Codename:Timewar.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat May 05, 2007 4:04 am

me and a few friends of mine are working on a mod together based on a war from TV show Doctor who, it involves a war mentioned many times called the timewar, a war between the daleks and the timelords.
so far i have some of the timelord BSP done but im not going to show that just yet till its finished but i will show the gunstick ive done for the dalek.
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[update as of 23/07/07]
planet skaro sector 43.10 mapped, dalek army assembled and ready for war:

model]

bit more done ^_^

Head done:

finished dalek model:

polies at 3931
another thing to come?

[RR]RedRene · Post by **[RR]RedRene** » Sat May 05, 2007 4:35 am

Finally someone get's around to doing this, though one problem, there would have to be different Timelord BSP's.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat May 05, 2007 4:41 am

[RR]RedRene wrote:Finally someone get's around to doing this, though one problem, there would have to be different Timelord BSP's.

yeah i know.
ive got part of the inside BSP done got the basic layour set out.

[RR]RedRene · Post by **[RR]RedRene** » Sat May 05, 2007 4:45 am

Hm, will there be team's, like Red Dalek Blue Timelord, or is it SP BSP.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat May 05, 2007 5:14 am

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:09 am

extreme poly wastage. learn to conserve polies.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:18 am

SnaFuBAR wrote:extreme poly wastage. learn to conserve polies.

i didnt think it was that high of a poly model.
somthing like 2000 polies at the moment and those are the most detailed parts of the model im doing.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:18 am

What's with the bad render compression?

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:20 am

TomClancey wrote:What's with the bad render compression?

i just saved it as default jpeg file.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat May 05, 2007 2:33 pm

Save it as a png next time. Much higher quality.

Leiukemia · Post by **Leiukemia** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:12 pm

png's fail. It's his renders that are making it look fuzzy like that. If you want I can pm you a better way to make renders warlord.

Anyways, yes it does appear that there are more polygons there then needed. Perhaps if you posted a wireframe it would be easier to help you out and show you how to improve. Because I'm sure you could get the same look with way less.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sun May 06, 2007 2:21 am

Leiukemia wrote:png's fail. It's his renders that are making it look fuzzy like that. If you want I can pm you a better way to make renders warlord.

Anyways, yes it does appear that there are more polygons there then needed. Perhaps if you posted a wireframe it would be easier to help you out and show you how to improve. Because I'm sure you could get the same look with way less.

heres the wireframe you asked for:

thats a wireframe of:

and a wireframe of the whole thing.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sun May 06, 2007 9:58 am

Extrude/Bevel crazy? The sphere on the end looks like it's 500+ pollies. You really need to learn/do polly optimization.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:09 am

TomClancey wrote:Extrude/Bevel crazy? The sphere on the end looks like it's 500+ pollies. You really need to learn/do polly optimization.

already have and its not that high in polygons....

little peek at whats to come.

[RR]RedRene · Post by **[RR]RedRene** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:27 am

Look's nice on the corridor design, keep us updated.

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:10 am

too high poly. also, you need to count triangles because that's what the game renders, not polygons. generally you can expect your triangle count to be roughly 2x your polygon count.

so in that scene i'm guessing you'll have about 40k triangles, which is not acceptable by any measure. really, you need to rethink your modeling techniques.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:15 am

SnaFuBAR wrote:too high poly. also, you need to count triangles because that's what the game renders, not polygons. generally you can expect your triangle count to be roughly 2x your polygon count.

so in that scene i'm guessing you'll have about 40k triangles, which is not acceptable by any measure. really, you need to rethink your modeling techniques.

could you give me a few suggestions as the type of level im going for i dont think plane modeling would work.

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:18 pm

i'm not talking about the level, i'm talking about the daleks.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:48 am

Is leikemia joking? Png's have like 16.7 trillion colors.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:54 am

SnaFuBAR wrote:i'm not talking about the level, i'm talking about the daleks.

ok could you give me some advice on modeling the daleks better?