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Robot... of Doom About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Robot... of Doom // Work in Progress 1  |   Order by default Post by Davin // Aug 26, 2008, 10:47pm Davin Total Posts: 59 So this is an old WIP that I had started before my 3 years of working 2-3 jobs at 120 hours a week. I started it in tS5.5 and now I want to finish it in tS7.6. I will be using the Normal maps as this is a intended for use in a game. It is fully triangulated at 1743 faces. The reason it is triangulated instead of using square polies is because the engine I am going to optimizing for is using OpenGL2.0 and OpenGL likes triangles more and renders them faster than squares. The engine uses DX9 also, but I don't really care because I like OpenGL more. Programming using OpenGL is much less stressful and a lot less redundant than programming in DX. Any way I don't have much from the old forums but there is the sketch I drew while I was in college, the texture map I am working on and the scene from when I imported it into tS6.5. Post by TheLion36 // Aug 26, 2008, 11:56pm TheLion36 Total Posts: 36 Looks good! :) In terms of optimising I think both Direct3D and OpenGL pretty much like the same model optimisations... Direct3D also prefers triangles, actually it doesn't even support drawing quads directly like OpenGL does! :) For both batching by texture is the way to go (unless you use vertex/pixel shaders then you first batch by by shader then by texture) and they both love their triangle strips! :) Post by Weevil // Aug 27, 2008, 5:36am Weevil Total Posts: 534 I've always preferred direct X...well in t anyway because you get more options and less lag... Anyway, that's some nice modelling...like it...

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