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10th Aug 2010 at 10:27 AM
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Any hair that is 25k polys and not in the shape of a triumphant pterodactyl or something is absolutely obscene. The creator should probably be slapped for it. Maybe ridiculed, just a little, too.
For TS2, 3000 polys is about the upper limit for everyday use, straight, or simple hair - 6000 for something really curly/complicated/weird.
Roughly doubled for TS3. 6000 is about as much as you'd want for a regular hair, maybe 9k-12k for something really curly or strange.
I can't see there being any excuse for a 25k poly hair except inexperience at meshing/laziness/the rather incorrect idea that more polys automatically equals better. Which it doesn't.
If you download higher poly hairs, you need to have a pretty strong PC - mainly your graphics card. You'd also want to use them sparingly - try to remember which are higher poly and not use them on every sim.
Game Help:System Specswiki - that should tell you your card. If you tell us what you have, we can tell you whether it sucks or not.