WGL.Q wrote:Congrats mate
Thanks.
I was a bit surprised about the size at first.
Yeah I think the earlier version was like... 25mb, now its one-hundred-and-35 megs
Reason for this is simple; merged textures with normal maps (not specular ones as there was no need for them).
Every model (well ok 99% of the models) now has its own "big" texture. In one model I have merged all the small OFP textures into one _CO.paa texture using the known texture merge method (I used the pantool method), then created the normal map. Only a very few models have the merged texture with optimum texture space, meaning the model earlier had for example two 256 x 256 textures which I now merged into one 256 x 512 texture where there is no unused space. Rest of the times the textures had bit, to a huge amounts of unused texture space. Most offending cases were 2048 x 2048 texture which only maybe 128 x 128 texture using the "other halve" if you know what I mean. Meaning it was one texture too much to fit it on 1024 x 1024 texture, so therefore one tiny annoying texture caused this model to use 2048 x 2048 texture instead. Yes I know this could have been retextured immediately, but my goal so far has been merging textures, not retexturing (as I dont know how to UV unwrap).
Aaanyways. So you see that when we merged the textures, there was "always" unused texture space, this space was black... so dunno if it takes file size space much if at all, I just don't know. And then... when the _CO texture is done, we make completely brand new texture, the normal map _NOHQ out of it, plus the small text format rvmat file.
So that is the main reason why the file size of this addon ballooned from 25 to 135mb.
Yet the PBO as actually more of an object pack.
Yeah, in a way its like 95% objects and 5% terrain, hehe sort of
So again what about a wiki page that lists all models with screenshots to help world designers and mission makers.
I have now already done the class names as you requested on AGS addons, however making the screenshots of the objects and linking them into the class names is completely out of the question.
I am way too lazy/busy (take your pick) to do such "huge" task. I mean the hoped result or gain from this big task would be minimal if not completely nil. We never ever would know how many people would enjoy and find the images useful as nobody posts any feedback anyways. Sure if everyone and their mother would cry out in the forums requesting such things then yeah I might have to do them. But just to be super user friendly like that without absolutely no visible results, hehe never. Way way too much work to screenshot, prepare the images, link them into the class names, upload them into the web, prepare the page for them... uh my head hurts even thinking about that task. I already hated every minute of doing the presskit and those 4 screenshots for the (forum) release
BTW
Bugs; I already found out one quite nasty bug, there is one rubbish/trash pile model which should have transparent texture but instead it is white, it looks horrible was there is like this white square on the ground with piles of trash on it. Oh well, something to fix for v1.3
