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Question on polycounts

Geiger.Daniel

Geiger.Daniel

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Hi ppl.

As some of you might know: I'm building a scenery of Frankfurt/Main Intl. So far for my project. But now I'm in some kind of predicament. I have the chance to save around 30 (give or take 5) polys on pier a. But there is a catch:

- I'll have to remodel this part completely
- I'll have to realign the textures on the map (not really the big part)
- I'll have to do all the texture mapping for around 50 parts of this model again.

Well. My question is: Are these 30 polys enough to do all these things again and spend another 10 hours on the almost finished part of pier a?

Thanks a lot.

Greets
Daniel
 
Hi Daniel,

I agree with that. For 30 polygons I would not do all that trouble. Once you are able to put an extra zero behind it, it might become interesting. I don't know what the total polygon count is of your terminal, but I guess it will be a couple of hundred polygons.
 
Well, the part of which I'm talking has about 655 Polys (Excluding the newer, glassy part. It's only the old style thing with the Sky Line station on top of it).

Thanks, I wanted to hear that. :D
 
I'd say LOD is more important than 30 or so polys. If your LOD050 has 200 polys it shouldn't matter if the LOD100 has 3.000. :D ;)
 
Argh!

Well, that's it. I have to completely rebuild pier a. Damn the day, when I installed Google Earth and tested the measuring tool...

I miscalculated. Pier a is five metres to small.... :( Okay, I can use most of the textures without any changes, but I think I need to do the whole mapping thing again. :banghead: And by now, it was almost finished.

Or what about "Who cares?" and don't change anything (Except finishing it)?

Daniel
 
Hey - WHO CARES?!?!?!?

I would not give a damn for 5m! That's a few percent difference!
 
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Hi Daniel,

I guess it depends on the rest of your design if 5 meters is important. For my Schiphol scenery I would find that error much too big. This is because then the 3D object of the terminal would no longer match the data I have for the markings on the apron for example. But if you don't have other data to match with, I guess nobody will see a difference of 5 meters.
 
In my EDLM-scenery 5m would mean some 50% of the whole building. :D
But I guess at EDDF ist's about 5%? ;)

Couldn't you just rescale the object?
 
Well...rescaling. I think the textures won't look right then.

The building is 40 metres wide in reality and mine is 35. But you really don't see it. I even think the sleeker one looks better. *g* I'll go on with this and when all is textured (only a few to go, sky line station is almost finished. At this moment, I'm rendering the last texture for this), I'll have another look at it.
 
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