High poly/ low poly?

[new_comer]

Can someone show me some examples of a low poly and a high poly car mesh? Thanks.

[marty-bett]

Sometimes (like in contests) high poly cars are just low poly cars with meshsmooth..

[Catlin]

uhm marty.thats what highpoly mesh is

[NightEye]

Well, not exactly..

lowpoly car: http://arjen.zanderz.org/sting/sting-13.jpg
highpoly car: http://arjen.zanderz.org/dino/dino-26.jpg

Yes, the highpoly one is with "meshsmooth" on, but the basemodel is totally different. When "meshsmoothing" the lowpoly car, it's nowhere near as beautyful as the highpoly one.

[Tigga]

Basically you can break it down into two different methods of thinking when modelling.

For Highpoly, you only concern yourself if you get the shape of the car right, and not how efficient your polygon usage is. You also will most likely only work with materials and not "real" textures like on a lowpoly mesh. The polycount doesn't have a limit for this one.

For Lowpoly, your main concern is getting the shape right while having the lowest possible polygoncount. Good lowpoly models are also completely mapped and textured, so you don't have to model small details and stuff.

[new_comer]

Hmm, right. Thanks.

[rapheal9]

well here's an example of the hi poly and lopoly car!, here u can see to the left is a hipoly car and to the right is a lopoly car.

kind attention: the attached image is the work of an individual unknown to me this image is merely an example and notthing more