PolyCOunt

[SkataN]

Does anyone know what the approximate number of polygons a JK2 model can have?

[Vorax]

I think in Quake III based games it is around 2000, however this may not be true for JKII.

 

- Vorax

[Razyr Jordenal]

the numbers that keep coming up that i hear are

3000 for the character model

500 for the lightsaber

 

I'm not saying these are correct, but those are the figures i've heard

[SkataN]

ok thanks.

[Goreld]

Quake 3 Models fall around 800 polies (that's what Paul Steed aimed for) with LOD 1 and 2 levels of around 600 and 400 polies, respectively.

 

JK2 models, if around 3000 polies, have 3 or 4 LOD levels, if I heard correctly. Something along the lines of halving the poly count for each LOD, so the models would have 3000 polies, with 1500, 750, and 400-ish poly count LOD's. There looks to be a lot of unnecessary texture and model detail in JK2 (hence why if your video card has less than 64 megs of memory the game runs like crap), so I wouldn't worry about a poly count too much, unless you're modelling Jar Jar down to his toenails or something.

[Vorax]

Sorry, I will quailify what I said, 2000 isn't the norm in Q3, I , ment it's the max (I think). The norm is below 1000.

 

- Vorax