Model polycount question (pics inside)

[ssandulak]

Okay I'm in need of some assistance from some XSI modelers. I modeled this Inuyasha in XSI and it has 2 numbers: 6186 triangles, or 3431 polygons. Now I'm what I'm wondering is...if I convert this to triangles it shoots up the polygons to the same number as the triangles? Now I'm wondering how this would work...I saw the numbers used for Half-life 2, in polygons...but I'm wondering how it was measured...is there another program that reads the polies? I'm very confused...anyways...heres some pics:

head wireframe
full body wire
side
front
3/4
hand detail (sleeve pulled back)
hand shot 2

 

[mindless_moder]

yeah ive wondered about that myself the polycounts given by valve are in polygons but hte engine goes by the tri count so what do we follow :S lol.
i think 3431 is pretty good for a polycount tho . if ur working in poly mode the poly coutn and tri count should be fairly accurate.
btw skinning that model with those long huge sleeves is going to be helll.

 

[simon]

6186 triangles, or 3431 polygons.


you need to work in triangles, games calculate triangles, not poly's
and 6186 is a bit much for a HL2 character/vehicle, whatever it is imHo

i myself try to stay under 5000 for just about everything


*edit*
and why in this picture:

http://img294.echo.cx/img294/8785/quarterwire5kz.png

did you model the inside of the sleeves ? just make it a 2-sided material, lots of things on the model can be edited for a lot less triangles

 

[ssandulak]

a 2 sided material? but the arm doesn't go right into the body, wouldn't you be able to see through the model then? Heres an update on the model:

3/4 shot
3/4 wire shot
wire shot 2
wire shot 3

It was 6182 triangles, I've gotten it down to 5322. Is that too high still ya think? For multiplayer so if...16 of these were running around a map, would it kill the game? Crits/comments plz

 

[simon]

you can delete the poly's of the inside of the sleeve and the border, and in the .qc file make it 2 sided

 

[ssandulak]

.qc file? is that when its compiled or something? 5180 triangles now, won't the dismembered arm seem odd when you look up sleeve in-game? Or will you notice it?

 

[simon]

thats the file to import the model into HL2, there is a tutorial made from our coder on our forums www.off-limits.be marked [TUTORIAL] .. very easy to spot