Five Elite Mercenaries are send to an Island in middle of the 1980'. The Task: Find and Eliminate a local Drug Baron. Features: new Physic, real Sunmovement, Day/Night Change, Hunger/Food system, realistic (!) Weather system, Light/Dark viewing system for AI, 5 different Fractions on the Island. Complete Realistic simulation of nearly all things, including Sleep. New weapons, new Vehicles. Vehicles driving system is now exact (!) like GTA IV , FireSystem,... this mod is Heavily inspired by GTA, IGI, FarCry.
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worked two days and have now additionally 9 rocks and some tree stumps.
have exported all to a special folder and branched it to a small new map which i will deliver together with the mod as eye-candy level.
nothing special, just a usual corridor-styled outdoormap without story or great interaction, just walking, shooting and yawdropping as long your machine can hold it :D
i have created for each texture 1k,2k and 4k maps, so for such a little fun project i can use 4k maps, that means a packed (!) dds texture for each (!) object is 10mb in size (including 2 mipmaps, those are the lower detail versions of the same texture which you can choose in texture quality options).
but this is only the diffuse map, then i need a bumpmap, a normalmap and some times a specularmap. that means 4 textures = 40mb textures for each object.
now you maybe understand why this is a big deal :/
ps.: left tree stump ~8000 polygones
rund tree stump infront of the jeep: ~2000...
Amazing work like always! Also, I hope that the mod is stable with those textures when they are in such a high resolution.
i dont know, but i hope^^ as far as my experience was, only 8k textures can crash randomly, so i use 4k as maximum.
have tested this with 3 different GPU's, 2 different OS and 2 differenct CPU's and chipsets, more is not possible for me here.
but you can be sure that i stress my working environment very very hard, is there any doubt about stability, it would die immediately ;)
have simultaniously open 3dsmax, editor, fc exe, gimp and a videocapture program on a dual monitor setup.
this is maximum possible stress for all software, d3d drivers (and i use here a mixture of opengl and d3d ^^).
That's good to hear! If it crashes only with the 8k and even if its randomly, the 4K is good enough, and in the worst case, you can always use 2k for the maximum stability.
However, I don't understand, why you are using gimp and not the paint.net, which takes less memory than GIMP and it's easier to use.
i have bad experience with .net based software, i banned net framework stuff as most as possible. i also use the old gimp2.6, because the new one have no usable interface for image exporting.
gimp 2.6 use 46mb for its own, this is one of the lowest memory usages i have here. (wxp, 32it).
i bet paint.net use looooooooooot more and wont run properly in that environment ?
Why have you banned net framework? Does it make problems when modding or because of something else?
Unfortunately, I can't test it on WinXP because of the bad HDD and on Win7 it has almost twice the amount of RAM used. However, It's weird why then the performance is a minus for the Gimp on this site: Slant.co
gimp 2.8 is also net based, i was totally shocked as i installed and tried gimp2.8, where i was used the workspeed of gimp2.6 .
i deleted the 2.8 version very quickly after view days of use, its really total crap.
>Why have you banned net framework? Does it make problems
> when modding or because of something else?
i have had the impression, but it may differ on every system and workspace. the net framework is a additionally code layer, i try to avoid such software as much as possible, same for java or shockwave/flash programs or silverlight and so on. at the end of the day, ever such thing is a risk for a stable system, especially which those extreme workloads i have here.
I wish, that one day, the new versions of the programs will be always better than the old ones. It's definitely a utopia now, but maybe in a one hundred years or more, it will be a reality.
I understand and I also avoid programs like the Java or flash.
every new program will not only fix bugs from previous versions, it will also add new features, and if there are no bugs left, new additionally features will be add.
that leads ALWAYS to the somewhat called "bloadware" and ends up in a overloaded, slow, buggy program. usually at this point a new competitiv program with only some rudamental corefunctions but totally stable and working with high speed enters the wild and voila: the bloadware one is death.
now the cycle begins again with the new one ;(
i byself just stopped upgrade always any program at a point where i think it its stable, fast and have all functions i need, because i have seen sooooo many programs which becomes slower, more unstable, resource hungry and with cutted functions to force you to buy it.
That's the reason, why the programmers, shouldn't add new features, unless the bugs have been completely fixed. They can release a new patch a few days later, after they test it, the latest version.
My thoughts exactly!
yeah, but then are very stupid pple in the net who cry about old, not updated programs which are then automaticly bad and ofcourse unusable -.-
That's true, but they should ignore those idiots. If it works, don't fix it. That's the thing, which the people need to remember, since a lot of people don't follow that rule.
oh i'm pretty sure ALL will follow after everyone learned their lesson the hard way :D
but that needs time, and the old users, who have learned that, are not in the mood to write endless comments in forums/boards (which are also total outdated :D )