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by **Turner** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:54 am

Currently, the pictures of the player models in the options-player menu aren't very coherent. Some are pictures, whereas some look more like screenshots.

Couldn't the picture previews of the character models be more uniform, such as a full color screenshot in a plain-background map for each model? I find some of the pictures don't look very much like the models. I understand this is rather trivial, but I hated asking someone what model they were using only to have them say they were using the exact model I was.

Just a thought.

by **Mr.Carlyle** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:45 am

I concur. The model previews could be better.

by **tChr** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:02 am

why a pic ata ll? why not a realtime render?

by **THE PYTHON** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:05 am

A real-time render would be great. I'd be curious of its execution though.

by ai » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:21 am

tChr wrote:why a pic ata ll? why not a realtime render?

I actually agree. Was gonna suggest that if tChr wouldn't done it. With that you could have it rotating (and perhaps also manual rotation with the mouse).

by **Ildamos** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:35 pm

Yes it is indeed a bit disturbing seeing a series of pictures without any singular theme.

by **divVerent** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:37 pm

Yes, I would want a realtime render too... but no idea how to do it. Currently, the engine isn't able to display models in the menu code... that needs to be added, and then we need a menu control that displays a model. Could then also preview the colors.

by **torus** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:00 am

Why does it need to be a realtime render? Why not an embedded quicktime/java/flash-like 360 view? Might be more feasible than an actual render.

Just an example:
http://www.e2etech.com/mediaPR.shtml

by **Mr.Carlyle** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:10 am

torus wrote:Why does it need to be a realtime render? Why not an embedded quicktime/java/flash-like 360 view? Might be more feasible than an actual render.

Just an example:
http://www.e2etech.com/mediaPR.shtml

In Darkplaces...the engine?

by **KadaverJack** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:37 am

torus wrote:Why does it need to be a realtime render? Why not an embedded quicktime/java/flash-like 360 view? Might be more feasible than an actual render.

Because there are 19 different models/skins and 225 color combinations for each one. Do you really want to include 4275 prerendered previews?

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