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A Few Words on Polys and Portfolios — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:25:04 +0000

[...] recommend you read his answer to the “How many polys in my game” question and also his list of poly counts for characters in major games from the last 10 years. Cancel [...]

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By: ‘Yes, but how many polygons?’ « me blog

‘Yes, but how many polygons?’ « me blog — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:23:49 +0000

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By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:58 +0000

As far as I know, all of these are triangle counts.

A poly is not a quad, a poly can have 3, 4, 5, 6…20 sides, but generally when poly is used in the word polycount it’s taken to mean tris.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:27:59 +0000

Thanks for posting this info, its really very awesome to know.
I was wondering though, these are all labeled “polys”, so does that mean its double the tris? For example, the original Quake models were 200 polys, does this mean 200 quads, so 400 tris?

Thanks again!

By: Dan Frederiksen

Dan Frederiksen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:48:51 +0000

I was curious where the data was from too.

I’ve played GT5 prologue and the cars and menu scenes are very impressive. I do some 3d rendering, small time d3d coding and generally interested in photorealism and I heard it suggested that the models could be extracted from the game into an editor. do you know how that could be done rick? and do you know if the geometry would be compatible with renderings or are they using some cryptic displacement/normal mapping to give the smooth surfaces so the apparent geometry isn’t really there.

thanks