Re: [TuxKart-devel] GOTM release?

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

James Gregory <j....@vi...> writes:

> Well, ideally we don't want to demand people have geforce 2s,

Lowest level that I would care about are TNT2 and MatroxG450, with
reduced LOD level that might be doable.

> however if it's a choice between that, rewriting the whole 3D engine
> or going back to the old kart models, the choice is less clear cut.

The old karts are 400-800 polys, a new medium-LOD kart would be 500
polys, a low-LOD would be ~250, high-LOD 1000-1500. So in case I get
all the karts + LOD levels modeled, we should be more or less save
performance wise and be at a similar level like the old version, well,
at least for the simpler tracks.

>> -We should make the tracks a bit more attractive by adding more
>> background stuff. It would also be a good idea, to add a
>> possibility for skydomes (ie. 6 images projected on an infinitely
>> far-away cube), that typically improves the look alot.

> Well, if you're going to do this then I'm certainly not going to
> complain, but it does strike me that in the time it would take someone
> to make this work, maybe they could have written new AI code or
> something else more vital to the game 's basic playability.

Skydome should be relativly simple from a programming point of view,
the biggest problem I see with them is really how to create them,
since you can't simply draw them in Gimp. Some post-processing in
Blender or so might be needed.

> And is Straver still working on the smoke? If not, then maybe we
> should just remove it (unless of course someone else wants to make
> it look better).

Smoke can be easily disabled in case it doesn't get better, no need to
remove it.

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