Hand Axe & Bilhook

[iamcheeseontoast]

Just finished these

[StarFire]

very nice models

How many polly's?

[ucm]

Niice

[iamcheeseontoast]

Cant remember exactly but think there under 500 each.

[SolarPortal]

Quite decent for up close use.

What about lower poly ones to dot around places as ornaments. Just leave them on tables, or alternatively have lods for them.

The lods would be good as a LOD action is currently under development to attach to your scene entities with distance settings for each LOD.

[iamcheeseontoast]

LODs is the way to go with everyting really.
Glad to hear we can set each lod with its own distance.
Cry3 did it auto distance and you had to have a 50% reduction for each one.
This makes it really hard to have a nice un-noticable transition.

LODs - will these be auto or manually created. Will they be seperate meshs.

Axe/Bilhook I would think 1 lod followed by disapearing would be fine, lets face it they wont show after 25m anyway.

[SolarPortal]

[iamcheeseontoast]

Manual LOD is great. You can get really funky buildings when using an auto lod, LOLOL.

Good idea on the normals and spec. Maybe look at having that an auto thing for lods.

[SolarPortal]

[ucm]

[SolarPortal]

@ucm: i like the idea of having a script controllable lod system that can allow you to set and stop certain things at certain distances, ill look at implementing some lod script controls.

To get performance out of a game, these things have to be done and will make the engine more pro friendly

[iamcheeseontoast]

Just keep the script non-pro friendly as well, LOL...

[SolarPortal]

lol of course