look of zealot Starcraft 2 - Page 5

On June 30 2010 08:28 ZeroCartin wrote:
So let me guess. That head texture itself has a 1024x1024 or 512x512 size. Am I right? whats the polycount? Is the head using the normal map?

On June 30 2010 09:10 Orange Goblin wrote:
It will be banned, guaranteed. And it makes sense to ban it.

It's easily exploitable.

On June 30 2010 09:14 pzea469 wrote:


Currently the texture for the head itself is 512x512. The head is also using its own normal map, emissive map, and specular map.

I have not gotten around to combining the textures so that it requires just one of each map. I'll probably get to that once find out if it'll even work on ladder. So far i have only tested it with in replays and through the map editor and games vs the computer. All offline though.

i havn't checked what it is currently, i can't remember if i lowered it anymore or not, but not that long ago the old zealot vertices count was 3130 and the modified one was 3856.

On June 30 2010 09:18 pzea469 wrote:


I can only think of one thing, and that is that you make a unit like the ghost into a sphere so that you can more easily distinguish it from the marines in the enemies bio ball. Making it easier to feedback and stuff. However you can't make the model be visible when cloaked and exploit it in that way. Not that i know of i guess. You also don't have to worry about an opponent making their units look weird because only he will see them. But idk, maybe theres something im not thinking about?

On June 30 2010 16:33 Silu wrote:


I guess you haven't played older FPS games much. If I get this right you could make so called "spike models", have units (better yet, mains to spot spawns and expansions) with long (like, LONG) sticks protruding in multiple directions - that way you can pretty much see where they are in the fog without scouting much at all. Not quite as good as a maphack but up there.