Hey Aztec Your alive?
Like ure work, but i have to criticise she shape of the spoon. Why is it so "sharp" at the top?
Also the fork should be a bit more bend in my opinion

At the kitchen, the "Worktop" the Edge of the Front / Top Faces, is rounded? Could be look better with an clear and sharp edge.
AND where are the drawer / cubboards?

In the "TV Picture", please make it a bit brighter it looks too Dark (Black TV / Loudspeakers / Alarmclock / Table under Alarmclock).

The Last Picture looks great so far, but could maybe looks much greater with some additional Lights.

So Far, Great to see u again here with some nice work

Regards Sebastian

tree models having billboard lod thx to txesmi (1500 pcs without model merging)
(soldiers too, but they switch from 3d bone animated model to a separate animated sprite)


desert scenes are faster

What is the billboard lod?

Edit: i looked up for it in Google, i presume i know little more.

they are 4 vertex sprite-like models, having a texture of the 3d model view, facing always towards the camera.

looks good .

GS could use this too

Sounds cool!

I can make next week a little demo of it if there is an interest. Indeed a very useful little thing what I really missed from 3DGS.

Wow nice! Of course there is interest in a Demo!

Hm since you cannot really post images in Showcase threads and my old projects thread is rather dead, I will make a Superku development post here for now:

I had this idea for a level where you'd activate some kind of water pump or boiler, which would then lead to rising water and you could reach heights and areas which were inaccessible before. Obviously, you'd release a bunch of piranhas as well!

The water (and to some degree the piranhas as well) posed a big problem for me, I just couldn't get it to work. It was supposed to move or rather flow around the corners of a tile based level, if possible in all directions, meaning downwards too. A simple wavy but level water line was something I was trying to avoid.
One of the first (~3) tries of which I took footage, based on multiple tile based models:


can be seen here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xThbpZ478i4&t=7m28s

Next steps here:

Part II:


(EDIT: Oh and there was another again tile model based approach where I would deform high poly meshes so it would look like the water had breaking waves (towards the camera). It was by far the best looking stuff but I had huge problems with connecting the tiles at different water levels nicely.)

Then someone told me about a thing called Metaballs which basically are distances to positions (like the low res tile map in my level) summed and compared to a threshold, resulting in liquified contours. Final result:




I'm not 100% satisfied but I say it's good enough to move on. I spent way too much time on this level but at some point I just had invested too much already to give it up completely. I think the metaball concept can be expanded into many more effects, maybe even gameplay related stuff!

EDIT 2: The final result is just one big 2face quad mesh across the whole level, no need to place all those small tile models manually.