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Yummy TDiR... Go Shred go!

This a mod? If so, for what? If that's JK, color me impressed. If that's all your own work, color me impressed. If not either, then eh... Maybe.

No, it's not a mod. It's a TC. :p Check out the link in my signature. And no, it's not my work, but it is Shred's work, for our "little" TC.

Keep it coming guys, its looking pretty damn kickass now.

I'd better not give my uncensored opinion on DBZ if my massi forum account means anything to me, but the artistic value of this TC is admirable.

Excellent job, Shred!

Ahh, good to see you working on it again!

We are using JK's level of detail system now!
We have a whole new hierchy, so the characters are the proper proportions. I figured out how to convert the keys, so Jon programmed a nifty key converter, so we dont have to re-animate everything.

One thing that makes me love TDiR more than all the other DBZ mods is that it keeps the original DBZ feel. It's like the show...in 3d. I love it, and I love you guys, great job as always!

To me, all TCs are mods, and that it would be a TC would be obvious by the fact that nothing remained unchanged...

Anyway, that IS JK, so I must say that I'm impressed. As for the numbers for LOD models, are those polygon counts? I thought JK only supported surface counts up to 300, and I don't think an average of 10-poly surfaces would seem right... Nonetheless, amazing work. The new version looks just like it actually was DBZ; at first glance, I thought the first new pic was a stolen shot!

That would be 300 per mesh. And as for that number I've seen it vary.

JK support meshes up to 512 surface or 512 verts or blank (Some unknown factor. Last I checked, theorized to be texture vertices) per mesh. 300 is usually considered the safe limit though. Since these are per mesh, it means that a model can have very high polies, as long as it's split into a sufficient number of meshes. I remember that model, actually, lol. It was originally for UT2k4. I remember bugging Shred with some of the smaller details. Lol. Question about all this though... Has it been tested with say, 4 of these characters ingame? If so, what was the framerate? I ask cause I've seen JK get problematic with high number of visible polies (It still functioned, but seemed to have a dramatic slowdown). (Usually takes several thousand, and granted, not all the polies on the models would be visible, but, just wondering)

Shred you are definatly elite man... and you clearly watch way too many cartoons

Wow, excellent color and great job with the superhero body proportions.

Actually its exactly 500 poly's (thats, tri's) per mesh.

And yes, it is a little high on the polygons, but thats why we are using the lod system. When you are playing, the only character you ever see in full detail is your own, its not often anyone else gets that close to the third person camera. Also, ss3 goku is probably the highest poly model I will make

Notice the clipping of the water in the first old pic? Notice its not there in the second? Its completely eliminated!

And we are working on fixing up the netcode and a bunch of other stuff.

The Picollo model... Hmm, I thought his antenna were always up in the show?

As for the limit, there was actually a thread, where someone managed to get 512 surfaces to work, but higher, failed. Higher than 512 verts also failed. However people have spoken of models within both of these requirements which failed, which led to the postulation by some that it may have to do with the number of texture vertices.

http://forums.massassi.net/html/Forum2/HTML/011251.html
Is the thread. 300 was suggested as the "safe" limit, to avoid the unknown factor.

Yeshwa, that's beautiful. I remember trying to get TDiR to run, and getting damn runtime errors no matter what I tried. Which sucked, because I was a loyal follower. Played RealDBZ thrice a week, as well as the *pants*. I will literally re-install JK for this.

-I lost it in the reformat, so I lost all my beautiful levels and mods. Crap.

No worries. The 2nd release to massassi will include an updated launcher that handles the runtime errors, checks if the JK CD is in the drive, and is damn near idiot proof.

And some yummy alpha blending:

Sweetness. I remember when TDiR was first released. My friend and I just could not get the multiplayer to work. He was never able to see my server nor I his. Cool beans.

Got to say it's great.

damn i thought i'd heard the last of DBZ....

To be quite honest, I don't think the settings you used do that work justice. I would reccomend turning on anti-aliasing, as well as anisotropic filtering while you're at it, both to the highest settings. Though for many people, (such as myself with my pitiful Radeon 7000) it will yield un-playable framerates, it is still much better for taking screenshots; all of the screenies I've psoted here have been AA-ed in some way or other. (though I admit that for JK, I can't get AA working, so I took a 1024x768 screenie, and shrunk it down with filtering)

...which is, exactly what they've done here.

What HRJ said. :p I took the before pic in 1280*1024, Shred did the after ones in 1024*768 I think.

Holy holy! You people are sick, and I love it. RoX can't even try to compete with this.

But will it lag?

If you have a decent low-end video card (by today's standards) you'll be more than fine, especially with the LODs.

As for multiplayer, well, that remains to be seen....

Well I'm sure if you can run Doom3 or Half-life2 or BF1942 then his shouldn't be a major problem, though JK does have a tendency of lagging (mainly due to no dedictated server support). Im amazed people could play JK back in the days before cable modems.

You forgot that people back then liked to have to re-enter a room again, and again, and again...:p

I downloaded it weeks ago but it wouldn't load :S

MUST PLAY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!


(loves DBZ)

-PA