Rope Bridge Modeling

[nick_op]

I'd loft the railings and use a 6 sided cylinder for the shape. That way, you have complete control over the number of side the shape has and the number of path steps, which can be adjusted on the fly.

6 sides should be enough for the rails when they are smoothed as they player will likely never see the ends, which might give away the shape, as they are embedded in other parts of the object.

It might be that you have to sacrifice some of the more poly intensive bits e.g. the pink ropes in the wireframe. I'm afraid that's part of optimisation.

[Senten]

nice meshes :goodjob:

[BusterWolF]

Originally posted by nick_op
I'd loft the railings and use a 6 sided cylinder for the shape. That way, you have complete control over the number of side the shape has and the number of path steps, which can be adjusted on the fly.

6 sides should be enough for the rails when they are smoothed as they player will likely never see the ends, which might give away the shape, as they are embedded in other parts of the object.

It might be that you have to sacrifice some of the more poly intensive bits e.g. the pink ropes in the wireframe. I'm afraid that's part of optimisation.

yeah i know, once i went into it i kinda forgot about it. Further on once realised it i thought it shouldn't be a problem. Until... i tested it.
i will just rework the ones that have too many poly's.

[BusterWolF]

Can you see the differance?

It has 14,583 poly's
Thats 28,925 polys's DIFFERENCE!

[nick_op]

Good job. I imagine it should be much better performance wise now.

[Senten]

Yeah nice work! :goodjob:

[Razorwing]

Nice job optimizing it that much. I'd imagine it's perfect facecount-wise now :goodjob:

[BusterWolF]

razorwing. can i send this to you now? i havn't set up any collision since im not soo good at it, i guess it will be wiser if i give it to someone who knows about it.

How can i send it to you?

[Razorwing]

BusterWolf sent me a copy of the ropebridge the other day. I worked a bit on the mapping and on the collision, and now it's finished and will hopefully become a fairly common sight in Silgrad Tower v3.0. Here's a few Construction Set shots of how it looks, with a random NPC for size reference.

[BusterWolF]

Isn't this a bit too big? It's looking abit...off. If you think the same Razorwing, I give you permission to change it. I'm having problems with my internet for now and can't communicate much. But seeing it in-game really is good sight.