Models by macuser

[milo christiansen]

IMHO: The warzone engine with a little(LOT) of work will be just as good or better than trying to graft in a new engine. A new engine will make a lot of work and take a lot of time to add, during which new bugs will be introduced.

[macuser]

Well the way the engine renders stuff is so inefficient and full of spaghetti code, it seems like it would be better to start over.

Well this weekend a friend of mine told me about a game called wolfenstien ET: a FPS allies vs axis. So i tried it out - nice game only boring after a while BUT I would guess is has a LOT more polygons than wz2100 and i know it had things like normal maps too, however it ran perfectly fine on an old mac laptop i have with 64 mb graphics card 43FPS average! it did not even ever turn my fan on!

What puzzles me is: why does warzone, having less polys and less mapping features like normal maps, slow down on that laptop to about 15FPS and it does make my fan come on when wolfenstien ET does not?

[Jorzi]

Remember that much of the stuff that slows down the game is not in the rendering engine, like pathfinding, ai, defensive structures' base vertices projecting against the ground etc..
Changing the render engine propably won't speed this up.

[Rman Virgil]

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The proposition is NOT to simply graft a new render engine - it is preceded by a strategic coding design development course change that was stated clearly in a previous post that was ignored via a transparent ploy to engender anomie to side-step the valid point raised (which is never gonna work to a respectable end, to be sure, especially with a native New Yorker).

- Yebo, sanibonani.

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[macuser]

well anyhow.... it is just my opinion . i'll try and help as much as i can once i'm done with my c++ class

[Jorzi]

About the twinmg, unfortunately I have been unable to reproduce your problem, do you import in 2.49 or 2.5x?
Anyway, uploading the blend here...

[macuser]

tried both, but thanks

[macuser]

Well this is kind of wierd.... I open up the blend file and it does not freeze but there is nothing in the file - it is blank.

[Jorzi]

ARGH no wonder... I accidentally linked it instead of appending it (which means it looks for the model from another .blend file on my hard drive)

[macuser]

Thanks

here ya go just a quick color job here

[macuser]

Some more modifications:

[Jorzi]

Ok, looks nice so far, but remember to make the teamcolour into a 1-bit tcmask. Also maybe make the blue less saturated and some more details on the barrel cooler.
Another idea: what about some numbers/inscriptions (just a quick idea I had recently)

[macuser]

Started work on heavy laser highpoly

[Jorzi]

Pretty nice start, although I think a few changes to the overall shape might be good.
-The barrel needs some way to adjust its elevation, and a simple mirror wouldn't really be sufficient when considering the intensity of the beam...
-the front could use some heavy sloped armour plating
-also, for texturing it really needs a warning sign like this somewhere http://shaktronics.com/files/2010/02/bi ... -laser.gif

[macuser]

LOL OK . 1 How does it currently adjust elevation? 2 Sloping armor... sure thing.