Comments on: Yes, but how many polygons?

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"Low Poly" - Game Artist Forums — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:43:18 +0000

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

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360 XNA game poly count limits - Game Artist Forums — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:59:38 +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

By: Behrooz 'Bezman' Shahriari

Behrooz 'Bezman' Shahriari — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:44:19 +0000

Thank you very much. I’m studying 3D animation, just now trying to work out the logistics of my final animation and this is really useful as I want to make something I can show off to games developers.

One request though – could you share more poly count of models that aren’t the lead character or ‘lead vehicle’? I’d love to know how many polygons are in a lightpole, telegraph pole or section of wire-mesh fencing.

In any case, thanks again for the info and everything.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:48:23 +0000

I’ll have a look at see what info I can dig up. Offhand I couldn’t really say.

By: tsne16487

tsne16487 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:02:59 +0000

Hi Rick, I was wondering if you could let me know what sort of poly limits were used for the in game cars in GTA IV, were they full modeled meshes, or were some parts instanced, with shared textures/geometry etc?

Cool site by the way, very helpful.

By: Coridium

Coridium — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:54:23 +0000

Thanks for the info mate!