Modding in WAR3DII Gettysburg....First Impressions.

[Von_Clausewitz]

What is the limit of men we can have on a batlefield? Would it be possible to have a napoleonic scale battle? 300,000 men including both sides with a ratio of 10 to 1. Meaning 30,000 actual men on the battlefield without crashes with today's PCs?

Thx
VC

[Joshua l.Chamberlain]

Are you talking about waterloo? That would be cool I've always wanted to play a large version of waterloo than the imperial glory sized version.

[Jim]

Depends on how pretty you want your battlefield. The GB historical maps are highly detailed and accurate. This means a lot of terrain sprites with resulting load. We are still finding things to make the game perform better so things are not firm.

Based on where we are now, you *probably* could have 30K troop sprites on a battlefield with a playable frame rate. This would be affected by the level of detail on the map, number of uniform types, option settings within the game, and performance of your system.

-Jim

[Von_Clausewitz]

Well with most players switching to quad cores it should be pretty feasible to manage all that with these beasts no?

VC

[Jim]

Writing programs to work with multi-core systems is a fundamental shift and adds significant complexity. You can't just code for 4 core, you have to cover one, flavors of 2 and (so far) 4 cores. We will need to make the shift at some point, but it is not a small task at all.

-Jim