| Post 1 | New | Posted April 10th, 2004. Updated April 10th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown 
| I've been working on a GTA Vice car, my dad's car actually. It's a Mazda 626 from 1990. Picture here :) : I've been working on it for quite a few days now, but I was wondering.. What's the maximum amount of polygons you should use when editing cars? I know the averaga GTA Vice car uses around 1100, but when does the gameplay get slow for an average speed pc? I'm kinda worried, because my car already has 1600+ polys and I still have to make the inside... ------------------ HAHA!!!!! I'll drive you crazy, and I'll KILL you all!!! |
| Post 2 | New | Posted April 10th, 2004 |
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| That Shit Touge ^____________^;; 
| You should be ok as long as you don't go crazy on the interior and wheels like most people do. Well done for having the creativity to do something different! ------------------  STORY OF MY LIFE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 |
| Post 3 | New | Posted April 10th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown
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| Post 4 | New | Posted April 11th, 2004. Updated April 11th, 2004 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard 
| As you add more cars, swap cars around and generally modify your install of GTA, the performance will slowly drop off as the data gets spread around your hard drive. However, despite this you can get away with quite a lot of polygons, although it depends how tightly you are running your game settings. If normal Vice runs liquid smooth and you never get any lag, even when there are lots of cops and FBI on screen, then you could have 60k polygon cars and only get slowdown in hectic scenes - such as when FBI get after you. If your game sometimes slows down under these hectic scenes in Vice but is fine for normal gameplay, then 10-20k cars are fine. It really comes down to the capacity of your graphics card and whether you are running at a resolution which isn't right on the limit of what the card can process. It's really the COL data used by map objects which slows the game down because that has to be handled by the normal CPU, which isn't ideal for a polygon system. However, if you create a TXD which is 10mb that can slow the game down and it may even prevent your car from spawning in busy areas too. Have a look around the "common" sections of my GTA3 and Vice areas of my site to see how many polys similar cars to this have. That section is all family cars, like this one seems to be. :h ------------------
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| Post 5 | New | Posted April 11th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown
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| Post 6 | New | Posted April 11th, 2004 |
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| Fragdieb2 Avatar is missing! 
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| Post 7 | New | Posted April 11th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
| Pennywise On 11/04/2004 @ 06:47:22 wrote: Then it's gonna work fine :D The only thing I still worry about is good textures for my car.. I have some pictures of it, but they are all rather shiny looking and not straight from the front or straight from the side, so they won't fit on the car... But I'm sure a bit googling will solve that problem :) But if someone knows a good car- texture site I will surely appreciate it :) Theres several different styles of texturing. If you have a look round the car sections of my site, you'll see people like Sin5k4 base thier textures on photos whilst people like Superfly Driver draw theirs using photoshop and similar programs.I think the self-made textures give a more unique style to a model because you can go from the stylish shading that Superfly Driver uses to the realism that Majestic achieves. Phototexturing will always give you false highlights, which is especially bad when they are on moving parts like wheels. ------------------
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| Post 9 | New | Posted April 12th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown
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| Post 10 | New | Posted April 12th, 2004 |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr 
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| Post 11 | New | Posted April 12th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown
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| Post 12 | New | Posted April 12th, 2004 |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr
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| Post 13 | New | Posted April 13th, 2004 |
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| Dup Cute and Fluffy :. 
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| Post 14 | New | Posted April 13th, 2004. Updated April 13th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown
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| Post 15 | New | Posted April 13th, 2004. Updated April 17th, 2004 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
| Azz On 12/04/2004 @ 08:54:25 wrote: If you model them at normal size in the dff, then set the wheel ratio as 1.0 in the default.ide it's a lot easier. Doesn't that make them float? Making them precisely one unit in diameter with the centre of the wheel level with the bottom of the car would be better because the handling.cfg moves the wheel downwards and default.ide sets the size. This will also ensure that the wheel is solid at its outside edge.I'm pretty sure that R* units are the same as the units that most 3D modelling programs use... ------------------
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| Post 16 | New | Posted April 17th, 2004 |
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| eddy Midgetman 
| Azz wrote: If you model them at normal size in the dff, then set the wheel ratio as 1.0 in the default.ide it's a lot easier. This would make them float or sink into the ground because the wheel would be a different size compared to the col file for the wheels. On Dmagic's website there is a wheel called scaler.dff and just import this to your z3d file and scale your wheels to the same size as the scaled wheel. I'm not sure about what cerbera said about the 1 unit, could be but I've always used a scale wheel. If you can't find the scale wheel just import one of the wheel models from the game instead. ------------------  |
| Post 17 | New | Posted April 17th, 2004 |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr
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| Post 18 | New | Posted April 17th, 2004. Updated April 17th, 2004 |
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| Pennywise Dancing Clown
| Well, i've been working on the insides of the car for some time. Slowly, it starts to look like something :) Here's a new screenie:  I know, the shadow doesn't look ok at all places. I'll fix that later ------------------ HAHA!!!!! I'll drive you crazy, and I'll KILL you all!!! |
