@ Both
Thanks for the great feed back. I learning quite a bit. I may not make lots of changes if it ends up running good enough (30 fps+ 90% of the time), but ill likely need to if i want it to run good on the first gen version of windows phone 7. At some point i may make it run in windows 8 app store. or just on a web page in sliver-light.
I may consider porting to star2, if i can get the pitch, to to work on the models with code. (I tired few a few weeks never got it to work)
@ skrab
I think the polygon count is really high. You can lower it by deleting some polygons.
Ok, Got it. I feel it will lose some detail but more on that later.
Fence on the Layout can be made with less polygons. For example one polygon for each board or more.
Hmm. I think you would be able to tell alot of the time, that it only has one side. and isnt 3d. But your right its not a key model. and would serve a close to the same purpose with less polys. Great.
Track looks fine but you can reduce the polygon count by deleting the polygons at the bottom.
Na you can see the tracks when there upside down when riding the coaster, some times, depending on the ride. but most of the time you wouldn't. I guess if i had to lower it i could make the black part on it, flat. like one sided.
Tree trunk on the Layout looks high poly to me, or its just the distance.
Tree - 64 verts, 120 faces on them.
Good question. There used the most in the layout. Lowering them would make a good performance increase. but they start to deform when i lower more then they are. But I guess you cant see the back of them.. i could lower that. you can only seem maybe 70% of the tree, and you can get close if you make tracks near them.
Added Pic to First to First post
Cart is high poly to me. It can be drastically reduces if you want.
Well, If it doesn't slow the game down to much, i may leave it. But if i do lower it i can have 5-10 carts following behind it. But your right its gonna be the size of my toenail or less most of the time.
I had a sky, i thought was decent but it kept getting in the way in 3ds max, I ended up deleting it on accident but i still have a back up copy with it. I am saving that for last as my older bro thinks that i am doing the sky wrong.
I would suggest that you use some better textures. You can find some free at cgtextures.com
K, better textures on what? You better not be talking about my lighting blots! lol jk. I left the fence and ground texture-less on purpose as the grass texture i used before (the one on the tree) made it harder to build. and was going for more of a cartoonish plain look.
But ill check them out. Thanks
Is this a school project or you are making a real game?
a Real game. Its fairly functional at the moment, I should post it some where... But I been off and on this project for 2 years, i kept getting stuck with the 3d engine in xna. It ended up the whole time, the issue was i was using a messed up model. (Doe!)
Its all based on my war3 version of the game (
Roller Coaster ), with differnt controls as its on a phone.
But I started back up on it a few months ago. (most of the back end was already built 2 years ago).
Ya this is game I hope to get on the win phone 7 with advertisements or someone can pay 2-3 bucks. My brother does pretty good with apps on it, but he just has card games.
@ Tarrasque
I hear ya, I dont guess if your not that close to the model that much detail is pointless.
I like the models though.
Sweet. thats good.
You have to keep in mind the distance at which these model will be seen. Maybe you can use two models for the rollercoaster one low-poly when you see it from far and one with more polygons when you ride the roller-coaster.
-I think 1000-1500 would make the cart look fine both at long and short distance.
I very bright idea. If i can lower the cart model by half with out a huge amount of work, where it still looks decent at a distance this will be done.
Other wise, this is something ill keep in mind if there is performance issues.
You can try making 2d trees, like war3 billboarded planes.
I feel it would look way worse, but it would help huge on performance. so likely this is something that i should at least try. and even if it does look worse if the performance goes up enough i may be able to have the game run on differently with win 7 phone (gen 1) and win 7 phone (gen 2)
