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[Nocturn]

Ya, cool tent, like it more than the new Orc Hut

[Sindwiller]

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[Daaark]

I like the tent.
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[Mr.Fletcher]

It kind of looks too much hand painted for me. Couldn't you make the textures look a bit more... professional? Regardless of that, it looks like a nice tent.
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[Daaark]

Why does hand painted not look 'professional'? It's a perfectly valid style. I think if his game managed to keep that look consistantly across all the objects it would look rather unique.
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[Paul-Jan]

To go back to that Orc hut for a moment: I figured out what was going on with the 'z-buffer precision'. You are using an 'alpha-blended' texture, which means the z-buffer cannot be used. Instead, DeleD has to fall back onto a simple per-polygon depth sort for this material. Normally, where just 'the occasional polygon' is transparent, this is not a problem at all, but as you use this single materials for all polygons in the model (obviously), this can lead to little artifacts like this.

Note how most of the available game rendering engines out there suffer from the exact same artifacts rendering complex alphablended surfaces, not just DeleD, so if you can think of a different way to model those bones without using alpha-blending, by all means go for it! The common solution would be to use a different texture for everything that is not transparent, but alas, for you that is out of the question...

Things like this make me realize we really really have to implement an alpha-testing blendmode for materials, not just alpha-blending. Ah well, some day...

Oh, playing around with the near and far clip buffer also made me realise those don't update immediately upon changing the setting. I'm putting that on the list!

Keep the low-poly modeling goodness coming!