Latest games & character poly count question

acitone

I recently got the opportunity to delve into games like Mass Effect 3, Saints Row the Third and Max Payne 3. These games have characters with poly counts that seem very high. How many polygons are most of today's games running per character?

ZacD

http://www.rsart.co.uk/2006/11/20/how-many-polygons-in-a-piece-of-string/

30k tris seems to be the high end average for 3rd person video game characters.

Ahoburg

From 10 to 80k usually. Depends on the budget. Also the number will be higher for next generation, i expect nothing less than 50-150 in couple of years.

acitone

Ahoburg wrote: »

From 10 to 80k usually. Depends on the budget. Also the number will be higher for next generation, i expect nothing less than 50-150 in couple of years.

Incredible! When I look at some of these 3rd person character models it's obvious that the count is really high.

can I figure how many tri's I have before exporting to a game engine? I use Max, which counts quads only I thought.

Thanks for that good bit of resource there ZacD!

gsokol

I use Max, which counts quads only I thought.

By default it only shows quads, but you can change that. In your viewport right click on the little plus sign in he upper left corner, and go to Configure, then go to the Statistics tab...and check Triangle Count.

Equanim

Don't forget that important characters often have much higher counts than minor ones because they're usually closer to the camera and the viewer spends more time looking at them. Averaging the poly counts of a main and minor character should give you a good middle ground for current gen.

eld

I'm not sure I can even fathom how much longer the string will be compared to the last generation, I'm figuring pretty long though!