Thanks HP! It was requested that I be as generous as possible with a lot of the little bits, but I agree, if this were a real game asset a good optimization pass would be very important. Getting 25k triangles for my budget was like winning the lottery and not knowing what to do with all of the money.
Hi thank you Oniram, :) However i figured it out last night by setting game type to UT_Game and not deathmatch there is a small change in scale but enough for me and that leads to conclusion that 160 or 192 should be normal wall height or 256 Max and above for different environment styles.
day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v3714_DrCs day2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btMLA4Z8WOE Low down is streamlined modeling tools, extruding, edgeloops, bridging..the whole shebang. A bridge to keyshot and a special keyshot deal for $250. Oh and the real topping on the cake... 64bit.
@ CraigSnedeker : Thanks a lot man :) I just finished the radio tower, here is a little turntable. When you go through the blue light, you unlock the nearby races. The tower is 16k tris and use a 1024² texture. There is also a LOD of 560tris using a 256² map.
OK, sure, next time EA charges you 250$ and closes your account because that Tech guy in some backwater city thought you were using your coupon code on your birthday as a Refund number for your Credit Card, please, be my guest.
I wont be bringing a computer (again) but i love the social environment! Some friends and I will be there the whole time staying at the hotel. If any of you guys want to meet up give me a call while the event is going. (256) 694-4332. See ya there bronco.
Yes separate texture. Also with the shininess i would keep that in its own file for now. If a person is using that in engine usually that shininess texture is not so big. Like you might have a 1024* spec and a 256 shininess. So i'd keep it separate. HAI GUI!
lill' update, I did a new head for her (the old one still remains for the main character, this one will be used as an alt character. I need to add more depth to the skin right now, but you can get the main idea [edit: the head skin is a 256²]
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks.php?dvdplayer=apex+AD-1500&hits=50&Search=Search try that daz. and if thats no good then... http://www.codefreedvd.com/ i had about 250 dvd's from theuk with me when coming here to the states, no way i was giving them up!
Thanks for that info on the cracks, i will hande them later today. Interior has a seperate 256*2 map, as i wasn't planing to do it at the begining. That sheet of newspaper used to be couple of polys on front windshield, but i didn't like it. Maybe i'll put it back on. Thanks