what's the poly count on this vehicle? cause the dune buggy and water craft in hl2 are both ~6000 tris (5944 for the watercraft and 5824 for the buggy). You should definitely be able to spend the polys on actual rims, as well as cutting in for the headlights and putting transparent polys over them. Also, consider some…
I got a bike stolen, too. I really liked it and it was a gift, too :( But i got about 400 from the isurance for it... ebayed myself a used bike for 112 which ended up being totally awesome and even way better than the old one. Still... makes me so mad whenever i think of it. For weeks and months i couldn't help looking…
thanks for the link i had not seen that. i will take a peek also. i have no other 'good' ideas for a depth pass. but i do have perhaps a 'bad' one. i don't want to throw out bad ideas to you but it seems grim at this point. :) maybe you could rig a view port shader that could give you a depth pass? maybe some sort of ramp…