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Quality Guideline: Meshes - Polygon Count
Appears in: Body Shop - All, Build Mode, Buy Mode, Foods, and Game Mods
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General Guidelines
When meshing, polycounts are an incredibly important thing to keep in mind! If not done properly, it could lead to the game crashing a lot and lagging as well! That's why you don't want to go too high when it comes to the polycount, despite the mesh maybe being an alpha mesh or maxis match.
Listing polycounts In order to evaluate the polycounts, we need to know what they are! See Polygon count info for details.
Listing polycounts
In order to evaluate the polycounts, we need to know what they are! See Polygon count info for details.
Section Guidelines, apply in addition to the above General ones.
Build Mode
The following polygon count limits apply:
Regarding LODs for Objects:
If your LOD0 is around 500 polygons, then you may use your highest LOD for medium and low. If it is higher than 500, then we strongly recommend using lower polygon meshes for LOD1 etc.
Buy Mode
The Sims 4 Guidelines, apply in addition to the above General ones.
Body Shop - All
The sims 4 uses "LODs" (levels of detail). You might have seen the word before in either in TSRW, Sims4Studio or a tutorial, but it's important to have it so the polycounts are around an acceptable level. You want to make sure that the medium level is half of the high level's polycount and the same for the low level being half of the medium level's polycount.
Note: The Sims 4 has a limit with Create-a-Sim outfits (not hair) where items above 15k polygons end up looking corrupted!
The Sims 3 Guidelines, apply in addition to the above General ones.
The sims 3 uses "LODs" (levels of detail). You might have seen the word before in either in TSRW or a tutorial, but it's important to have it so the polycounts are around an acceptable level. You want to make sure that the medium level is half of the high level's polycount and the same for the low level being half of the medium level's polycount.
The Sims 2 Guidelines, apply in addition to the above General ones.
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Possible Assessments
The polycount seems to be a tad too high for the type of CASpart that it is supposed to be. It could take a bit of work to get this back to an acceptable level but it certainly will be worth it in the end as it will prevent downloaders from having lagging issues or game crashes. :)
Please check out the tutorial section if you're not entirely sure what the acceptable polycount for your type of mesh would be! It's always fine to ask for feedback in the moderation thread of course.
It seems that the LODs (levels of detail) are almost to the same amount as the highest level mesh. LODs should be at least half of each other. So for example, the medium level is half of the high level's polycount and the same for the low level being half of the medium level's polycount. That way you're sure that it won't affect your downloader's game with lagging and crashes! :)
The polycount for the mesh is somewhat high but not too high! Now, of course, this isn't an issue per-sé, though it might be wise to add a little warning on top of your description in Bold for any downloaders with Low-end PCs. Something like: "The poly count for this item is on the high side, so if you have a weak graphics card, try to use it sparingly."
In the future, we'd recommend trying to make any future new mesh uploads a bit more low-poly whenever possible. :)
The polygon count for your item is good - not too high, and you've used the polys well as well as on all Levels of detail! Lovely! <3
It seems that the LODs (levels of detail) are almost to the same amount as the highest level mesh. This is only fine if your mesh is around 500 polys or below. LODs should be at least half of each other. So for example, the medium level is half of the high level's polycount and the same for the low level being half of the medium level's polycount. That way you're sure that it won't affect your downloader's game with lagging and crashes! :)
The polycount seems to be a tad too high for the type of mesh that it is supposed to be. It could take a bit of work to get this back to an acceptable level but it certainly will be worth it in the end as it will prevent downloaders from having lagging issues or game crashes. :)
The polycount seems to be a tad too high for the type of Food mesh that it is supposed to be. It could take a bit of work to get this back to an acceptable level but it certainly will be worth it in the end as it will prevent downloaders from having lagging issues or game crashes. :)
The polycount seems to be a tad too high for the type of Game mod's mesh that it is supposed to be. It could take a bit of work to get this back to an acceptable level but it certainly will be worth it in the end as it will prevent downloaders from having lagging issues or game crashes. :)
The polygon count for your item is great! Quite reasonably low, with every poly used just so. Well done! :)
Tutorials - General (All games)
Polycount guide - A guide for beginners and advanced creators!
Tiptorial: Low-Poly 3D Modelling - How and Why
Tutorials - The Sims 2
If as a Sims 2 Creator you want to find a very efficient and fast way to find the polycounts then SimPE (as always) is your friend! To find the polygon counts you want to:
NOTE: if you have more groups, then count up the FaceCounts of group 1 and 2 and any additional groups together to get the full polygon counts :)
General Modding - Polycount guide - A guide for beginners and advanced creators!
Objects - Tiptorial: Low-Poly 3D Modelling - How and Why
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