Newsfiend
08-03-2009, 09:00 AM
Saroc_Luclin wrote:
Dev-Ngreth wrote:
tecdor wrote:
A simple thought in mind I had, something I never seen happen before that I believe should happen if people love it, would we see bunny familiars in the near future?
We would have to get a new bunny model.
Currently to get that model, we have to have a huge amount of other data loaded into memory in addition to the bunny. Basically npc's in zones before gates of discord were often baked into the zone files, and sometimes large character files (including all of the models in the zone). We currently have no way to pull individual parts out of that zone file, and the coding time required to be able to do that is larger than we are willing to spend at this time. We also do not have the original assets.
While we are willing to add large files like that for specific zones, we are not willing to do it for global memory.
I do not foresee us expending the resources to get a new bunny model. It could happen, but i do not foresee it.
So if I'm reading this right, IceFall glacier is basically the IceFall Glacier zone file PLUS the Eastern Wastes zone file, even thouhg most of the Eastern Wastes zone file isn't used for Icefall Glacier (other than the bunny model). Ouch.
At least the character file.
At least those files are much smaller.
Of course Steve may come in and correct me http://www.mapfiend.net/eq/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif But last I heard we cannot include old models in global memory if they are not already in global memory. (those old ones being baked into a global memory file)
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=153928&post_id=2254116#2254116)
Dev-Ngreth wrote:
tecdor wrote:
A simple thought in mind I had, something I never seen happen before that I believe should happen if people love it, would we see bunny familiars in the near future?
We would have to get a new bunny model.
Currently to get that model, we have to have a huge amount of other data loaded into memory in addition to the bunny. Basically npc's in zones before gates of discord were often baked into the zone files, and sometimes large character files (including all of the models in the zone). We currently have no way to pull individual parts out of that zone file, and the coding time required to be able to do that is larger than we are willing to spend at this time. We also do not have the original assets.
While we are willing to add large files like that for specific zones, we are not willing to do it for global memory.
I do not foresee us expending the resources to get a new bunny model. It could happen, but i do not foresee it.
So if I'm reading this right, IceFall glacier is basically the IceFall Glacier zone file PLUS the Eastern Wastes zone file, even thouhg most of the Eastern Wastes zone file isn't used for Icefall Glacier (other than the bunny model). Ouch.
At least the character file.
At least those files are much smaller.
Of course Steve may come in and correct me http://www.mapfiend.net/eq/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif But last I heard we cannot include old models in global memory if they are not already in global memory. (those old ones being baked into a global memory file)
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=153928&post_id=2254116#2254116)