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CoreDumped · Post by **CoreDumped** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:48 pm

very nice! model looks amazing.

BTW, don't u think a dark texture like that hides the small details ?

looks beautiful tough

Xavyiy · Post by **Xavyiy** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:57 pm

yapdakilla wrote:Hi Virion. For racing games like need for speed its normal to have cars in access of 10,000 polygons.

Anyways heres an update on the craft textures. Will be exporting it to ogre and working on the level soon.

Amazing model!!!!!!!!!

lf3thn4d · Post by **lf3thn4d** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:19 pm

Hey guys. I'm the programmer for this project. Here's an update for something finally Ogre. About time we see some next gen graphics in ogre eh?

Done using Shader Model 2.0 still pretty primitive shader. I'm planning to add support for maximum of 3 lighting.

Anyways, Enjoy:

This is rendered with GeForce 6600 GT. Textures are all compressed with dds compression. Normal map is compressed using DXT5nm. Total sum of 4 textures.
Diffuse (DXT1), Specular (DXT1), Illumination + Alpha (DXT5), Normal (DXT5nm)

Cheers.

CaseyB · Post by **CaseyB** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:27 pm

HOLY CRAP!! That's PRETTY!!!

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:49 am

whoaaa *stunned*

kcbanner · Post by **kcbanner** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:12 am

What, no programmer art! Things tend to look good when an artist touches them

alter_ego · Post by **alter_ego** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:43 am

pretty cool, but where does the driver go?

lf3thn4d · Post by **lf3thn4d** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:30 pm

Update:

Now with 3 lights implemented.

I had no choice but to use Shader Model 2.x or i would not have enough instruction for illumination. Guess I'll need to have a 2 light fall back for 2.0 shader.

Enjoy.

alter_ego: I suppose this update answers your question?

dodongoxp · Post by **dodongoxp** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:31 pm

pretty cool, but where does the driver go?

maybe inside hehehe

andreu_as · Post by **andreu_as** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:12 pm

Really fantastic!!

I hope the enviro be equal than the main model!!
I can't wait to see more!!

Serrux · Post by **Serrux** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:27 pm

That model looks gorgeous, I look forward to seeing the rest of this project : )

yapdakilla · Post by **yapdakilla** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:05 am

Hi guys, heres a small update on the track. still very early work in progress though.

p/s: 1500x750 images attached might take awhile to load.

Jaiza · Post by **Jaiza** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:24 am

wow this is really looking awsome! well done.

How many artists are working on it? just the one?

Jallen · Post by **Jallen** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:43 pm

Thats some pro art there.
Can i ask what modelling program you use?

Ruud v A · Post by **Ruud v A** » Sun May 04, 2008 6:56 pm

Man, that looks awesome. Which program do you use to generate the low poly model and normal maps? Or did you do that yourself?
I see you used MaPZone for the moist texture (or am I wrong?)

huydotnet · Post by **huydotnet** » Mon May 05, 2008 8:12 am

cool! i'm waiting for the first game release

yapdakilla · Post by **yapdakilla** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:24 pm

Hi guys,

We only have one artist for this project and we use blender as our modelling package and the normal maps were generated using crazybump and as for the moist texture its just a single specularity map.

Jallen · Post by **Jallen** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:51 pm

That crazybump thing looks awesome. I have blender but i never really got round to using it. I much prefer coding to modelling but it would be awesome to be able to make my own art and not have to get a team.
So you have to pay for that crazybump thing to use it for your distributeable game?

freegamerblog · Post by **freegamerblog** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:27 pm

Absolutely amazing work thus far.

However you forgot to mention what "type" of project this is - commercial, shareware, freeware, or open source? (This is very interesting to many viewers.)

yapdakilla · Post by **yapdakilla** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:32 pm

freegamerblog: well we intend to complete this project for commercial release

jallen: yes you have to pay for crazybump.

another update on one of the props designed for the game.

Gillian_Seed · Post by **Gillian_Seed** » Thu May 15, 2008 1:25 am

Your graphics are very cool, and I would like to do something cool with Ogre, too.

I have two little questions about the use of Blender with Ogre :

- what is the exporter you use to get your graphics from Blender to Ogre ?

- is it easy to integrate your Blender scenes into Ogre (cameras, lights, 3D models, textures, etc...) ?

Thanks for your answers, and keep up the good work !

lf3thn4d · Post by **lf3thn4d** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:48 am

Hi, thanks for the comment.

We use only the mesh export part of the ogre's blender mesh exporter. For textures and materials, we custom made them. We figured this makes it alot easier and allows us to templatize the materials; e.g. integrated shadow, normal maps, glow, etc.

As for scenes, we are using the dot scene exporter to export blender's scene into ogre's dot scene format.

In terms of how resource is loaded up is pretty custom. We have fixed rules on how we categorize the media files which mostly resembles the Quake method of resource loading. This fits very well with ogre's resource manager. I believe it's resource group system was written with Quake style in mind.

yapdakilla · Post by **yapdakilla** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:57 pm

some of the building architecture style update

Daerst · Post by **Daerst** » Fri May 16, 2008 7:19 pm

What did you do to the stairs? XD

Looks great all in all, but I'd change something around the bottom part of the 2nd building... Stair texture... And the door thing looks flat and cheap somehow (you set some high standards before...

)

yapdakilla · Post by **yapdakilla** » Sat May 17, 2008 5:13 pm

Hi Daerst thanks for the crits n comments.Did a minor update on the stairs textures and as for the doors I dont think i'd be able to up the polycount too much tho

just depending on the normal maps to add depth to really simple poly shapes.