Prison Level. 16000 Polies.

[Ingulit]

I'm trying to make a prison level for Halo, but the poly count is just over 16000 in the main room alone. How much of a problem is this? It's three floors, if anybody is confused as to how I managed this.

[Jay2645]

I'm pretty sure the guidelines are somewhere around 5,000 for a gun, 10,000 for a vehicle, and 100,000 for a map, poly-wise.

[Skyline]

I'm pretty sure the guidelines are somewhere around 5,000 for a gun, 10,000 for a vehicle, and 100,000 for a map, poly-wise.

Lol, that's way off.

[Ingulit]

I'm pretty sure the guidelines are somewhere around 5,000 for a gun, 10,000 for a vehicle, and 100,000 for a map, poly-wise.

WHOA, are you serious?! That's huge! Is that for the /entire/ map, with portaling? Because, as it stands, I've got all 16000 polies on-screen at once :S

Lol, that's way off.

QFT

I was thinking to myself, what the hell...?

[Jay2645]

Lol, that's way off.

Blame the tuts I learned off of.
Maybe it's something more like 50,000, I'm not sure.

[Ki11a_FTW]

Blame the tuts I learned off of.
Maybe it's something more like 50,000, I'm not sure.

No its more then that, my freind combinded the 2 Exterior Bsps of c10 together, and it compiled

[Ingulit]

Blame the tuts I learned off of.
Maybe it's something more like 50,000, I'm not sure.

Still, if that's correct, then I'm in the clear... All I know is that the map lags Wings atm, though that could just be because of the way Wings renders its models. I AM planning to have some more rooms outside the basic jail, but I wanted to see if this'd work first.

I'm kinda excited, now... I thought I'd have to chop off another floor or something (technically, it's supposed to be four floors, but I found that a tad excessive).

No its more then that, my freind combinded the 2 Exterior Bsps of c10 together, and it compiled

How well did it run in-game? I'm trying to make sure that my map will run smoothly; remember, all 16000 are on-screen AT ONCE. Will that not cause problems?

[Mass]

They advise you 10,000 polies, but you can go way over that.

[Bastinka]

Not really a poly limit, as long as good portalling is made.

[PenGuin1362]

weapons now a days can be anywhere between 3.5k to 8k triangles. vehicles can be up to 8ish. levels can be crazy. as long as proper portaling is applied. i have made a map with 30,000 tris and it ran perfectly fine without portals. so keep goin then portal it. should come out fine.