Hey everyone .
Just wondering something .
If i make your average house about 1000 polygons and i want to make a crowded city how many polygons could Esenthel handle on screen on your relativly new computer...

I am making some body meshes a.t.m. and without the hands or facual features i guess a bodt could count up to 1800/2000 polygons
I used a smooth mesh in 3dsmax on a basic model than edit it further in ZBrush to create a displacement map.. so if this works out i could get quite some detail with little poly's.

Here is an example
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Is that good enough? or should i really tune down the models... honestly.. i don't kow what is the usual poly rate for a character these days

you can easily add more polys, it looks too blocky, the engine is very optimised for vertex/poly count.
the concepts are nice though.

well the blocky model is a base model..
From there i make edgeloops to than add nurb subdivisions on 1 iteration.
Than the polycount rises really fast.

Then the rest of the blocky part should be covered with a displacement mapping and normal mapping to reduce the GPU load for lets say villages and crowds.

But i need a baseline to go from...
I could make 100 models of characters and all of them have 3000 polygons.. than when the am loads it all goed to shit because ihave too many.
So i was kind of hoping you have established some sort of baseline to keep it within the reach of hardware and engine.

there is no strict rule for amount of poly because its dependent from too many things.
you need to test it manually depending on your needs.