Stat Mesh

[AMmayhem]

When you type "stat mesh" in the game, which one of those numbers should I be looking at the most? I'm assuming a lower number is better, so how would you help bring it down?

 

[Hourences]

i only look too meshcount, and the more important meshpolycount, and the meshpolycount should stay under a few 1000, 4000-5000 i thought would start to run slow, by 50.000 your ut prolly chrashes

 

[RedEye(Co30)]

LOL @ AMmayhem . . .

For using Lump the No-Legged Dog! Good one!

 

[MrFawn]

keep the number below 500!

at 1000 is already **** slow and dont forget you're also supposed to draw playmodels too

 

[AMmayhem]

Hmmm, I'll have to look again at what mine said. I'm pretty sure I'm mostly in the 400's, but I'm not sure.

If I separated rooms into zones, wouldn't that help? At least that's what I remember reading somewhere.

 

[Bot_40]

No, the game still has to render all the polys on all the meshes in view. That will only help if the engine is rendering a mesh that isn't in view, zoning should help this I think.

 

[AMmayhem]

Ok, I'm averaging about 500 with the meshpolycount. I low about 250-300, and my high gets up to 1100. This is still without bots, pathnodes, and a skybox. Any thoughts on how to bring it down?

 

[Hourences]

pathnodes and a skybox wont raise it, nothing in there wich could do that (for a normal skybox at least)
erm spread the stuff more, and put some things like ammo behind brushes, behind a pillar or beind corners so you see less in the total area

 

[AMmayhem]

Fires would raise the polycount to wouldn't it? Because I do have some flames in the open, and it slows a little when I look at them.

 

[Hourences]

if it are meshes offcoure yes, if it are brushes too yes, but not for the mesh polycount then, everything you see slows down, only differnce, 1 thing always slows down more then the other