Great to see you back, and, that the game is still in develop!

The screens and the character looks great!

Thank you
i will be sure to post some more pics in the following days.

The new screens look awesome. Very good news that you can use higher res textures now cause the textures in the beta were a bit lowres. Succes with the further development of the game.
Can't wait to see new pics!

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO wheeeeeeeeeeeeeen????????

no sleeping, no eating and no breathing allowed for you guys till you get out this demo!!!

Lokks really good, i like the details you add to the scenes (not sure though if lots of 2048/2048 skins are a that good idea)

cheers

Looks amazing. Details like the plate and the toast are very nice. Congratulations.

There is some other good news too, by splitting the level into smaller segments, the loading time has decreased immensely and also the FPS on my system is running a low of 50, average around 65, and a high around 95. I don't think 3DGS likes the all-model level much still, but we should be able to get the load time and FPS to acceptable levels with some work. The load time of the all-model level is my main concern at the moment. I think we have the FPS under control though.

Loco

Everything is looking better, and I'm glad to hear you're getting those framerates under control. Can't wait to check it out. I like the new player model, too.

I am considering taking the all-model level, creating a database from it that stores origin, model_file_name, etc, and then in the game, actually ent_create() the models the first time they are in certain range of the player. It's just a concept, but if it works, it would solve the long load time of all the many of hundreds of complex models at the same time during the intial level load. It's just an idea, and may not work if the game stalls creating the single models during gameplay.

Hmmm.. probably won't work with checking vec_dist() every frame for all the possible models that could be created slowing the FPS down too much.

Anyone try something like this before and have it succeed or fail?

Loco

how about trigger nodes and not loading model by model but groups or streetblocks? whenever you are near one "checkpoint" the surrounding modelgroups are loaded and unloaded. So you would only have to scan for the nodes.


the only thing i would be worried about are the huge texture sizes you have and the ammount of space and time they will need to load.
From seeing google earth a method could be to load the models with very small placeholder skins and once the loading is done run a rutine to replace the small skins with bigger ones one by one. So you wont get lags or framedrops because of huge buldge loadings.

just an idea though

cheers

Yeah, that's not a bad idea, depends if the FPS drop to do the vec_dist() checks on all the single possible models to create every frame is worse than stalls when creating small groups of models at the same time with less vec_dist() or trigger checks and adding real skins later. Hmmm... As a programmer I know which method I would hope is more efficient. The first method is about 3 or 4 times less programming. Heh.

Nice idea, I will have to think about that.
Thanks.