Reflections on Starship?

[divVerent]

Performance impact with moderate settings, 7600GT, on demo with me and 1 bot: 146fps average -> 71fps. With me and 15 bots: 120fps -> 37fps. This shot has less fps, as it was made with "ultimate" settings (just realtime world disabled).

[Ed]

Would be nice, yes. I've seen the recent changes in DP and do like it. I'm guessing it's quite dependent on effects that are set. Is there a fallback? No reflections? Is that too big a difference?

Edit: I'd set some refraction and reflection shimmering in there. You could actually reduce the detail on reflections too by rendering alternate frames or lowering res. I forget if DP can do that or not.

[divVerent]

If reflections are off, the map will look just like in 2.3.

Edit: it can't alternate frames, nor would it look good (but you can lower the resolution). And I don't think refraction would fit on starship... I rather see these glass faces as perfectly straight, considering everything else in the map is strictly geometrical aligned.

[Ronan]

Yes, I think starship look better with reflexion, especially with others players models like on this screeshoot :



About performance, the de-recompiled starship in svn (without reflexion) is much faster (my fps increased by 50 % with an old ati card), so there is space to add reflexion.

[Shoe]

I'm for it. Shouldn't be much of an issue if it can be toggled. Stylistically it fits in without seeming gaudy.

[GreEn`mArine]

I would also say yes, but only if it isn't much of an effort (apparently not, as it seems to be implemented already anyway). The reason why I say this is because starship is a bad performing map anyway (FPS wise) and I don't see it being played too often - not only for the FPS reason

[divVerent]

Badly performing? Starship performs quite well for me with reflections disabled - especially after the recompile (with reflections off, it gained about 40% fps).

[Urbanshenkie]

I like it but it looks unnatural atm beacuse i can see the stars. maby it looks bether without the sky under the ship or with lesser reflection.

I voted yes , but lesser reflection

[divVerent]

So you'd prefer the glass to be a full mirror, and not transparent?

[Urbanshenkie]

no , but lesser mirror like , just a little but reflection