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[Dupl3xxx]

I have some questions, does the YRenging (YRE) draw voxel dureing map load, or are they renderd in realtime?
Think about it. The game usually doesn't use more that 180-200mb of ram. On BIG maps. There are around 60-70 units buildable.
They need at least 32 flas angels.
60x32=1920.
There is 8 up faceings (ramps) and 8 down.
That makes 16 tilt frames. and on each tilt, it needs 32 faceings.
16x32=512.
Then there is the rocker weapons. there it needs at least a 180* rotation, on EVERY OF THE OTHER ANGELS.


1920 (all units flat) + 512 (all units tilt) = 2432

2432x180=437760.
and if each voxel needs 3kb of ram- 3kb x 437760 = 1313280kb, or 1313mb. Thats more that a gig of ram, just by the voxels. Than there is the mapfile itself, with all of the arework. and buildings, particels, infentry, and animations.

Then I wounder, how the heck does YR render voxels? I cann't imagein it useing flat images, but that is the fastest pre GPU, but über-kills your ram...

Is there anyone out there that knows something about this?
Did I calculate something wrong?
Anything?

[VK]

of course it don't draw voxels in memory.
Remember when YR was released 256 RAM was a lot.
it draw voxels in real time. also it have a cache, so if voxel didn't change direction, it not need process 3D and draw old 2D image.

also you don't see a lot of voxels at the same time usually. all voxels is rather small. so this isn't difficult to draw.

[Dupl3xxx]

Ahh, I see. Thank you

On a sidenote, is there a chance in the world you could replace the engine that drws the voxel with a new one? Or try to modify the existing one to suport more normals?

[raminator]

you could try to edit voxel.vpl
you might not get new normals but atleast more colors to use...
try to open it in a hexeditor and edit all 000000 to FFFFFF and suddenly the pink colors under the reds in the unitem.pal grt red too