Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY - For 4.11

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Originally Posted by Asheshouse

But the stock model, HMS King George V BB has 20016 polys for the LOD0.

and the stock model, HMS Illustrious CV has a LOD0 of 16815 polys.

Well, I have different models then.

-- So would it not be reasonable for modellers to take these as a guide rather than be limited to 8000 for a capital ship?

Well... most of the ship models (and especially higher poly ones) came with Pacific Fighters and were 3rd party work. So I suppose, the 3rd party people didn't care to orientate on the given limits and the models were nethertheless pressed into the game with one eye shut (due to the well known time and money problems, that Luthier had with PF). But thats just a theory of mine.
As well it could be, that with Pf the limits were raised - without me knowing about it.
However, you are right, current work should orientate on the given and I see no problem with higher polycount for big warships/battleships, as they rarly come in dozens.

However... it must be reasonable! And if you think about it, its expectable, that the King George V is rather high poly, with all the masses of tiny anti-aircraft weapons on deck (the AA guns on the after deck alone are already ~1000 tris). Marat on the other side is 'naked' and can live with a third of the polycount.

In the work I have been doing I have used HMS KGV as the principal guide to model size and structure with the result:

HMS Warspite BB - LOD0 15998 polys
RM Caio Duilio BB - LOD0 19386 polys

While Warspite is still ok, being the same category as KG-V, the Caio Dulio is IMHO over the edge.
The trick is, not to look for the maximum limit, but for the average values - these to orientate on.

See here the numbers of a few of the bigger stock ships (only LoD00, NULL mesh deleted) - in order of polycount decreasing:

King George V. - 15867 tris


Illustrious - 11444 tris


Tirpitz - 8020 tris (!)


Kent - 5961 tris


Niobe - 4080 tris


Marat - 3845 tris


Illmarinen - 3036 tris


Note, how the rather small destroyer is higher on polycount than the battleship Marat. As I said, its depending on size and complexity, if its really reasonable.