optimize pipe models

[wsor4035]

using 8k vertices per thing - via sfan5

[SwissalpS]

Sounds like the fps on my ancient system will drop to 0.002 :/

[kromka-chleba]

It appears that there are low-poly models disabled by default.
They can be enabled easily by changing enable_lowpoly = false in default_settings.lua to enable_lowpoly = true.

The default high-poly model has 3600 triangles while the low-poly has 100.

High-poly:

Low-poly:

[SwissalpS]

If only that setting would be a client setting...

[wsor4035]

hmm, in my opinion the low poly doesnt look as good

[kromka-chleba]

hmm, in my opinion the low poly doesnt look at good

It isn't beautiful but IMO the textures are bad and it's not simply worth 3600 triangles.
You could make a similar looking low-poly model with ~300 triangles. I know how I'd improve the low-poly model to look more like the high-poly counterpart but I'm not that interested in working on this because I don't even use the mod. I simply giggled when I heard about 8K poly pipes and had to check it out.

Anyway I could offer my help for a small-ish tip or trade it for implementing some minor feature from my wish list for the Luanti engine.

[wsor4035]

tossed this together in blockbench, obviously im not good at 3d modeling, but just to give a visual of something thats a bit more "blocky" (12 sides to it)

EDIT: just to make it explicitly clear, this is a followup to #148 (comment) as a quick and dirty external shape prototype

[wsor4035]

unfortunately the texture kinda hides the pipes "blockyness", also the joints are bad :/

[SwissalpS]

tossed this together in blockbench, obviously im not good at 3d modeling, but just to give a visual of something thats a bit more "blocky" (12 sides to it)

Why not just make them solid? Doesn't the hole make it more complex for nothing?

[wsor4035]

Why not just make them solid? Doesn't the hole make it more complex for nothing?

not really, its just three cylinders added

[SwissalpS]

looks like three hollow cylinders -> faces on the inside will never be seen so needless complexity. Three solid cylinders would have less faces.

[S-S-X]

Don't get it, if going to simplify why not just make them solid? With these details the hole make it more complex for nothing.
This is meant to be a feedback for drafts and suggestions in an attempt to voice opinions.
Hopefully feedback wont get unilaterally suppressed.

[wsor4035]

yall are nitpicking, its a simple shape demo. made from three simple cylinders for fast prototyping. obviously i could delete the insides to make it more optimized, but this is just prototyping.

i again refer to

obviously im not good at 3d modeling

[blaboing]

tossed this together in blockbench, obviously im not good at 3d modeling, but just to give a visual of something thats a bit more "blocky" (12 sides to it)

EDIT: just to make it explicitly clear, this is a followup to #148 (comment) as a quick and dirty external shape prototype

blocky concept looks good to me, low poly version could even have 50% less sides and still work.
about hollow/solid it´s pretty "nuts" to argue about that after those make the original even more unnecessarily complex 🤣