[Model] AA Mapspace reduction/teamcolor

[Infrisios]

Hey ladies and gentlemen,

when checking through DotA's files the other day I saw that the AA model requires a huge ton of mapspace.
It does not need to do that, though.

Compression:



You can try to find out which one is the original, everyone I asked had invalid reasons for their decision and most people were wrong.

The right one is the original, the left one has been compressed.

So here's what I did:
His upper arms use an animated material, meaning they change the texture every 166 milliseconds, cycling through 6 textures:
Units\Orc\IcyGhost\BlueWaves001.blp
Units\Orc\IcyGhost\BlueWaves002.blp
Units\Orc\IcyGhost\BlueWaves003.blp
Units\Orc\IcyGhost\BlueWaves004.blp
Units\Orc\IcyGhost\BlueWaves005.blp
Units\Orc\IcyGhost\BlueWaves006.blp

Each of these is slightly different to the others. However, the difference is so small that you won't notice it ingame. So I removed them all and replaced them with an ingame texture that equals Units\Orc\IcyGhost\BlueWaves001.blp. This texture is Textures\BlueWaves.blp.
The 6 textures took about 30kb, now we're down to 0.

The hands have an own texture (Units\Orc\IcyGhost\hand.blp), but it is really nothing special, so I decided to replace it with a roughly comparable texture. I ended up using Textures\Ice3b.blp in the end, which fits very well to the model in my opinion.
From 5817 bytes down to zero.

The main texture is Units\Orc\IcyGhost\ice.blp.
I compressed it a bit, the old compression was not exactly strong.
From 53kb to 37kb.

I also compressed the model itself, of course. Without any visible loss of quality, it went down from 48kb to 33kb.

Team Color

He got almost nothing now, only the attached sphere FX.
It is a kinda difficult point. The best way, in my opinion, is simply adding a teamcolored particle emitter:



If you do not like it, I also tried some alternatives back when we first implemented AA into DotA. I did not take a lot of time making these and was very sloppy, if we were to implement them I'd remake them.

Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5

And now the rest of the compression stuff:
This is how it looked originally, AA taking 137kb:

And that's the suggestion, AA taking 70kb:

Problem, 8MB limit?

Dislike any of the compression? What do you think about team color?
Got more ideas about what to add? I'm thankful for any feedback.

[Sven2k]

T-up for team color on the shoulderpads only and hey hey gj at compressing the size

[Lotus V Eater]

amazing! good job~ insta-implement is needed...

[D' Eradicated]

I sense instant implementation... T-Up...

[LeraX]

can you fix his hands that they look like the old version? i don't like that they are abit white.

also t-up good work

[Infrisios]

Originally Posted by LeraX

can you fix his hands that they look like the old version? i don't like that they are abit white.

Could simply use the original hand texture, would then take 5817 bytes more.
I can also look for an alternative texture.

[Ez_Mystery]

No, I like it when AA takes up the map space, it makes him stronger

On a serious note, I don't like any of those team colors, they look kinda wrong
I think for AA, a simple glow under his feet would be enough
Or, is it possible to make the spheres larger and team colored?

[Super_Duflair]

Nice job man, nothing wrong in this sugg, i also like the team color. T-up

[Nevfigalo]

Replacing AA model with existing one will save even more space, but of course IF will not do it. :/

Good job, but team color seems unnecessary.

[nitinai12]

Why not?

Rampage T-Up

[E02K]

Link 5 T-up but my question is why u waste your time posting it here instead of sending it directly to IF?

[Schremba]

Of course, a MSI reducen is awesome. As for the team color, I like the version with the colored runic stuff on the shoulder pads. While this stuff here is all great and of course way better than current one, I'd still prefer an ingame model, but I think that's just me.

[O_xD]

on everything, link 3 for teamcolor

[Fate Trap]

T-up.

[Nicolback]

on the MSI reduction.

T-Null on the colors though.

[Infrisios]

Originally Posted by SHTO

Link 5 T-up but my question is why u waste your time posting it here instead of sending it directly to IF?

I posted it to him and he did not change anything :P

So I decided to do some more stuff and add team color, but both IceFrog and me prefer to hear some opinions before.
That's mostly why I suggest stuff first.

[nEr0]

T-up

[E02K]

Originally Posted by Infrisios

I posted it to him and he did not change anything :P

So I decided to do some more stuff and add team color, but both IceFrog and me prefer to hear some opinions before.
That's mostly why I suggest stuff first.

u got your beta testers.what other opinion is better than them's?

[MassBalance]

Insta T-up

[Straight Flush]

Originally Posted by Sven2k

T-up for team color on the shoulderpads only and hey hey gj at compressing the size

^That

T-UP