Poly Count?

[Projectkmo]

while not an exact anwser... I'd look at

www.polycount.com

or

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/

should take you to the same place though


Check out all the Models and their descriptions etc... there will be info on their individual Polycounts etc... theres Sections for UT2k3...JK...Quake and more etc... it might give you an idea as to the Min and Max usd in the various games.... or in the Models people make. Also Sign up for the Forums there too. Great info there aswell.

[CG_TROG]

Just wanna say thanks for your reply, as it is much appreciated. I'll check out those sites right away. Thanks again.:thumbsup:

[boywonder]

It depends much on what is your target computer. I am creating a game (using DirectX7) and our benhmarker says that one gig machine with decent video card could show 40 characters (700 poly each) pretty well. So if the poly count is about 3000 I roughly could say that then there could be like 10 characters simultaneously on screen.

Very rough estimation, but hopefully this gives you some aid.

[fproto]

:twisted:

hello.

this is also my first post, but blah anyways.

i think a very hard technique to master is to

have the proper number of polygons in all

areas of the mesh. i'm a beginner in

3ds max, but i've modelled in free software

since i was 10 :p.

so right now i'm having trouble trying to

figure out which part of my model needs

more polygons to look better. my current

polycount is 890. i've seen superrealistic

models with only 670 polygons.

no matter how hard i try, it seems impossible

to make my model realistic. what details or

features should i relinquish? what features

should i add?

any help is highly appreciated :D.

thanks in advance :wavey:.

[ceql]

Remember that much of the detail in low-poly models comes from the texturing... id software have Kenneth Scott who is one of the best texture artists in the industry, and for Q3a, they had Paul Steed who was an extremely efficient low-poly modeler.

Even most the detail in the new Doom is faked via textures with their new tech :D (Although the polycount is probably quite high, too)

[fproto]

i just have no idea whether i need fingers or not

for the main character of my rpg ... :shrug:

i've reduced the polycount to 866, and the fingers

look great, but i just have no idea whether it makes

a difference without fingers... :shrug:

...

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

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