Polygon count

[a-lamer]

Hello there, not sure if this has been asked or answered yet.

Can you tell us approximately how many polygons there will be per soldier / tank etc? Since there is no pictures available yet, this would atleast give us a hint what to expect smile.gif

[Wicky]

Originally posted by Battlefront.com:
Dan just made a wheeled vehicle that has more polies in one wheel than was in a CMBO tank :D

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Steve

[a-lamer]

Ok guess there is plenty of polygons then :D

This waiting for first screenies from the game is killing me. 2 weeks time has never felt this long before :(

[Kwazydog]

Lamer, I cant give you any solid figures until we get a little further down the track but I can give you some estimates.

From my perspective Im hoping we may be able to spend around say, 2000-3000 on a soldier, 300-500 on his weapon and maybe 5000-8000 on a vehicle. Im the 3D Modeller though and we always like to get as many pollies as we can, hehe...its not impossible that Chalres could turn around and say okay, time to cut them back. Testing thus far look promising but time will tell.

Just to put those figures in perspect CMBO had about 150-350 pollies per vehicle and CMAK ended up with about 600-700 on new vehicles for that game. Each soldier in CMAK, as a guess, was probably about 120 each (these models were basically hardcoded so I cant say for sure).

Dan

[ August 29, 2005, 02:13 AM: Message edited by: KwazyDog ]

[Soddball]

Holy smokes.

[Salkin]

Sounds cool, and good to see you an the forums again KwazyDog. I'm guessing it's busy in Battlefronts little workshop these days :D .

//Salkin

[Kwazydog]

Hehe, thanks Salkin! Yes, things have been very busy indeed and have been for quite some time for me...for my point of view Ive had a considerable amount of new software and techniques to learn from the old CMx1 days.

All told though I think you guys should be very happy with what we can do visually in the new engine...I know I am smile.gif

Dan

[GreenAsJade]

Any chance of proper transparency for trees?

[Kwazydog]

Trees should be 3D now, with twigs, branches, roots and leaves all being modelled using various methods...again time will tell just what we can do here after more solid testing smile.gif .

Dan

[ August 29, 2005, 04:34 AM: Message edited by: KwazyDog ]

[General Bolt]

Originally posted by KwazyDog:
Lamer, I cant give you any solid figures until we get a little further down the track but I can give you some estimates.

From my perspective Im hoping we may be able to spend around say, 2000-3000 on a soldier, 300-500 on his weapon and maybe 5000-8000 on a vehicle. Im the 3D Modeller though and we always like to get as many pollies as we can, hehe...its not impossible that Chalres could turn around and say okay, time to cut them back. Testing thus far look promising but time will tell.

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Dan Now we know the next version is loaded with eye candy. Thanks for the great improvements.

[Scipio]

Originally posted by Salkin:
[QB] Sounds cool...No, sounds like 'I need a new PC'...

I wonder what is in the pipeline for grass...

[Kana]

Originally posted by KwazyDog:
From my perspective Im hoping we may be able to spend around say, 2000-3000 on a soldier, 300-500 on his weapon and maybe 5000-8000 on a vehicle. Im the 3D Modeller though and we always like to get as many pollies as we can, hehe...its not impossible that Chalres could turn around and say okay, time to cut them back. Testing thus far look promising but time will tell.
Wow and what kind of supercomputer are we going to need to run that...Those are a lot of polys...

Kana

[Other Means]

Originally posted by Scipio:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Salkin:
[QB] Sounds cool...No, sounds like 'I need a new PC'...

I wonder what is in the pipeline for grass... </font>[/QUOTE]Cutting down to save for a PC?

[raz_atoth]

Right!What kind of computer configuration are we supposed to have to play the game?

[Pzman]

Looks like a 128Mb Video Card is going to be the minimum for CMx2.

[Gordon]

I'm definitely going to have to start positioning my arguments with my accountant (wife) regarding the new PC that I'm going to need. :eek:

[SgtMuhammed]

CM has taken over as my newest $2045 game. It used to be "Wing Commander" that would make me buy a new PC everytime a new game came out.

Good thing PC prices have gone down so much.

[Battlefront.com]

In May I bought a mid level Dell. I'm guessing this will be a middle of the road system for CMx2. I can't remember how much it was, but I want to say around $1000. Looks like you can buy an even better system from Dell for less these days.


Here are the specs of what I bought:

Dell Dimension 4700 Series
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 520 w/HT Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)

Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

Memory
512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (2x256M)

Monitor
No Monitor

Video Cards
128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X300 SE

Hard Drive
80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices
No Floppy Drive Included

Network Interface
Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet

Modem
56K PCI Data Fax Modem

CD or DVD Drive
Single Drive: 48x CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive

Sound Card
Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio

Speakers
No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)

Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed)
No Productivity Suite - Corel WordPerfect® word processor only

Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options
1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr Technical Support

Video Editing
IEEE 1394 Adapter

[junk2drive]

So, no fog for you?

[Bartokomus]

those are rather modest specs on the Dell; good to see for the people with older rigs.

[Kanonier Reichmann]

What Steve failed to mention was that the Dell computer purchase was for his son to run Medal of Honour on. His computer is a liquid cooled 5 GHz Pentium with 2 Gig of super DDR RAM, 200 Gbyte HDD with the very latest NVidia video card packing 512Mb of video RAM!

;)

Regards

Jim R.

[Andreas]

And CMx2 runs sosoish on it.

[Battlefront.com]

I have a son? Keeripes! Do I have to pay child support to the "lucky" unwed mother? And is she hot? I'm sure I thought so, since I must have been drinking heavily since I don't remember spawning :D

Steve

[Scheer]

Originally posted by junk2drive:
So, no fog for you? That was funny ... :D :D