New World map for WTP Options

[Sir-Kill]

here is the final render of the world map v. 1

Click here for homepage click the 'View Large World Map' link to see a bigger image but you will either have to play the game or mod for wtp to see all the details that I have put in there

Some stats:
rendered in 3ds max7 w/o any post work
psp8 to create the textures
full image 8000x6336
Mos size 61.9mb
vertex count 36781
poly count 32999
triangle count 72660
texture/maps used 179
different elements 34
rendering time about 1 1/2 hrs.
start/end time Mar 17 2006 - Dec 6 2006
263 days worked, conservative estimate hours worked per day 5 = 1315 hrs

Crazy or dedicated??

this has been a learning experience for me. There has been 2 versions created but half way through the first I had to start over since my computer is a hunk of junk and I created too many polys for this computer to handle thus the restart.

This post has been edited by Sir-Kill: Dec 7 2006, 11:30 PM

[Baronius]

The mos at full size is 64mb, at 50% it is 15mb.

If you are talking about the 8000x6336 reduced to 3968x3136, the new image is actually less than four times smaller after the reduction, because ~50% change on the height/width results in ~25% on the area of the image. Of course it's still much bigger than the BG2 wmp if you say that's 1470x700.

Valiant: I think that a large MOS will only result in higher RAM usage, and depending on the speed of the HDD (as well), it might load for a longer time. Once it's loaded, there shouldn't be serious problems. That is, for the owners of PCs with smaller RAM/HDD it's just a question of waiting some time; once (or rarely). It should be tested though.

CPU doesn't have much role here, though the overall performance of the PC certainly determines how smoothly WTP will run.