[mnftg64]

is there a strict rule on the number of faces on a fighter. I read that you should stay blow 500, but will it simply not work if it has more?

[Taristin]

It may work... but the gameplay will be severly hamperred with bad Framerates...

[mnftg64]

ok, one last question, is that for fighters, or fighters and capital ships also

[Galemp]

Capital ship polycounts can go into the thousands, for all subobjects, but that's acceptable because you don't see them in great numbers. Remember that there are always lots of fighters and bombers around, so if you have two wings of 1200 poly fighters that's 100,000 polygons. Not so good for an older engine.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
It may work... but the gameplay will be severly hamperred with bad Framerates...

most OTT fighters have around 800 polys, and that changed nothing about the framerate ( on a athlon 900 and an old radeon 7200... ). But OTT dropped in framerate when I put the high res explosions anis, that's for sure ( that's why they were not default ).
So to sum up, 800 polys will do nothing coz, heh, that's what LODs are for, after all.

[KARMA]

around 760-800 polys max per subobject in original fs2, around (iirc) 3000 in fs2open, 1000 polys x a fighter is acceptable in my opinion (if correctly LODed), but it's up to you

[Flipside]

At least until HT&L comes in for FS_Open

Flipside