It's simply amazing how much work you have to finish this project!! Congratulations, i loved the hand painted textures and the design of your project!

Originally Posted by slipsius

I went to save your finals for inspiration, and well, would you look at that. My computer mysteriously saved them to polycount banner resolution. weird....

Thats funny, can you believe the same happened to me?

I've already said this... but it's worth to repeat. This thread should be on PC showcase. So much useful information, and such beautiful artwork shouldn't fall in oblivion. This thread deserves the highlight.

+1 mill to that post :P

So much threads deserve to be there lately, still they never seem to get attention from the right persons.

I sent in a formal request to the admins to get this on the banner

I can get this one up in the banners for sure. We need to get some more character work up there also!

Originally Posted by Justin_Meisse

The image is correct, the interpretation is wrong, that image is about vertex counts not draw calls.

But isn't it so that each draw call only renders a bunch of connected/stripped triangles? And that thus each triangle island, including those from smoothing group/mesh splits, is a new draw call?

cant believe i missed this... really nice work

would love to see some more detail in the chateau's steps and i think its missing a touch of bedded in-ness... possibly some alpha decals around the arches and windows to make them sit better would help it to look a touch more solid

Ahh, oh my goodness, I can't express enough how honored I am to be added to the banners . . . thank you so much to everybody for supporting my work and helping me to make it better!!

Fantastic work. Congrats on making it to banner status!

Congrats on the banner! This is probably one of my favorite threads on pc! Too many goodies lurking inside. Hurry and post in your new thread so I can pick everyone's brains some more.

Congrats Jessica, you made it! I hope that now although you are a PC elite member, you stay talking with us, poor average joes.

Amazing thread, full of amazing talent, and amazing people with amazing critiques and amazingly helpful information.

This is my favorite thread on polycount for this month or so.

Jessica, you are an inspiration and true talent!

I was following this thread from day one, but only now finished reading the last few pages. Everyone on Polycount has been wonderful and the information in this thread is invaluable.
This is why the forum is so great.

Congrats on making the banner too, Jess

Congrats to the feature looks awesome!

grats, jessica.

congrats on your banner, you certainly earned it!

500 posts in this thread, wow. Congrtas Jessica on the banner.

So much awesome all in one place. Much deserved banner!

Congrats and thanks for the inspiration

Originally Posted by Snader

Yes, a bit.


In the top image, you can see there are 12 chunks of polygons, so 12 draw calls.

Every 'split' in the model is a draw call. Every UV island is an extra draw call, every smoothing group, every instance of a prop in the scene. Everything gets divvied up in to small bite sized pieces. Having two smaller pieces instead of a large one doesn't cost any more effort to render, but it does take every so slightly more time because instead of the CPU telling the GPU "now render this", it has to say "now render this, and that".

That's not correct. Drawcalls are very simply put, when the Draw() command is called for a specific mesh AND material/shader. DirectX (or any other graphics API) can render any model/object in a single call, but it can only use one material for this call. So if you have two models, that's two drawcalls. If those models have two different materials, that's 2 times 2, so 4 drawcalls, since for every model you'll have to call the draw function for the part with material A, and then for the part with material B.
Smoothing group splits and UV splits do not affect drawcalls. They do increase the FINAL vertexcount, which is more important to judge the performance impact than tri/polycount.

Sorry to detract from the work, but I'd prefer the information in a featured topic to be correct ;)

@xoliul

This thread seems to be all about people chiming in with helpful info, so I don't think anyone really minds a bit.

I believe someone else said something to this affect in response already. . . I'm personally glad that people take time to post when they see info they feel to be not totally accurate.

awesome that this is up on the banner now! and well deserved. great job jessica.

Stunning work, I am unbelievably inspired by your patient work ethic. :]