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

**Lentonius** · 04-01-2006, 19:43

Well, firstly i apologise if this is all known throughout the community (and boy I would be stupid

) 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.

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

Code:

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** · 04-02-2006, 01:17

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** · 04-02-2006, 05:32

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

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.

**Lentonius** · 04-02-2006, 08:53

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** · 04-09-2006, 09:09

Why just not make new sprites using sprite editor?

**Lusted** · 04-09-2006, 14:13

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.