Project Mir station complex / UR-500 family

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I'm using a blender recreate the orbital station MIR. decided to cover the modules with cotton wool as it was in reality but unfortunately it is expensive. в on average one module has 80.000 polys. if you connect the modules together, a loss of computer performance may occur
will my model be playable?
 
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I'm using a blender recreate the orbital station MIR. decided to cover the modules with cotton wool as it was in reality but unfortunately it is expensive. в on average one module has 80.000 polys. if you connect the modules together, a loss of computer performance may occur
will my model be playable?

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It will likely depend on the graphics client you use and the hardware of the player.



But generally speaking, there is a better solution. Since a high-poly mesh already works better on a D3D9 client, why not use its capability for normal mapping and replace the many triangles for producing the texture of the MLI (what you call cotton wool, its actually multi-layer insulation) with a normal map to produce the shading during rendering time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping

That is pretty much the primary use case for normal maps, what you are doing.
 

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Looks very detailed :) but it's still too early to spot any problems.

Now you need to separate the mesh into different groups for each material/texture, and that might change geometry a bit.
UV mapping is also needed for texturing and it's not trivial for some of those geometries - I suggest starting with the solar panels.

Finally, you might do a version with panels retracted for launch.

So it's looking good, but still much work ahead!
 

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thank. I am in the mockup stage. details and textures and I will do it as soon as all the layouts are ready now I mark up the main elements of the module just in case upload them to Google Drive
 

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That looks very nice. I can't remember the last time we had a new Mir addon(apologies if I'm forgetting someone...).
 

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I don't know anything about the module's solar arrays "Spektr" (length width volume angle at which the top solar panels are installed segment size) I would not like to do them by eye


area of main solar panels 2*27 m2
additional panels 2*38 m2

angle additional panels 107°

enough information thank
 
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