Freestyle Gunz V8 Pre-Release Progress

[Historia]

We're using a completely different color scheme for v8.



Not sure. Maybe for v8, maybe later in a future update.

Ah too bad.. but I know it will look good either way

[Dave]

Ah too bad.. but I know it will look good either way

It will be awesome.
The v8 website will outmatch any other current and future GunZ server easily when it comes to functionality, design (thanks to Rain) and speed. It will look very professional.

[StephanM]

It will be awesome.
The v8 website will outmatch any other current and future GunZ server easily when it comes to functionality, design (thanks to Rain) and speed. It will look very professional.

Now an optimised client and you are gucci (textures, models (items) & maps).

[Dave]

Now an optimised client and you are gucci (textures, models (items) & maps).

I did manage to optimize a bunch of textures by about 20-35% in file-size.
All-in-all, it might be a 50MB win at most which isn't too bad given the size of the full client.

[StephanM]

I did manage to optimize a bunch of textures by about 20-35% in file-size.
All-in-all, it might be a 50MB win at most which isn't too bad given the size of the full client.

See, this happens when you listen to me :p.
Wonder if this applies also to some skill map textures n stuff that can be just done with xml .

You know where to find me if you still struggle with some optimisations .

[Dave]

See, this happens when you listen to me :p.
Wonder if this applies also to some skill map textures n stuff that can be just done with xml .

You know where to find me if you still struggle with some optimisations .

I'm doing maps next, I am currently creating a script that will optimize them all without needing any interaction.
I did find some maps with huge textures (7MB) that I managed to get down to 30KB in some cases.

The .FGZ filesystem we (are going to) use already does some good compression so the filesize of the whole client will not be significantly less, but it will matter when everything is loaded into the memory. Loading a game should also be slightly faster.

[McSic]

Wonder if this applies also to some skill map textures n stuff that can be just done with xml .

I've done xml optimizations for all maps and got rid of duplicate textures, while optimizing all jpgs and pngs we have.

[StephanM]

I've done xml optimizations for all maps and got rid of duplicate textures, while optimizing all jpgs and pngs we have.

Might be best to move everything to BMP/DDS/TGA (forgot if they were lower in all cases vs JPG/PNG).
Though for UI I would go with PNG :p.


But good to hear you pick up the pile that was left behind that really needed to be dealt with .
In any case if you cannot figure it out or still need some minor pointers just ask, I do not mind helping out the squad.