Building the Ipod killer

So what's up with me doing stuff very late at night when everyone still sleeping? "I'm building a super prototype handheld device that can kick IPOD, Nokia or what every handheld, pda or what so ever in the market. Still in production so can't say much right now.

PART 32: Textured wheelsets

Here a finished textured models for wheels. Its a quick work. Before that i just remove to first outer ring meshes on top of the rivet perimeter to save up the polycount. Then i continue with UV mapping...after that texture work. Most texture work just texturing the rendered center flange, UV mapped then photopaint it..while other parts just used back the previous texture that was attached along. This time i'm not using some high complex nuts, bolts and outer rims bolt rivet for detailing works because these meshes are high poly and would exceed over 6k poly per wheel which could lag on certain PC machine and the game itself.

PART 13: Interior walls

Back on my on PC again! This time my i'm free from tooth ache! Thank god and the dentist! I'm woking on making some interior models of the truck. The inner cockpit, i start making wall first. I cut out the exterior door, flipped the suface in and bludge inwards to make a proper hull and interconnect with other walls inside. The panels glass position remains unchanged. The floor and wall will optimised the use of low polycount so that it wouldn't lag much in games.

"X3-SIXTY" gettting chop off to pieces.

Its getting pretty closer to release date, there so much things to debug on both 4x4evo1 and 4x4evo2 format. Just now i decided to break clumps of around 900 vert of polyworth of per-parts into half which is somewhere around 400 vert or 700vert per-parts/each to make sure there won't be any of those game engine error shown on the screen when i set the game reflection on. I suspected that the latest DX9 graphic code wouldn't render heavily on high poly meshes in clumps of over 1000 vert per object, was maybe probably due to old game engine in 4x4evo1 and 4x4evo2 which still rely on DX8 technology. That would heavily impact on how i should manage my poly count models on my next creation. Here are summary of task that i did from yesterday until now:

1. -Breaking any parts with over 800/900 vert >> into half to tolerabe 400-700vert
2. -Improve LOD models, reduction of poly to 70%. Reduce around 9 parts to only 3 LOD parts...just necessary enough for "distance display"
3. -Remove bogus vert/de-vertex in game (Quality control over reflective effect/during shading or surface chroming)

All above task should've completed by midnight tonite so i can have more time do another test drive for suspension and traction setting tomorrow....that'll be much easy. After that its PSP time! lol.