He tried proving me wrong with Uncharted... Drakes Fortune information?

Next time, i need to remember to fully read stuff people send me

sorry i was backing you up lol i was having a go at the poster BigVern

I did

read that thread again that was for uncharted 1, and you even got the first number wrong, just to show how owned you got a full mesh model of drake here from uncharted 1

Uh, actaully that thread is just a general poly-count thread for all games.

Did you even read what he said?

Some Uncharted 2 lovin'

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthr...5&page=1&pp=15

Edit: and some relatively exact poly counts from Rich Diamant, lead character artist:

the wigs ranged a bit dependent on the character.. Drake's hair is around 4k tri's.. chloe's is around the same..

our lod's were originally hand modeled.. it was annoying.. we then went with an automatic PM solution which is what you see in game.. Drake however never gets LOD.. except for multiplayer.. but single player is the high resolution model the whole time.. same model that is in the cinematics.

the models ranged a bit as well.. drake was around 37k .. chloe was at 45k at her highest... each level of LOD was cut in half with 3 different levels. lowest being around 2500 poly's..

if any of you guys will be at GDC i'm doing a talk which will cover a lot of that..
sometimes I would texture the high poly before going onto the low poly.. however, this time around I tried a slightly different approach of sampling first, then texturing the low poly.. it works pretty well.. however, it makes it harder when big changes happen or when you need to show off the work.. I think next time around I will stick with doing everything on the high and transferring to the low..

Want to explain to me how those figures are for Uncharted 1 when he references multiplayer and Chloe which didn't show up until Uncharted 2?

Uh, actaully that thread is just a general poly-count thread for all games.

Did you even read what he said?

Some Uncharted 2 lovin'

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthr...5&page=1&pp=15

Edit: and some relatively exact poly counts from Rich Diamant, lead character artist:

the wigs ranged a bit dependent on the character.. Drake's hair is around 4k tri's.. chloe's is around the same..

our lod's were originally hand modeled.. it was annoying.. we then went with an automatic PM solution which is what you see in game.. Drake however never gets LOD.. except for multiplayer.. but single player is the high resolution model the whole time.. same model that is in the cinematics.

the models ranged a bit as well.. drake was around 37k .. chloe was at 45k at her highest... each level of LOD was cut in half with 3 different levels. lowest being around 2500 poly's..

if any of you guys will be at GDC i'm doing a talk which will cover a lot of that..
sometimes I would texture the high poly before going onto the low poly.. however, this time around I tried a slightly different approach of sampling first, then texturing the low poly.. it works pretty well.. however, it makes it harder when big changes happen or when you need to show off the work.. I think next time around I will stick with doing everything on the high and transferring to the low..

Want to explain to me how those figures are for Uncharted 1 when he references multiplayer and Chloe which didn't show up until Uncharted 2?

@Dahuman: *Sigh* I'll say it again. You can not say UC is more technically advanced than Alan Wake because their focus lies elsewhere. UC is linear corridor shooter with scripted events, extremely linear paths, and very bright artistic design for visual appeal. AW is a bit more open world, is much darker, focuses on atmosphere and mood, and uses LOTS of lights and shadows everywhere in dark environments for visual appeal. The lighting in AW is more advanced than any console game out there (don't gimme that KZ2 lighting crap with their pre-calculated light mapping), KZ2 probably has the best particle effects (smoke and the like) and UC2 probably has the best animations etc. There's no such thing as a game that's technically better than any other game on every front.

As for your video, it compares two things in exactly the same game.. You can not do that for games that have different goals and aspects. Don't throw "technical" words on me to appear smart. Won't work.

Now can we drop this?

“Our characters they typically have eighty thousand polygons in you know, one character, like the main character. In total- what we try to push through to the graphics chip at one point two million triangles that we try to draw every frame. We do a lot using the cell processor.”

Words of the LEAD PROGRAMMER, from a video on the Uncharted 2 disc.

And from your own link -
"Drake's hair is around 4k tri's.. chloe's is around the same"

It's likely the 2500 poly's is Elena's hair or something.