Reality Factory

For the average computer ( 512mb ram for the sake of argument) what would the maximum number of polygons be for a player/pawn? I aquired a 10,000 poly model and stripped it down to 8,000. Should I do more?

definetely! in my game I'm trying to put models with not more than 2000 polys.That sometimes sucks,because I got really cool modes (ofcourse I haven't made the mmyself) and I really hete to reduce the poltygons.

Also depends on the size of your levels, the quantity of things you put in it, also how many models are going to appear in a same level with how many polys. Maybe have a 6000 poly model (I wouldn't have more than 6000 even on good computers) and compensate with very low poly enemies or not many normal poly enemies, etc...

I think, RF can charge until 10.000= Player´s polys+ Level polys. But you must think in the game´s perfomance.

Thanks for the advice. I lost the model (when my computer got bombarded with evil trojan viruses, so I had to erase the hard drive and start from scratch), so that will allow me to start working on a really cool game (and maybe stop goofing around).