shhhhh, i knew that :pOriginally posted by tweetytunes
Thats not teck correct. A poly is any surface with a normal
Only game engines counts tris as polys. Just look at Zbrush/mudbox - that also counts quads as polys
this doesn't make much sense. the more polys you have the more detail you could add.I just don't want to get to the point of having so many polys I can't add anything more, or add any more detail.
i know this. what i mean to say is that if you are a good modeller you would not have to watch your poly count as you would only work at a level of detail that is manageable.Also from what I've read online and in books it's good practice to keep your poly count low and still get a smooth, clean model. I could be wrong but it doesn't seem to make much sense having a billion polys if you can get the same results from one with far less.
my poly count is more or less the same as yours now, and i've smoothed it.Originally posted by Dango77
All crits are welcome Hammer so thanks for giving your honest opinion.
I'm not sure about the whole poly count issue, I'm just trying to keep it down at this early stage so later on it won't become a problem if I want to add more.
I'm not smoothing it to render and then undoing, that would be pointless as I'd have a bit of a problem when I got to the final stages and my computer couldn't handle it!
Why exactly would I do that?!
i guess if you are doing close ups its not wasted.Originally posted by Dango77
Also, I don't believe there is such a thing as wasted detail, this model isn't just for this comp, no models are, it'll be used for other things in the future that will involve close ups.
True enough if you are doing it for a client,etc, but if you are like me you aren't doing it just for the shot, your doing it because it has to be done!Originally posted by hammer.horror
the guy who taught me maya always said that he would have a laugh at juniors who would model every screw and whatnot for a shot that didn't require it.
I'm really not too sure either Stwert, I guess really as long as your pc can handle it, it's not overly important for still shots like this, but I was just interested as to how say a game company or film company would count them, for speed of animation etc.Originally posted by stwert
About the tris versus faces poly count thing, I don't know anything about the technical rules about counting, but if you have only quads and maybe some tris, you're only going to have maximum twice as many tris as faces. Does it make a big difference in your counting? I would think the poly count would be more a question of orders of magnitude (100 000s vs millions etc).
