Squints at everything

Amazing. This is ten thousand year old water trapped inside of a polished quartz crystal.

Instead of using a single model for something that appears in multiple areas, Island 2 has multiple copies of said model - one for every area it appears in. When it loads a new area, the game loads that area’s version of the model, adding more fuel to the loading fire.

(Keep in mind that there are multiple LODs for every model, and that the game’s EXE links together and handles pretty much everything in the game, resulting in huge path lists that clog up the game’s EXE. Not pretty.)

It gets better, though. If there are two models that are identical but have different textures, the models and collision files are duplicated just in case. There are two switches in the final area of the game which are visually identical. Both of them have unique models, and both of them use different models for the switch’s two positions.

This pales in comparison to what the game does during the Asteroids minigame, though. Every asteroid uses its own 3D model and collision file, resulting in 470 files to load. But two of the three asteroid variants are identical in appearance. So in a perfect world, the game only needs to load four files.

Around 27% (~178 MB) of the game’s filesize is made up of these redundant files. If you got rid of all of them, Island 2 would be smaller in size than LEGO Island 1. I am not making this up.

As for the models themselves, they tend to have problems such as excessive polygons or vertices. Check out this skeleton model;

Pretty cool, huh? I’ll tell you a secret; his face is the only part of his body that has a proper UV map. The rest of his body uses a generic white texture, and the UV map for that is chock full of splits and duplicate vertices. It looks like this if you lay out all of the triangles;

Optional Uniform

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DORMS!!!!!

The Who/Sherlock dorms

Harry Potter/Narnia/LOTR Dorms

Pirates/History dorms

disney/disney princess dorms(you can put more posters,etc)

Directioner dorms(but put more ireland flags and more pics of the boys)

My boss, putting on white grease paint and a red wig: Oh, of course! Let’s do it quickly so that you’ll want to keep working with us since you’re going to be making business decisions!

Me: I would sell you to satan for one corn chip and I’m allergic to corn but before you do this maybe you should call someone who is actually on our contact list for our customer and see if they’ve ever heard of this stranger.

My boss, looking through a selection of shoes that honk when you walk: Oh, but she said that it was very important that none of the employees know what was happening because they’re making staffing changes.

Me: As your lawyer I recommend that you just call a single one of our contacts and see if they’ve ever heard of her name.

My boss, shoving all of our technicians into a VW beetle: You’re not my lawyer.

Boss: On the bright side, it’s only the last five

“Hello I am [name] from [security firm] we’ve been hired to verify the security of the facility I need to see your computers.”

“Erm…I’ll have to verify that with my managers.”

“Congratulations, you have just passed the security verification.” [Scribbles on clipboard] “But in all seriousness I do need to verify your security so I need to see your computers.”