I did a search, but no joy

Flyby · #1 10-06-2008, 01:05 PM

Recently I viewed a few screen shots of BOB2 over at SimHq. It got me to wondering what the poly count would be on planes in SoW. Maybe this has been brought up elsewhere in this forum?

Foo'bar · #2 10-06-2008, 01:24 PM

Approx. up to 35.000 for single engine fighters and 50.000 for dual enginers external models. All editable mesh triangles. As far as I recall. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Thunderbolt56 · #3 10-06-2008, 01:56 PM

Is that supposed to be "35" or "35,000"?

Flyby · #4 10-06-2008, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Foo'bar

Approx. up to 35.000 for single engine fighters and 50.000 for dual enginers external models. All editable mesh triangles. As far as I recall. Correct me if I'm wrong.

thanks for the reply Foo'bar. I'm not familiar enough to know if those counts are considered high, or very high, or just average. How do they compare to the poly count of single engine places in IL2-1946, for example?
thanks!
Flyby out

Foo'bar · #5 10-06-2008, 03:42 PM

Flyby, that's about ten times more than in IL2.

Flyby · #6 10-06-2008, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Foo'bar

Flyby, that's about ten times more than in IL2.

I hope that high poly count makes aircraft look absolutely gorgeous before I blow them out of the sky!

Of course I'll be glad if SoW looks better than BoB2 (major props to that sim), with regard to planes, sky, weather, and terrain. We all have high hopes for a great looking sim, at least that of it which we can play at decent frame rates on our "instantly" outdated PCs.

Flyby out

WTE_Galway · #7 10-07-2008, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby

I hope that high poly count makes aircraft look absolutely gorgeous before I blow them out of the sky!

Of course I'll be glad if SoW looks better than BoB2 (major props to that sim), with regard to planes, sky, weather, and terrain. We all have high hopes for a great looking sim, at least that of it which we can play at decent frame rates on our "instantly" outdated PCs.

Flyby out

With that poly count you can model proper circles and even start to think about sags in the fabric, dents in the metal and even modeling individual small feature parts like engine fins and bolts.