Does this make sense?
idtaminger:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 November 10, 23:55:00
I think Carrigon did the ashtray. Pretty sure.
I have the pirate ship as well, and had to put it behind Inge's lockable gate to keep the flood of adults off of it!
I actually thought the pirate thing was interesting, and downloaded it, only to open it up in SimPE and find that it had about 10,000 faces! Are so many faces necessary for a bunch of boards? I mean, really.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: idtaminger on 2005 November 11, 00:11:31
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 November 10, 23:55:00
I think Carrigon did the ashtray. Pretty sure.
I have the pirate ship as well, and had to put it behind Inge's lockable gate to keep the flood of adults off of it!
I actually thought the pirate thing was interesting, and downloaded it, only to open it up in SimPE and find that it had about 10,000 faces! Are so many faces necessary for a bunch of boards? I mean, really.
I have no clue what the pirate ship is. I have the smokable cigarette though
Motoki:
Quote from: sagana on 2005 November 10, 23:37:51
Ya know... I think that's going a bit far. I love those mobiles and if they really are so easy to do better, I sure wish people'd make more of them. I could use other designs and recolors and the like.
I do believe I could do one with a lower polygon count and a bit more versatile if I wanted to yes. However, I really have no interest in making one. Modeling is tedious and time consuming and not something I'm personally willing to do for something I have no intention of ever using. It doesn't mean I can't critique someone else's model or to do so is "going to far". My sister does art and believe me she and her friends are critiquing other things all the time. Hell that was part of their curriculum to do that when they were at art college.
As someone who has modeled before, and someone who is aware of polygon counts and the fact that it's generally best to keep them as low as possible in games because there's a lot going on, yes I think I have a right to say someone could have done something a different way. There are certain techniques you can use to keep your polygon counts low and one of them is alpha channels. It really only works on flat objects or pieces, but it reduces the count a lot and allows for a lot of versatility.
I've seen a case where one modder made a plant using alpha channels to make the holes in the leaves and their plant was about 800 polygons. Another creator made a very similar plant that was 25,000 polygons because they meshed out every single curve and whole in all the plant leaves. To look at the plants in the game, they really looked pretty similar and there was nothing that made the high polygon one look better. In fact in my opinion and that of several other people when I posted the comparison, the low polygon one looked nicer.
So Sagana I do have some fucking clue what I am talking about. Rennie on the other hand has actually said at one point that polygon counts didn't matter at all which is total bullshit and if you don't believe me ask the guys at Maxis.
RainbowTigress:
I composed a reply to Rentech, and I tried to be nice about it, stating the facts in a rational manner and not being accusatory. I understand what you are saying, baratron, and it it's not really my intent to make fun of anyone who is mentally ill. It's just frustrating, and talking about it here helps to release my frustration and get feedback that I'm not totally losing my mind! I really don't know Rentech very well at all, certainly not enough to even mention anything like that to her. I really don't want to argue with her, I just want to know what happened. Here is the post I sent:
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Who exactly at MATY demanded that my toddler hair be removed from VS? I would really like to know because I have no files hosted there, and I'd like to know who told you they were. I've asked Pescado, and doesn't know anything about it, and quite frankly could care less where my files are or aren't hosted. True, he just opened up a forum for people to upload small files if they want, but I haven't uploaded anything there. If you no longer wanted to host my files here, that is fine. I would have appreciated it if you had simply told me so. Instead, I find out only because I came to check things out on the forum and discovered that the thread was gone without a trace and I no longer have access to the remaining one. Why didn't you inform me of this? I don't see that is too much to ask.
I also had to delete several PMs even to send you this message because somehow during all this, my PM allowance was reduced to less than the current number of PMs I had stored. In spite of this, my email address is on file, and you would have been able to contact me that way.
I would still like to know the answer to my question about my rep, which was in my original message.
vecki:
Well I may as well add my last response to Rentech on the account deletion matter. I invited her to show me where she told me that I was on read-only access.
Surprise, surprise, there has been no response for the last 3 days:
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You did not reply to my first message. I think you're referring to reggikko's original message, which I later copy-and-pasted.
Of course, I have a limited PM box and any time I have sent a message, I have had to delete at least one message. Please feel free to send me a copy of the message you originally sent. Or don't. Because it doesn't exist.
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