Hey there. Can anyone make an educated estimate of what sort of poly budget an ogl program should use assuming development for a mid range pc eg p2-350 with a tnt2? I can''t really tell because my project hasn''t advanced enough to determine an optimal poly count. Any ideas? Thnx, Cel

well, my opinion is:

I testet my k-2 350, a voodoo2, 128 mb ram to a 100.000 single textured tri/s , so i would say you could do a 175.000 - 200.000

any against this "guess" =)

Hmm ... I guess a decent 30 fps with 5000 polys per frame ?

also, does this poly count include all polys in the scene, or just the frustum? does opengl do the frustum culling or do we have to perform this?

a2k

Hey, well I am not using a frustrum to calculate the world clipping, as I am doing a top - down type shooter

So essentially a scene would only consist of what is within my viewport at any particular time, there is no distance calculations.

I don''t think I will be needing anywhere near 100k of polys or whatever.

Cel...

im glad to hear thats a mid range computer
i do about in the region of 8000-10000 lit multitextured tris on the screen at once at 20-30fps on a simular machine , 10000 is about what q3 does

hey zedgeek, does this take into account frustum culling or the entire scene? is it 10000 per frame or 10000 per whole scene?

a2k

and the geek replies, its 10000 visable tris on the screen the others are culled

erm.. its prob more to do with the resolution that your drawing at.. afterall 1280x960 is twice as many pixels 2 fill as 640x480

-DA

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DarkAstaroth, what do you see if you look at this ASCII drawing??


The screen above is 1280*960, there are FOUR 640*480 screens in it!


Edited by - richardve on August 15, 2000 7:34:12 AM