2013-03-08, 02:18 AM
I did some research recently to find the average polygon count for game models and it seems the industry norm is around 10 to 15 thousand polys for a player character an 7 thousand for enemies. That's on mid-grade PC hardware with a standard rat-in-a-maze type linear area. Larger open gameplay areas can use about the same but have 2-4 LOD layers (level of detail). The cap is considerably lower for consoles (360 etc) and way lower for handhelds/phones. Of course other processing like shadows/textures make a huge difference so that's just a ballpark. Anyways, 2K for your head seems like its reasonable even for gaming.
Did a quick translation for the Copypath plugin. It goes in "Plugins/Object" and shows up at the bottom of the (who would have guessed) "Object" menu in Metasequoia. I think it could be good for making pine trees by using "taper+rotate" and copying a branch layer up a line where the trunk goes.
Did a quick translation for the Copypath plugin. It goes in "Plugins/Object" and shows up at the bottom of the (who would have guessed) "Object" menu in Metasequoia. I think it could be good for making pine trees by using "taper+rotate" and copying a branch layer up a line where the trunk goes.