enabled
(the polygon data is only sent once).

in that case it is the equiv of a 1800 face unit. I think the xamels in gundam are around that.

Circulating Nanoparticles will be in this duct's at both arms, Res Tanks on the back, and two lasers somewhere at the torso. And the feets doesn't look like feets, I build they in separate Data's.

(First time I must modelling with targets, be gentle )

edit:
grrrr...the Forum denied me to use the img command. LordLemmi will post the Pictures.

there you got xD

Looks really really good, but imo a lot of those polys are "wasted", but as its only 1 unit not a big deal. Neato design

yes, there is a lot of waste in that model. Look at the edges that have no purpose. If the edges are not needed for geometric detail then the thing is wasting polies.

mmh I'll look to dissolve wasted polys.

So, Spring don't crash with so many polys, but if I use too many polys in too many units, Spring will slow down because off my units? mmh I'll look to make corners invisible with the Texture

thx for help.

Don't touch the smoth button.

rattle wrote:Don't touch the smoth button.

Occasionally it can have its uses, but if your facecount doubled after clicking, ctrl + z is your friend.

Occasionally I'll use it on corners that I badly need rounded and can't do it any other way, but most of the time it adds so many faces that it jsut isn't worth it.

As a general rule (now keep in mind that I am far from the msot experienced here) figure that most if any added detail that you need can be done with a texture.

Texture where you can, model where you have to?

I use it to deform geometry but I remove the additional polies too.

Heh, hitting "smooth" in Blender just pushes the vertices around, it doesn't tesselate the mesh .

Your poly use has caydresque proportions.

TBH the amount of polys wasted on those rings make my balls hurt.