Polygon Count Question

[Moedry]

"We're targeting around 2000 polygons for our viewmodels (which of course do not LOD) including hands. Some current examples (final values are likely to be different):"

Stupid question, but...
...When they say 2000 polygons, do they mean tri's or poly's
I'm just making sure, because if its tri's i don't want to have my model be 2000 polys and 3500 tri's or anything like that.. Thanks!

 

[jmjneary]

im pretty sure in todays game engines that polys dont matter much and people sometimes go to old habbits anc call tris polys but you can never know

 

[StardogChampion]

I always take it that they mean tris when they say polys. So if they say it's 2000 polys, I wouldn't expect the model to be 4000 tris.

Like jmjneary said, it's more all the bumpmaps/specular/normal maps etc etc that kill your performance rather than the amount of polys in a scene. But don't go crazy anyway.