HL2 had a skeletial animation system, yes, with little things like jaw bone movement controlled by the digitized speech to simulate, well mouth movement during talking, and simple inverse kinematic (aim constrain) to always look at the player in cutscenes.
"Yes, but how many polygons?" An artist blog entry with interesting numbers
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[Talking on Uncharted]
To Rich or an another ND guy,
Could you please give me some numbers about the characters' polygons (in realtime, not the renders)? I think that a model like Drake is using about 30k. Am I wrong?
I'm speaking about characters like Drake or others using a high amount of polygons and even the ''low-detailed'' ones (pirates, etc) of course
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To Rich or an another ND guy,
Could you please give me some numbers about the characters' polygons (in realtime, not the renders)? I think that a model like Drake is using about 30k. Am I wrong?
I'm speaking about characters like Drake or others using a high amount of polygons and even the ''low-detailed'' ones (pirates, etc) of course
.I hope we get poly-count for this faces, would be nice to know:
http://www.crysis-online.com/Media/Screenshots/Screenshots/Render-01.jpg
http://www.crysis-online.com/Media/Screenshots/Screenshots/Render-02.jpg
http://www.crysis-online.com/Media/Screenshots/Screenshots/Render-01.jpg
http://www.crysis-online.com/Media/Screenshots/Screenshots/Render-02.jpg
silentbob343
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The weapons have a fair number of polys or so it seems looking at screen shots.
Those are from 2005, the ones shown in Crysis this year has far more polygons on the faces. The top of the head is way smoother etc! :smile:
the main characters are around 20-30k per character depending on the complexity. I think Drake is around 30.. i dont have the numbers in front of me.
the enemies/pirates are around 12-15k.
we are trying to hide as much as we can with normal maps so the polys really dont show. Hopefully that'll come through in game!
-Rich
the enemies/pirates are around 12-15k.
we are trying to hide as much as we can with normal maps so the polys really dont show. Hopefully that'll come through in game!
-Rich
Here is some screengrabs from the exosceleton model without a mask.
If the entire character has -lets say- 12.000 polys his head must be at least 5.000 polys IMO.
I don't know, my estimation was around 4-5000...
It may not have hairs but it has teeth and some realistic facial animations.
I find it impressive anyway.
Because he's an honoury one - being a Naughty Dog developer. Thanks for the insight Rich.
A lot of the images just posted look, to me, to be stuck in "uncanny valley". Huge numbers of polygons don't always help.
Betanumerical
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Hehe!
I was not clear in my post but I was talking about the exo suit in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The models in Crysis definitely has way more polygons without taking into account the polygons for the weapons. :smile: