What part of LOD scaling do you not understand? There is only likely to be one high poly tank on your screen and that's the one you're riding in, everyone else can pilot shitty ugly ass models. No it wouldn't. You can easily have a dozen character models on screen in HL2 which means you can have a dozen similarly complex models (tanks) on screen in empires. And once again LOD SCALING FFS... There isn't more world rendering in empires unless the mapper is a fucking retard. Empires maps have nothing in them.
I understand what you're talking about Chris, but if only one of our vehicles is 16k up close, and all the others are 4.5k it'd look very funny.
No it wouldn't. Buildings currently drop down from about 4k to probably less than 500 polys. And would you prefer that all the vehicles look like ass all the time? Or would you rather have then be upgraded whenever possible?
He has a point. Just because all the rest of the models are shitty, doesn't mean you can't make a better looking one. You should, in fact, make the best looking model a higher-end computer will allow, then crapify it down for the riff-raff that can't afford 4gb of RAM and a video card that was made in the last 2 years.
for anyone not understanding the scaling chis is talking about has anyone noticed how the vehicle factory ceases to be hollow (it shows a black texture in stead of the entrance) as soon as you walk away a certain amount from it? thats it, stuff becomes uglier the further it is from you because mostly you wont be looking at its details from so far anyway
It looks really neat, however, I'm a little concerned that this model will suffer some of the issues of the current model. That issue being that the cannon isn't close enough to the front to shoot LTs, since the new model looks about the same height as the existing AFV. Since this is a tracked vehicle, it'll be able to turn without moving forward, something the LT can't do (which is pretty neat).
I would be happy with either the puma afv or mayama's, i just really dont like WW2 american tank designs
Its more of a scorpion than a puma to be honest... And I agree, the WWII/WWI styled tank designs look a little ridiculous to be honest.
... oh yea lol, i was thinking of someone else's puma/afv mk2 that was on here a while ago, but yea either way it looks good
You could say it's dead. I started working on a high poly model and also made some small changes to it: But haven't had much time to finish it.
I like it having those hatches. So I was driving by fort lewis the other day an discovered one of the tanks your mimicking cemented in. To my amazement I am taller then the blasted thing. it about the same size as the LT and now has my support as a design. If you need a quick doodle illustrating different BE themes applied to your chassis I wouldn't mind.
