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Polycount Question

by Alexander Porter · in General Discussion · 09/08/2002 (10:17 pm) · 5 replies

Is the amount of polygons that are acceptable for any object relative to the engine power or computer speed/memory or both?
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Associate Logan Foster
perPixel Studios
#1
09/09/2002 (7:09 am)
I believe that it mostly has to do with the computer hardware, the engine does factor into the equation a little bit but mostly it's the machine.

Logan

Torque Owner Very Interactive Person
#2
09/09/2002 (7:40 am)
Specially with Torque... the engine can handle almost unlimited polycount. It will depend on the machine wether the framerate is acceptable or not.

Torque Owner Alexander Porter
#3
09/09/2002 (9:47 am)
ok so if one has a "top of the line computer" then a polygon increase may work. whats the current level per guns/players?

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#4
09/09/2002 (11:54 am)
I'd have thought it was both... better algorithms and so forth.

For example, Melv was able to tweak his fxfoliagereplicator with better algorithms and made it much more useable.

!!! George "blue" Lubinski
#5
09/09/2002 (11:15 pm)
For most games a player character is from 800-1500 for weapons i believe it is around 100-500 or so. this is just from the things i have worked on in the past. there is normally a cap for total polys rendered at one time. Your weapons can have a larger poly count if your levels have a small poly count and your player also has a small count. the exact amount that is a good count to be rendered at any given time im not positive of though. Depends on the hardware of the player mostly.