I’ve recently completed modeling an assault rifle for my upcoming FPS game but the problem is the rifle has 12,931 triangles.
Is that a decent number for a gun or will it reduce performance and memory? And what is a good number of tris for a gun? (realism)
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I don’t believe that many is needed but it’s your choice
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Personally I think it is a lot of triangles. Roblox also have the 10k triangles limit.
You would then need to split it up. But that’s what I mainly do with my gun models.
As long as it works out for you. Then it should be no problem.
Keep up your great work!
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Realistically, the gun model should probably have the mag split off anyway, so you can animate reloads. But looking at the gun the mag looks like it doesn’t have 3k triangles. I imagine OP will probably have to reduce the fidelity of the porting holes and similar.
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Try as less as possible!
But it also depends what are you trying to achieve.
If you make a third person shooter then that model would be too laggy and many details will not be even seen by players.
If you’re making a first person shooter then a decent quality model would be recommended because the weapon will be occupying a lot of screen space.
If you’re making a fps then I also recommend making a low poly version of it too because enemies or teammates will not need the high ones and it will save a lot of performance.
I always ask myself these 2 questions before making a model:
- how small the model is? (for third person shooters they would be quite small.)
- how many models will be shown (for a battle royale game with hundreds of fighters many high quality models wouldn’t be recommended.)
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Hi, it looks like you are trying to make the gun smooth by adding a lot of tris.I advice to reduce the amout of tris and just make the whole gun smooth and setting it to a limit that you find good .
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