A castle..

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:56 pm

mh, I don't really know what is this section for, so I'll give screenshots of the castle I'm making for my game, maybe it can give inspiration to other ones.
The screenshotes weren't made at the same time, so there is somme differences, and don't look at the background, it only was to make the scene less dark.
Screnshots rendered by Ogre are coming soon!

Note that I try to have less thant 15000 polys, and it's not very easy(even with the optimize modifier).

Borundin · Post by **Borundin** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:59 pm

Wow very nice !! Looking forward to see it rendered in OGRE too.
What modeller are you using btw ?

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:19 pm

I use 3Dsmax! I've just exported the mesh, but I didn't test it. I'll do this tomorrow!

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:50 pm

Okay, I take a screenshot of a part of one tower..
I experiment the multitexturing option for the wall, but it is vey bad for my FPS :/

dennis · Post by **dennis** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:11 pm

Running this through a BSP compiler will get you better FPS ...

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:45 pm

Can I use Bsb in exterior_close setting?

patlecat · Post by **patlecat** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 12:43 pm

BSP is Interior!

Radiosity · Post by **Radiosity** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 5:51 pm

52k polys for that small part of the castle. The polycount for your mesh's way too high. Try simplifying it down..

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:20 pm

mmh, no, it's al the scene!

The Castle has only 13500 polys.

I must say that my computer is quite old(400mhz and Gf2Mx400 PCI)
I can grab many FPS when I choose 800*600 instead of 1024*769! More than I thougt.

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:17 pm

I post a screen of the global environmen of the scene. Just for fun. The pines aren't finished.

tomaso4 · Post by **tomaso4** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:01 pm

Hey i just wanted to compliment you on the castle, it looks great and I was wondering if you could help me make terrain similar to yours, it looks good too. My email is tomaso4@yahoo.com

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:10 pm

Thx for the compliments.

This is quite old screenshots, and the graphics have been a little bit improved.

For those screens, I used the defaukt Terrain Scene Manager, and the terrain texture was made with this tool(very easy to use). www.delphigl.de/projects/terrtexgen.html
The heightmap was made with Bryce, but you can do it with every painting software.

Now I use the Paging Landscape of Spoke, and Terragen (www.planetside.co.uk/terragen ) to make textures.

Antiarc · Post by **Antiarc** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:33 pm

Wow, is that an Ogre shot? It looks fantastic!

tomaso4 · Post by **tomaso4** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:14 am

Thanks for all the advice, it all worked out very well. I spent a little while acquainting myself with the tools and made a few good heightmaps, I especially like terragen and its editor abilities.

But now you have awesome looking grass, and I envy that too :-p

how'd you do it?

oh and I have one more question, something i completely forgot about before. I have some trees, most of which are between 20,000 and 100,000 faces each. I made these using different tools which model trees for you. But lets face it, i don't think any tree is worth that many polys heh. Short of designing the trees myself (which i will be attempting this week) do you have any other pointers? Also, I'd love to hear more about your project, I went to the homepage you gave back in a previous post but i believe it was in french, which might as well be greek, or latin, or german, because I don't understand it

neocryptek · Post by **neocryptek** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:06 am

wow, that grass is very nice!

-N30

KeaponLaffin · Post by **KeaponLaffin** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:28 am

The mountains... the grass... it's fantastic!!!

bad_camel · Post by **bad_camel** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:34 am

And if it is an ogre shot, what fps are you getting?

Looks very slick

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:41 pm

Ogre Shot, of course.

It is taken with a 400mhz -Geforce2MX400 PCI (32 mo) and 256 sdr PC 133, in 1024*768 with AA 2X and I get 2FPS

It's quite low, but I'm still searching a way to optimize it.

Now, I'll have an Athlon 64 3200+ with a X800pro, and I don't know how many FPS I can get with such a pc.

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:48 pm

I'm back, and I still don't have my X800 pro

But now you have awesome looking grass, and I envy that too :-p

To do this grass, I downloaded a free model of grass on www.3dplants.com

Then, I made a 2D view rendering under 3DSMax, to get an alpha blended texture. I created a X-like mesh with two planes, and I applied the texture to get what you see

I have some trees, most of which are between 20,000 and 100,000 faces each. I made these using different tools which model trees for you.

You used what tool? I'm starting to use XFrog 3.5&Xfrog tunes, wich are sharewares(I use the trial version to see how it works, and if it is useful)
www.xfrogdownloads.com
The models I get are between 75-120 000 polys :s

I think I'll make an english version of my web page, it will take a few time, but I wait for my Graphic Card, so I've all the time I need

Edit: ok, I've created an English board for the forum http://antharia.free.fr/forum

Just notice that I'm not a good programmer, but I try to do as much as possible to improve rendering and to simplify the programmation of the game.

tomaso4 · Post by **tomaso4** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:51 pm

thanks a ton Crashy, I've tried alpha textures to no avail before, if you find anytime to email me a little bit more information on how to do it, that'd be great. all this modelling is still very very new to me and there's just so much to know

Oh, and I'm interested in how your game comes out too, so drop me a line from time to time when you get new screenshots and new info. I'll send you back one from my game the second it looks more presentable

well, here's a small picture of the laboratory:

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:47 pm

Not so bad, I do like the style

Here is a little screen with a little grass emprovement, but the sky texture has dissapeared while loading the grass. My old GeForce is near to die

http://antharia.free.fr/include/screens/nscreen4.jpg

Ok for sending you some helps and infos about the game, this is really no a problem

RoundSparrow · Post by **RoundSparrow** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:23 am

Crashy:

I am starting out with Ogre and need some grass / tree samples to start with.

Is it possible for you to share Ogre code and textures for a scene like this:

thank you.

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:22 pm

Wow, happy to know many peoples look at my webpage

Textures: I've found the grass on google image, so I think I can give a link to it(if I refind it. I have the image on my HD otherwise)

The trees are from sputnick program.

the most I can share is my little programm wich helps me to load a huge number of objects and position them easily, and the armor shader(not very optmised, from ShaderWorks and integrated with Kuranes Help).

RoundSparrow · Post by **RoundSparrow** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:25 am

Crashy, please share what you can. Thanks.

Crashy · Post by **Crashy** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:12 pm

here is the texture http://crashy.cartman.free.fr/pouet/herbe1.tga

for the loading program, let me time to ehance and to comment it(so I think I 'll share it this weekend)

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