Working on some various models 2.

[Divran]

Epic.
You need to make some weapon models for PewPew...

[Grocel]

Make some animated buttons, like a push in movement on pressing.

[Tolyzor]

I was playing with one of these today and thought of wiremod

A real life laser ranger, this could make an even more realistic ranger model.

It is damn cool, playing with it really was like using a wiremod one haha.

[Matte]

Are these models released yet?

[Bull]

They would only make sense in combination with the dynamic button lua.
However, I personally hate all the different tools for the same thing. (Explosive / Simple Explosive , Pod / Adv pod)
So I rather merge the two into one tool.

[Dav1d]

These models are really nice and all, but they're.. kinda low poly.
I mean really low poly.
They don't need to be that low poly.

[Bull]

Buttons are small objects which are used often.
180 polygons is more than enough.

[N00bDud3]

How many polys are the current buttons? If it's a good bit more than 180 then Bull is doing a great job making nice looking buttons with so few polys. Why should we use around 700+ polys when we can get the exact same look in a much lower poly count?

[Bull]

Oh, it was 160 instead of 180.

The shape of the model is nearly exact the same as the cheeze models.
160 polygons, instead of 456.
Material cost for each different button is 43kb, instead of 117 base texture and additional 117 kb for each different button.

So, to have my buttons 0-9 it would cost:
1600 polygons, 430 kb textures.
versus:
4560 polygons, 1287kb textures.

[Schilcote]

Less lag is always better.

It'd be nice to have a control panel prop too... just a little stand with a plate turned at 45 degrees on top of it, about three-quarters the height of a player...