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Modular building parts poly count ¿?
Hello, I'm working in this game project where I have to create a modular house so we can build a whole village with them different parts. I've been searching, reading and viewing many tutorials and making offs and I guess I have a little idea about this method. The thing is that I'm trying to build not only the outside of… -
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It is a bit above 600 tris in my opinion, but everything depends on the other parameters too. Like neither its 10 or 600 or 5000 tris, it will be free if you use simple mat and acceptable texture res, but it will be super expensive if you add a material to it that use 2000 instructions, or if you add 8k textures. -
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My understanding is that anything under 600 triangles is basically free. It takes as long to set up the draw call as it does to actually draw the tris. So these pieces are an afterthought to modern day video cards. -
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Unless you're developping for mobile or you have an extremely expansive environment around this I wouldn't worry too much about polycount in 2015. Check out some wireframe on some recent *console* games like the Order 1886 for instance. Or Assassin Creed. Console are pieces of equipment that are obsolete on the day they… -
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Thanks a lot, you are really helping me here. -
Re: Modular building parts poly count ¿?
What you see there is not combined. its 3 4k maps... Its called atlas texture by the way, and it gives you less draw calls than individual meterials. So there are benefits of doing that, but actually it is not must needed on modern pcs. Its also harder to work with, especially if you are just starting with this stuff. It… -
Re: Modular building parts poly count ¿?
Hello and thanks guys for replying :) Obscura - What you say is that, if I manage to put all the textures of outer walls, inner walls, wood parts, doors, windows, etc... in a single texture file, let's say 4k, then I could use as many polies as I need to create the modular sections? -
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Thanks Mant1k0re, now I'll model more efficiently and yes, its a PC game project. Cheers :D -
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An another thing about the modular workflow... You should combine the modular parts in your modeling package, because of one reason. Then its one object to draw to the engine, and not many. I know you will loose the full freedom in the engine there, but you can work with the modular parts in the same way in your modeling… -
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Actually modern hardwares can draw multi-millions of polygons at the screen easily, especially if they are instanced objects, but it is still not recommended to completely rely on geo, because there are many other things in games other than geo. Like vertex transformations with bones, and textures, which are more expensive…
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