RPG WIP (unnamed)

[GMer]

I had an idea for an RPG since 9th grade (now I'm a freshman in college, FTW), I finally have a backstory for it. I would like to leave it as a surprise, but you start out running from the English church (yes, church. Think medieval), as... well... you can see why the church wouldn't like this character ^^



Yup, those are dragon wings. He's about 600 poly, the trees are about 60 poly, the grass a flipbook, the entire ground (about 5000 textel linear length) is an 800 poly static mesh. Here is a few pictures of the environment you run through, being chased by guys with torches ^^ . The woods were inspired by those a few miles from my college, I still have a long way top go though. Need more grass/small trees.





I get a framerate of about 100, this is the perspective the game will be at.



What are your opinions?

[jamieo01]

This looks very good can't wait for a demo the character model is very good for how many polys it is keep up the good work

[GMer]

As I said, the character is around 600 polys. Since I am a one-man-band here and have college to compete with my time, a demo will more than likely be released this time next year. But I assure you it will be quite a demo.

[Gamemaker]

I like it so much and I can't imagine that FPS is like 100. My StaticMesh terrain is like 700 polys and without any models its FPS is like 30.0, but I filled with my map with bushes (4poly each) and some trees(20polys). I have there like 50-60 bushes and 10 trees, and then FPS goes like 14-15. With FarClipPlane and Fog it's like 18, when I'm in bush-area ...

Also I tried scripted bushes (2polygons). I added them as Pawns and scripted them to Face Player always, but then the FPS got higher, probably because Genesis had to handle 60scripts also. Dunno what to do, but I liked your pics


-GM

[GMer]

Dunno what to do, but I liked your pics

Aww, you just made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

I forgot to mention, the static mesh has the VisCheckLevel set to 2 (per face), my fog distance is 800, character is standard scale.

I took off the per face vis check, clipping plane and the framerate hovered between 80 and 100, once it dropped to 40 for a frame. Weird...