Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby JamesLit » Fri May 29, 2015 11:01 pm

I'm sure many had their doubts....... :D

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Very much work in progress, with many details yet to be refined and many parts yet to receive total rebuilds..... animations to fix (as you can see if you look carefully!), etc. Hopefully next week I will have some pretty major news as to the rest of the path of the development....... :)
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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby Dave Fennessy » Sat May 30, 2015 4:20 pm

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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby JamesLit » Sat May 30, 2015 4:30 pm

Thanks for the likes and compliments gents...... :D

There are many parts of this model which are very old and are progressively being updated. Hence the reason for the middle driving wheel looking masses better than the other ones. The replacement of that caused the errors with the animation but I'd like to rip out and remodel the whole motion anyway. :)

It is, of course, the BR Standard 2 tender. I hope to convert it into the preceding Ivatt equivalent at some point too, and then maybe even do the tank versions of each. :) All in good time, though. Let's get this one finished, first, eh? :D
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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby JamesLit » Sun May 31, 2015 1:45 pm

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First update of the day.

Many things far less blocky than round!
Prepared to replace pony wheels.
Reworked boiler, firebox and smokebox!
Reworked buffers.

Still much more to go yet.

The current poly count is in the region of around 113,000 with very little optimisation done as of yet. I'm just going to go flat out and then do a massive clamp down at the end. A lot of extra polys are caused by the mesh smoothing of pipes and such and can easily be gotten rid of - though models with medium 6 figure poly counts are increasingly becoming the norm in TS, and will be even easier to tolerate in TS2, so I'm not too worried. I won't make it stupid, of course, but detail will be just as it should be. That's the goal anyway. :)
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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby cjbarnes5294 » Sun May 31, 2015 1:51 pm

Looking good, James. For reference, the latest JT standards aim for about 150k polies including LODs.

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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby JamesLit » Sun May 31, 2015 2:51 pm

cjbarnes5294 wrote:Looking good, James. For reference, the latest JT standards aim for about 150k polies including LODs.

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Thanks Chris, I will keep that in mind. :)
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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby Pauls » Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:37 am

FANTASTIC model James!!

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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby JamesLit » Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:19 am

Thank you Paul!

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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby cjbarnes5294 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:45 pm

Looking nice and smooth, James. :)

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Re: Just a little something I thought deserved its own thread.....

Postby JamesLit » Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:15 pm

cjbarnes5294 wrote:Looking nice and smooth, James. :)

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Much appreciated, Chris. Lots of poly optimisation will address any potential issues caused there. I know there's a lot of waste caused by what I'm doing, which will be taken care of with Germanic efficiency at the end. :)
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