posted 01-07- 02:09 AM               

I think I will save myself some grief and redo my fuselage with flat sides. It's just going to be too much work to match up the same texture on different faces at different angles and I'm not sure if there is a performance hit. I would hate to go to all that effort and find out it slows down the game.

TS

posted 01-07- 02:41 AM               

TS

posted 01-07- 08:26 AM               

I took these few captures to try to explain a couple of things I did

This shows The nose of the Hurricance

Heres the Mesh in wire frame, the section of the fuselage mesh follows the actual section from the 3 views I had, at least within the limits of the polycount.

The red bit is showing the part that was textured seperately to the rest, not a different texture just a different mapping session. It was basically a planer map horizontal to the "ground". The rest of the fusalage is a planer map vertical to the ground. I will be doing the underside of the nose and rear fusalage using the same technique later.

This is showing a cheat to remove the appearance of streaching. The right side shows panel lines drawn perfectly vertically, and so even though the there is sreatching it blends with like coloured sections so you don't notice. The left side has the correct paneling. I don't like this which is why I'll be re-mappin it later.

I hope this helps. Notice that I have also gone with the 3D tail feathers. The 2D ones really annoyed me for some reason once I noticed them. I don't know about FPS, but its easy to revert if its too bad.

BTW you'll be happy to know that I implemented that bulk import on OPS. Only catch is now that I need to do something with the matrix in a MAX script to get the prop, wheels and VStab right.

[This message has been edited by Bryan Russell (edited 01-07-2000).]

posted 01-08- 12:11 AM               

If you need an example of rotating parts around, I posted an updated copy of my script that rotates the wings before export on the OPP forum.

TS