Best Triangle Count For Map

[grnvez (graves)]

I’m currently a developer for a basketball game and we’re looking for better ways to optimize.

Obviously using meshes helps a lot, but what is a decent triangle count for a somewhat detailed map, or rather what is too many triangles in terms of optimization?

[NotRapidV (Rapid)]

Honestly, it depends. For triangles, try following this:

How many Polygons(Triangles) should i have on my models?

Well, you have to keep in mind that the poly count generally refers to the triangle + vertice count first of all. The vert count impacts performance more than the tri count does, but generally you shouldn’t worry too much about the exact values of one or the other as they tend to go hand-in-hand. As you want to cater things more towards performance, I’d recommend keeping in the 3k-4k tri range as that’s traditionally the tri count in existing roblox assets such as hats if I recall. That’s a goo…

For other client-sided optimizations, you can try and reduce the amount of draw calls. You can view draw calls by pressing Shift + F2 and looking under “draw (scene)”, typically. You can use LODs and Streaming to help as well.