Vehicles: HD in the Graphics menu: every craft rounded, panel-lined at ruler spacing and given paint, metal, glass and rubber, built once and placed on the GPU.
▶ Go therehdcraft-1-pods-off On the Emberline grid at 17:18 with Vehicles: HD off: the pods as they have always been, each part a coloured box.▶ Go therehdcraft-2-pods-on The same grid with Vehicles: HD on: every engine and cockpit rounded with smooth edges, panel lines across the engine pods at ruler spacing, gloss on the paint, the cockpit's rim catching the evening sky, and a soft shadow under each pod. The seven pods add 37,600 triangles that live on the GPU; per frame they are only placed.▶ Go therehdcraft-3-jet-off The hypersonic jet on the Ternary Gorge with HD off.▶ Go therehdcraft-4-jet-on The jet with HD on: rounded wings and fuselage, panel lines along the wings at ruler spacing, a highlight on the paint and the canopy reflecting the sky.▶ Go therehdcraft-5-heli-off The helicopter on the Ternary Gorge with HD off.▶ Go therehdcraft-6-heli-on The helicopter with HD on: the cabin rounded and panel-lined, the skids and tail boom bevelled, the paint glossy.▶ Go therehdcraft-7-tank-off The tank on the Ruler Hills with HD off.▶ Go therehdcraft-8-tank-on The tank with HD on: hull, turret and tracks rounded, panel lines on the track guards, metal with a sharper glint; the turret is its own placed part, so it still turns on its own.