Privateer: Tarsus

BradMick · Post by **BradMick** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:24 pm

Hello all, figured i'd share this with you all. I'm getting ready to start on the Galaxy next. If you like it and want it, lemme know.

Brad Mick

Post by **hellcatv** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:37 pm

we'd love such a thing

any chance you could texture it and make it look more metallish

Post by **mkruer** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:43 pm

Well at least its not another remake of a WC1 model.

BradMick · Post by **BradMick** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:48 pm

yep yep, i'll get to texturing later.

eventually i'll model all the old wc 1 and 2 ships at this standard too, but...thats later down the road.

Brad Mick

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:42 pm

Are there going to be low and high poly versions? That one looks a bit high for general usage.

BradMick · Post by **BradMick** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:21 am

it's low poly ready for use in game. after many MANY long discussions with many dozens of people, you can pretty much have a model that is 25,000 polies in game and running just fine. Through careful LOD work, thats what makes that possible. 10,000 seems to be what the new standard will be here shortly. As the in game characters for Half Life 2 are reported to be about 10,000 some odd polies, anything under that is just fine. Higher end/modern whatever graphics cards will be able to handle these no sweat. Also, i believe the game Freelancer's models have an 8000 poly limit. So, as far as polies go. It's a-ok.

Brad Mick

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:22 am

I would strongly suggest having a level of detail that is in the hunderds of polys. Thousands and thousands is fine for a few up close, but a lot of far away ships will cause the game to chug unnecessarily. With a small LOD, the game won't chug when there's lots of far away ships, and there will be no noticeable loss of detail.

That shouldn't be too hard to manage though, especially since there doesn't need to be hardly any model or texture details.

10,000 polys is NOT a low poly model. It may be manageable for some hardware... but it definately isn't low.

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:35 am

I think you guys are arguing over something on which you agree.

From what BradMick has posted, I thought he was saying that the high poly count doesn't matter because LODs take care of performance issues... and peteyg is calling for low poly LODs! "It's emits no white light!" "No, it's not, it's black!"

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:36 am

...

good call. My bad. : )

BradMick · Post by **BradMick** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:45 am

heh heh, exactly

LOD's do factor into it. I just, well...haven't done that yet.

Brad Mick

scheherazade · Post by **scheherazade** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:19 pm

Brad << send finished meshes to me and i'll map it, and i'll generate 5 LOD's for it.

weather or not you want me to make the materials for the maps is up to you... i can do that too if you'd like.

scheherazade <at> strategyplanet <dot> com

-scheherazade

scheherazade · Post by **scheherazade** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:22 pm

oh, and one more thing... if you wanna talk about models/modelling for WC:universe specifically, contact me at:

4189579 (icq)
scheherazade0xF (aim)

-scheherazade

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:01 am

textured the Tarsus here this morning. Just a quick job (like the Galaxy), but I took some extra time to make a cockpit interior.

http://students.washington.edu/peteyg/b ... arsus1.jpg

http://www.wcnews.com/loaf/cockpits/tarsus-rear.gif

Post by **hurleybird** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:39 am

Oh cool, an interior!

nice...

fizze · Post by **fizze** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:21 am

wow... feels like home already

scheherazade · Post by **scheherazade** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:16 am

yah about those models...

i haven't done any lod's or anything like i was supposed to...

my computer blew up...

making a new one this thursday.

-scheherazade

Post by **hellcatv** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:52 pm

cool good luck

it would be great to see that finished stiletto in game