Re: [Flightgear-devel] Polygon count

[leee <le...@sp...>]

On Friday 16 February 2007 02:39, Stewart Andreason wrote:
> leee wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 February 2007 21:45, Berndt, Jon S wrote:
> >> What's a realistic upper limit for polygon count now for an aircraft
> >> model? 5000? 10000? 25000?
> >>
> >> What's definitely "out"?
> >>
> >> Jon
> >
> > AFAIK, current top-end vid cards can handle several million textured
> > polys (typically between 1 - 3 M)
> >
> > For a single model - don't worry too much, for n models as few as
> > possible.
> >
> > LeeE
>
> Well, that's interesting.
>
> Lee, have you ever gotten a SegFault from a large .ac file?
> I don't think I ever got any reply to my gdb backtrace I posted Jan.26, so
> I still am interested in knowing about upper limits on polygon counts.
>
> Stewart

I've never seen that but I think that Fred B may have answered your question.

LeeE