Number of polygons used on characters, vehicles and environments

[Heavenly_King]

ethomaz said:

PaladinLament said:

No, that's the ingame model.

Yeap... I watched the video... 30k triangles.

But this software count says 8,488.

 

Or Square Enix is saying bs or they just use a better model before the output to screen... the final model is ~8k triangles.

If you have played any FF game, you would have noticed that every character has 2 models.  1 is the one you play with (less polygons) and the other is for important events during the game (more polygons).  So I bet the 30k poly character is for real time cinematics.