wow =x

Eeep!

Beautiful pic. It seems kind of strange that you mnually create the reflection mesh yourself, rather than computing it. Are you using lightmaps or vertex lighting for the highlights on the car?

Wowzers, very nice.

I like the demo, it's very clean and runs well on my GF3. The only thing I noticed is that the reflection model does not include the roof, so when the camera swoops down low you can notice that the reflection is not the same model as the car. In any case, I really like what you did with the textures, colors, camera, lights, etc., though the tiki-torch style particle systems are a little hokey.

-Ez

RAGGARBIL!

Extremely cool car :-) Nice rendering too... what can you say? There isn't really much to add...

Nice work!

thec

When I run the screensaver, the camera motion will be perfectly smooth for between 1-3 seconds, and then the camera will jerk a little, and things will be smooth again. Could this be LOD or something being recalculated? When it IS smooth, its so smooth that I'm pretty sure it could run that way continuously, if it wasnt being interrupted by something.

Processor: 800mhz amd tbird
Video: Geforce 2 GTS
RAM: 512mb

Looks interesting. I think you could do better:)

Sweet looking car model! =)

Probably Windows. Windows sometimes does some disk caching or something a few seconds into an application

Nice ride!

cool lighting!

Sweeeeeeeeet

Duuuuuude!

What Does Mine Say?!

Holy high poly counts batman!

Looks awesome!

how are all of us 'weak' coaders supposed to compete with that!? ;)

Nice car indeed!

I noticed the shadows are quite interresting, are they generated each frame or are they only generated by a stretched static precalculated shadow map of some sort?

I meant to say that the jerking keeps happening as long as I run the screensaver

When i tried to run it i didnt see anything. I tried the viewer, loaded the viper and nothing. I tried the winamp plugin and told it to load the viper, nothing. I have a p3 600, 256mb ram, geforce 256 ddr w/ DetXP drivers, Windows XP Pro.

-SirKnight

I came across that problem with my GeForce2 on an Athlon T-bird 850. Not with this particular demo (I gave my 850 + GF2 to my girlfriend), but in the past with the cinematic sequences in Deus Ex and Unreal Tournament. There seemed to be several things that helped:
(lowering the resolution did NOT help, BTW.)
When I installed the latest drivers from VIA for my PCI-to-AGP bridge in my motherboard, it got better, and when they came out with updates for UT & Deus Ex (Deus Ex uses the Unreal engine...) that fixed what they called "thrashing" on the GeForce, that helped too. It shouldn't have been disk speeds either, because I was using an ATA66 Quantum Fireball. I also upgraded to Direct X 8.0a. After all of the aforementioned fixes, the cinematics in Deus Ex still caught a few times (and the sound chopped!) in the first few seconds the first time thru, but then smoothed out and would run smooth until I closed and restarted the program. I'm guessing it has something to do with Direct X & the GeForce2 MX (the original model), but I'm not sure exactly what. Just thought I would share my experiences...
p.s.
Don't feel sorry for me for getting rid of my GF2. Be jealous. Now I have an AMD Athlon T-Bird 1400 (clocked to 1425), a GeForce3, a 46 GB IBM DeskStar drive running at ATA100, 512MB of DDR RAM, a SB Live, and an NEC MultiSync true flat CRT. :)

Amazing car model !


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What a pity ! It dont runs on my machine :(
I've got a P3@500 with 390Mb Ram, Matrox G450.
When i try to start it, the system stop the execution referring that the program caused an internal error.
Hope this help.



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Few tips that might help. Try a lower resolution for your desktop. Make sure DirectX 8.0 is installed. Can you tell me which operating system you use?

The jerking can happen when there is not enough texture memory and textures are being swaped. When AGP texturing is disabled you will see a big performance hit. Try a lower resolution of your dektop and make sure that AGP texturing is enabled.

Did the winamp TV demo run correctly?

The shadow is in a texture and it is precalculated.

The car uses vertex lighting combined with lightmaps. The lightmap uses an alpha channel to make sure it is not to strongly visible. The manual creation of the reflection can give a quick result of what is needed in this scene. The body of the car in the reflection is still quite a lot of polygons not showing that the reflection is way less polygons.

That's a really nice car model. Did you make that yourself?

The shadow the car casts, is that calculated in real-time, and if so, what method do you use?

Tip: Why not knock up a quick VIPM system and apply it to the original car mesh and see how that works out? (That's a nicer excercise code-wise than optimising the car's mesh by hand)

Is that a Honda ?
;O)

The model was imported and then remodeled. Remodeling a non real-time object the original was is necessary since a polygon reducer does not reduce parts that are half visible. For example the engine, which cannot be seen, is completely removed. The original object also had many small errors that I had to fix. Many parts of the car could be seen trough. Remodeling an object will always give better results then straight import of a non-realtime object and automatic polygon reduction.

The shadow is non realtime.