SE:V Shipset Questions

[Phoenix-D]

The text files are there- check SpaceObjects_XFiles.txt. The cruiser has a base model radius of 444.293 and a scale of 0.008, the destroyer 588.822 and 0.004, respectively.

[ToddT]

SpaceObjects no such file in demo as far as i can see, have checked all directories. the model info provided, comforms what i sad about model sizes (i opened the actual .X files)
it seems you can create models any size you want then set scale accordingly.

[Phoenix-D]

Its in the Campaign 0- Backwater Blues folder.

[ToddT]

hmm saw that then skipped over it for some reason, anyway the scaling numbers are completly different
destroyer model radis is 5.0 and scaling is .01 versus 588.822 and .004

[Phoenix-D]

Buh-what?

That's..bizzare. I pulled those numbers straight from the copy of Starfury on my disk.

[Suicide Junkie]

That's just because the destroyer's model happens to have been made small in the 3d editor, so it only needs to get scaled down a little bit.

The other one is a large model, and needs to be scaled down lots more to make both of them look the right size in-game.

[Noble713]

Poly limits- look at the SF ships. I'd say a couple hundred polys at most.

Is this an engine limitation, or a matter of playability for low-end systems? I tested a ship in the Starfury Demo that was ~1700 polys and it ran fine on my system. Right now I'm working with ships that are around 2k-5k polys, AFTER I've cleaned them up. I'm sure I'll be removing/simplifying more of the detail after I've had the chance to test them in-game, but I doubt any of them will go below 1k polys.

On a side-note, do the textures for the ships have to be 256x256 bitmaps? I've got textures that are 512^2 and 1024^2 in JPEG format that I want to use. The ships look horrible when crompressed down to 256x256.