Too much detail, or not enough?

working on a model, can it be used in sins?

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Did a bit of doodling on sketchup and I came up with (what I think) is an okay design for a frigate. I haven't seen any wireframes of the stock ships used in the game, so I was wondering:

Is this too much detail on the model, or not enough? I know a lot of the detail goes in with textures, but I'd like to get an opinion on how detailed to make the model.

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Looks good.

If you can keep it at around 1500-2000 tri's you should be ok. That is the average poly count for a Sins frigate.

FYI

Frigates, Cruisers, and Civilian craft 1500-2000 tri's. Some Sins frigates go over 3000, but you want to keep the count as low as possible.

Cap ships average 3000-4000 tri's (biggest sins cap i seen was around 4500).

Strike craft between 500-700

structures can go as high as 7000. In the starbase's case the advent starbase is a ridiculous 12000. Again the lower the count the better.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I know this classification: (1k = 1000)

fighter - to 1k tri

frigate - 1k to 3k tri

cruiser - 3k to 5k tri

CAP - 3k to 15k tri (my self made such model and is in game)

Starbase - to 40k tri

Structure - ~20k tri

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