Want to model

[mopskind]

btw, does the max polycount for vehicles include the Col0,Col1 and Col2 or only the visible mesh? I hope its only the visible mesh otherwise i could dump all the stuff i made

[Knitschi]

I think it shows the polycount of the selected object.

[mopskind]

Ah you misunderstand me there. I want to know ifof the max Polycount for the bf2 engine (8000 for vehicles?) is counted by all the collision meshes or is it only the visible ingame mesh?

[azreal]

No, it's counted for the lod0. However, the collision and lod models have their own polycounts as well.

[Raziel]

@Knitschi: Thanks for the tip! Am currently following the Me109 tutorial posted in the other thread as I need to 'unlearn' Blender and start learning 3dsMax!

[Knitschi]

@Knitschi: Thanks for the tip! Am currently following the Me109 tutorial posted in the other thread as I need to 'unlearn' Blender and start learning 3dsMax!

Yeah... Don't mix up left and right mouse button 

[Devilman]

I want to know ifof the max Polycount for the bf2 engine (8000 for vehicles?)

These so called polycount limits for BF2,were mentioned over 5 years ago,for 5 year old PC's,as a very safe guideline,and nowadays you can run much much higher polys on objects without any noticeable loss in performance

74 867 poly Apache Longbow runs perfectly ingame,and looks 

[Natty]

in SP yea....  the dice apache has 9000+ tris which is recommended amount for a helicopter for this game.

The polycounts recommendations are still valid, no matter how old the game is.

[Tim270]

Yeah try putting 4 of those on each team then have 64 guys running around on-line (including low settings) then say it runs fine.

Also looks like there are no lods?

[sn00x]

actually, why dont we test this theory out? instead of jumping to conclusions

unless its been tried, NONE of you know..

[azreal]

It's not a question of poly counts Sn00x. I know guys over at BF2editor.org that have exported objects with poly counts in the 5-figures area (ie. 10,000 polies). It's more a matter of what hardware the server and client(s) are running.

[FatJoe]

I guess I could run a game with some high poly objects. But in order to not exclude everyone that aren't running a new awesome computer, it's preferable to stick to the default poly count. A 75000 polygon chopper might be good for a cg movie, but is just bad optimization for a comper game. It doesn't need to have the bolts and screws modeled. Much rather use the high poly model to bake a normal map on a optimized low poly model and use that in game.

[Knitschi]

As a view distance Nazi I recommend investing the computational power into increased view distances rather than in more local detail. This at least has an influence on the gameplay.

[Neighbor Kid]

dam it devilman just make stuff for Fh already   

[sn00x]

As a view distance Nazi I recommend investing the computational power into increased view distances rather than in more local detail. This at least has an influence on the gameplay.

gotta agree here, i Never cared for all this little details here and there