----I think i have made a discovery!!----

[Lentonius]

Well, firstly i apologise if this is all known throughout the community (and boy I would be stupid:embarassed: ) but i accidentally seem to have found something quite useful concerning sprites

While modding units, i realised that my sabine warriors didnt seem to have a sprite, or, rather, it was a very good one. Most sprites make the RTW engine look quite old and Medieval TW like, as you cannot see an overhead battle in much detail.

Here is a screen.
https://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2145/discovery3de.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Belive me, it may not look impressive, but go into your descr_model_battle file and remove the lines concerning sprites. e.g

type BI_officer_sassanid_captain
;--------------------------------------
skeleton fs_dagger
skeleton_horse fs_hc_swordsman
skeleton_elephant fs_forest_elephant_rider
skeleton_chariot fs_chariot_sword
skeleton_camel fs_hc_swordsman
skeleton_scorpion_cart fs_carriage_ballistae_crew
indiv_range 40
texture sassanids, bi/data/models_unit/textures/BI_officer_sassanid_captain.tga
model_flexi bi/data/models_unit/BI_officer_sassanid_captain_lod1.CAS, 15
model_flexi bi/data/models_unit/BI_officer_sassanid_captain_lod2.cas, 30
model_flexi bi/data/models_unit/BI_officer_sassanid_captain_lod3.cas, 40
model_flexi bi/data/models_unit/BI_officer_sassanid_captain_lod4.cas, max
model_sprite 60.0bi/data/sprites/BI_officer_sassanid_captain_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

DELETE the line in red. In battle, the results are very impressive

Lentonius

[Panama Red]

Have you checked what it does to your FPS when you remove these sprites ??? You need a very powerfull PC/Graphics card to paly the game with out sprites and not everyone's PC can handle it.

[lt1956]

I think you should read the tutorial section, you will see this is nothing new.
:juggle2:


And you will get a significant performance hit if you play with Larger unit settings than 40 men, try the 160 unit setting or Huge, and then make 2 full 20 unit armies. Have them fight, one battle with sprites and one battle without, and let me know the performance you get. :book:

[Lentonius]

well, my PC can bearly handle a full 20 unit battle anyways, but normally on smaller battles of say 500 men it is fine.

[player1]

Why just not make new sprites using sprite editor?

[Lusted]

Removing sprites seriously affects the preformance of RTW, my mod TW suffers from a lack of performance as it does not have sprites in its current version, though i am now working on them for 4.0, sprites really increase the performance, and battles without them can be very laggy.

[lt1956]

Lusted you should let this thread die, I have no idea why you resurrected it from the bottom, let it sink. :embarassed:

[Lusted]

I didn't resurrect it, player1 did.