next-gen environment polycount

jyandel

hello all, i have a quick question: i have modeled a high poly cathedral interior (think chartres cathedral on steroids), and and it ways in at close to a million polys. obviously, game engines won't support that! my question to you folks is: what would be a suitable poly count for an environment of this sort? Thanks!

jyandel

also, i forgot to ask--does using instanced geometry have any effect on the final polycount?

Neox

jyandel wrote: »

also, i forgot to ask--does using instanced geometry have any effect on the final polycount?

depends on the engine, can talk about the unreal 3 and yes it has an impact, for example, a normal level of ut3 has like 300k unique but 3mio instanced triangles