Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airplane model

[Alex P. <ale...@ie...>]

It should be possible to do a model that looks reasonable from 100 m away
in a couple dozen polygons or about a hundred triangles.  This isn't good
enough for flight following (sic) but would be fine for littering airports
and conflict traffic in multiplayer situations (weekends skies for example).

> Erik Hofman writes:
> > Most of the models have about 2500 triangles ...
> > It looks a more sophisticated task than you might think.
> 
> For FlightGear, we'd really like to keep the number of triangles much
> lower than that if possible ... or have a lower detailed version and a
> higher detailed version so you can save polygons if you are viewing
> the model from a distance or if you have several of them parked at an
> airport.
> 
> That's the real trick here, and what makes it so hard, is to come up
> with good looking models that don't consume a lot of polygons.  That's
> where the experience and talent comes into play.  This stuff isn't
> easy to do.