F-4 Phantom
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Hey Manos,
Nice work on the model optimisation. Is it possible for you to show a picture of your optimised mesh ?
Regards,
Gudule
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Hi Manos, this looks great!!
Please do your best to optimize but I think we can take 35K also as fine number, no need to kill the model to get below 30.
Also not less important (Maybe even more) is to optimize the number of textures, 1 sheet should be enough for a Fighter size AC, don’t fall please to the crazy size texturing that you may see elsewhere, this is just burning GPU time and 99% of time those super extra details won’t be noticed anyway. 1 4096 texture is more than enough, and 2048 for the default please.
Also we will need lower LODs of course. I suggest to contact Switch directly if you have any questions about the exact details.
Cheers!
Thanks for the info and the kind words I-hawk I will see what is possible and what not!
Lower Lods are possible now that the model is still on the start and with the new tool Arty told meHey Manos,
Nice work on the model optimisation. Is it possible for you to show a picture of your optimised mesh ?
Regards,
Gudule
Meaning? Wireframe ?
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Even like that looks nice. Clean lines!
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Nice mesh indeed ! Thank you
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Nice mesh indeed ! Thank you
Still on export tris remain and not quads but i might do something will research a bit further
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Doffed,switched,armed and ready for her skin
Enjoy!
By the way in 3ds the count is 34.991 tris (yes i saved some more!) Lodeditor (cause of double sided stuff) reads 35.224 nodes. Lod viewer 2000 more probably cause of other stuf??? anyone can explain that?
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Very nice!
Cheers
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I think lower lods doesnt need wheels and stuff right or all they need is switched wheels and not doffed ones. I mean the lower Lods must be preety basic as anyway the distance for them is big and you dont really need those details. As pilots as well maybe just a bulb instead of a full figure of a pilot its gonna be fine i guess. Thats gonna make my life a lot easier if it is that way. Anyway news is that im of for a week from home. Still got my laptop with me. Its not a huge asset but at lease it runs decently 3ds max and photoshop so i guess i will make my experiment for the skining i allready have some ideas and some of them seems to work But i have to spend time and go face by face. As my good friend Radium said unwraping its a long process and it takes time. If i cant do it as i want to (as said SF2 style,flattened) then i always have the skins i have now for the current set of Phantoms witch can be easy be 2 textures (1 basic skin and 1 alpha) it wont be perfect but it will be ok plus will bemore easy as i allready have a bunch of skins! Also good thing is that i kept almost 9 different versions of the mesh while working on it and one of them as shown in the pics here in the start of this work (new model i mean) its unslatted wing witch also will made my life easy making the hardwinged EJ or early E aand last thing the majority of the parts (almost identical size) are easy changable between the current set of Phantoms and this one.
I hope i didnt said too much i will leave you for now with another pic.
Cheers!
PS. Always save your work… ALWAYS… lol… One of the most feared moments yesterday was when i finished dofing and switching plus the slots i export the model and i quickly close 3dsmax without saving!Fortunatelly i had the autoback and i was able to continue and after maybe 20 minutes i realise the bottom of the fuselage in Aim-7 racks its not symetrical so i cut it in half and make symetry again after that the same mistake… I will never learn i guess…
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I think lower lods doesnt need wheels and stuff right
Correct, just look at the lower lods in LODEditor of another aircraft to see the difference.
C9
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I went for autoave and never looked back:
Yeah i might need to get the number of autoback a bit higher hehehe… it saved me a lot of times its true
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I believe this is given to you:
http://www.e-redstar.net/gallery/F4_IC2000.html#!prettyPhoto -
I believe this is given to you:
http://www.e-redstar.net/gallery/F4_IC2000.html#!prettyPhotoI do have the book as well “under the skin”
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Also i strongly advice everybody to use riboyster sound pack: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?31981-RSM-Phantom&highlight=Phantom+sounds as my dat files are tuned to this. Im sure he can halp u all if you wanna install them its not that difficult at all….
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In other news:
Progressing slowly and steady the unwrapping : Most of the parts are allready flat cause its either edited from the current model or made flat either way the main theme here is to make a flat UV map for the fuselage -
In other news:
Progressing slowly and steady the unwrapping : Most of the parts are allready flat cause its either edited from the current model or made flat either way the main theme here is to make a flat UV map for the fuselageI see less unnecessary tools on the top bar.
Good work with unwrapping! :clap2:
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I see less unnecessary tools on the top bar.
Good work with unwrapping! :clap2:
Hahaha yes cause i unwrap in max 2018 in 2013 i had a problem with a plugin or something that messed up my toollbar so i was trying to figure out witch button was so i made almost everything vissible untill i found the one!
To all others i decided to release IDF first cause the g is gonna take a bit of time skinwise. First post updated
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U unwrap in 2018???
And how do you go back to 2013 or 2014 to export?
U export it as fbx?
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U unwrap in 2018???
And how do you go back to 2013 or 2014 to export?
U export it as fbx?
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No i export in 13 in lod format and yes cause i found it much more easy in 18 and in some parts automatic flattening works like a charm in 18, unfortunatelly i have to go back to 16 and then 13 (never had the 14)
Also i find a lot “lighter” the 2018 version than the 2013 and much more steady so i think is time for someone to make an exporter for 2018 version or update the current one.