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Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP [message #473480 is a reply to message #462247]

Fri, 24 August 2012 21:02

Aircraftkiller
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I think that there need to be sacrifices to run better looking graphics on a 1998 engine. One of those sacrifices is having eight sided valve controls in exchange for more intelligently designed textures, interiors that are more than sparse wastelands, realistic looking buildings, and polygon counts that aren't lower than the stuff I develop for at work.

I can clearly make smoother valve controls. The issue is that I don't want to. I'm using more textures and more geometry than the Renegade buildings by a factor of five, at minimum. This doesn't include the higher quality vehicles that I've been developing. I'm trying to strike a balance between looking good and running well, which is my job as an environment artist.

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An environment artist is someone who works in the game industry as a 3D modeler, specializing in outdoor or indoor locations for a game's setting. They are responsible for creating the majority of the overall visuals the player will encounter on the screen, making approximate collision so that the player isn't colliding with every little detail, optimizing geometry so that the level runs at a manageable framerate, and helping bring life to the game world.

The main issue with a lot of mods built using Renegade's engine is that people push things way too far and don't realize that it's a 1998 engine. Sure, I can make 40k buildings with 2048x textures. Sure, I can make vehicles use three 2048x textures with 15k polygons. Should I? No, I shouldn't.

The end result is that they look round enough. I don't feel like adding 25 to 50 triangles per valve just so that they look slightly rounder. It's an old game. You don't see people catch grief for Half-Life 1 mods looking just as dated as the original game - you develop within the constraints of the engine, not beyond it.

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		Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Fri, 03 February 2012 19:51
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Generalcamo on Fri, 03 February 2012 21:48
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Wed, 08 February 2012 19:38
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Wed, 07 March 2012 18:25
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: halo2pac on Wed, 07 March 2012 21:23
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: NACHO-ARG on Thu, 08 March 2012 05:03
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Fri, 09 March 2012 21:37
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Sun, 18 March 2012 13:50
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: NACHO-ARG on Sun, 18 March 2012 19:57
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Vince on Mon, 19 March 2012 14:28
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Sat, 28 April 2012 12:08
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Sat, 12 May 2012 15:48
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Blazea58 on Sat, 12 May 2012 19:09
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Sat, 12 May 2012 19:49
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: jonwil on Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Blazea58 on Sun, 13 May 2012 21:44
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Tue, 15 May 2012 16:50
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: NACHO-ARG on Tue, 15 May 2012 17:43
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: liquidv2 on Wed, 16 May 2012 22:55
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Sean on Thu, 17 May 2012 16:46
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Thu, 17 May 2012 17:25
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Sean on Fri, 18 May 2012 03:10
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Hunter-Seeker on Fri, 18 May 2012 06:37
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aprime on Fri, 01 November 2013 13:08
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Renardin6 on Thu, 02 August 2012 04:06
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: OWA on Wed, 15 August 2012 09:02
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Generalcamo on Fri, 17 August 2012 17:29
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: OWA on Fri, 24 August 2012 18:08
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Fri, 24 August 2012 21:02
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		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Fri, 24 August 2012 23:03
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: OWA on Sat, 25 August 2012 09:52
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Sat, 25 August 2012 20:38
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: OWA on Sat, 25 August 2012 20:49
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Sat, 25 August 2012 21:24
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: OWA on Sun, 26 August 2012 11:03
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		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Generalcamo on Mon, 08 April 2013 13:09
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Renardin6 on Mon, 14 October 2013 06:10
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aircraftkiller on Fri, 01 November 2013 20:45
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Aprime on Fri, 01 November 2013 23:01
		Re: Tiberium Refinery WIP By: Kamuix on Sat, 02 November 2013 13:42

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