History Founded on April 1, 1998, by Andrew Risch and Ted Shockey, the site was originally named Q2PMP (Quake2 Player Model Pack), featuring user created…

Chadwick, Eric (June 3, 2013). "Interview WildStar, Behind the Scenes". Polycount. Retrieved June 18, 2013. Dumitrescu, Andrei (March 26, 2013). "WildStar's

Bromell, Adam (November 20, 2012). "The Environment Art of Halo 4". Polycount. p. 1. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved November

edu/dutchs/symmetry/POLYHOW M.HTM) Counting polyhedra (http://www.numericana.com/data/polycount.htm) numericana.com [2016-1-10] Inchbald, Guy. "Five Space-Filling Polyhedra

polygons, a low number for the PlayStation 2. This allowed the game more polycounts for its large levels. During the final months of development, one of the

HAIR!? i saw some good hair examples from some of the entries in comicon challenge 2010, and the varga tut is a widely referenced method, but I think thi…

Specializing or not ? Question is ... Professionally speaking is it better to specialize in a narrow field such as texture art or character modeling only…

3d Printing noob questions I'm thinking about getting some 1-2" or so diving helmets printed out to give out at GDC. I haven't printed anything before so…

SoilChild Texture Tutorial! (image Heavy) Hey guys, I started this way back at the blizzard comp. Not as finished as I would like it to be, but I hope yo…

I wouldn't really say that anything is necessarily harder than others. I do believe that artists in general need to put a lot more hours into what they d…

'Hand Painted' Step by step thing of some sort. I get a lot of emails and PM's asking for hand painted texturing techniques, so i figure this might be mo…

Best Of It is similar to scultping or painting. First get in the biggest shapes. Focus on the composition. And, if it were a game, the gameplay. Then you…

AL Artificial Life (AL) is the antithesis of AI. While AI seeks to simulate real-world behaviour by following a complex series of rules, AL starts with v…

AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a set of computer instructions or algorithms designed to simulate the actions of an intelligent being to the extent ne…

PBR Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) is an approach for materials and rendering that creates more accurate and predictable results than previous game ren…

DDS DDS is a texture container file format, it stands for Direct Draw Surface. "Container" means it can contain a variety of image formats: compressed or…

3Dc 3Dc is a compressed texture file format for normal maps by AMD (formerly ATI). It is a two-component compression format where only X and Y are stored…

DXT DXT is a texture compression format, formerly known as S3TC. DXT is widely supported on current graphics hardware, meaning it will stay compressed in…

Fog Fog makes objects become more and more the same color as they recede into the distance. This is similar to real fog, except that game fog is a perfec…

FOV Field Of View (FOV) is a traditional photography term, meaning the area that the camera can see in the game scene. The FOV is usually defined by its …

Roll If you tilt your head to read the spine of a book, this is roll in action. One of the three rotational axes commonly used to describe the rotation o…

Tools This category describes software used by artists for game development. 3D Tools Main 3D Software Packages These are "complete" 3D packages with a w…

Pitch Pitch is one of the three rotational axes commonly used to describe the rotation of an object. If you nod your head "yes," this is pitch in action.…

Viewer A viewer means You, the user of the game engine looking at the 3D scene through your computer screen. The viewer looks into the game world from a …

What is a Shader? A shader is a bit of computer code that is commonly used to describe how a surface will be rendered. It takes some inputs (textures, ve…

UNREAL ENGINE 4 Vertex Normals Foliage meshes in game are usually made using flat planes with a Transparency map containing a bunch of leaves (or grass b…

Modeling 3D modeling for game development is usually not a specific job role, but rather a skill required for many artists in different roles. At a large…

BDRF map BRDF stands for Bidirectional Radiance Distribution Function, a way for describing how a surface reflects light. In game shaders BRDF is usually…

B-Spline A B-spline allows you to make a curved line with very few points. It has control points with equal weights to adjust the shape of the curve. The…

Frustrum Frustrum is a term from traditional photography, the shape that the camera creates when projected into the scene. This pyramidal shape defines t…

Z-Buffer is used by a game engine to determine which objects, or parts of objects, are visible and which are hidden behind other objects. The graphics pro…

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of …

Error1001 DNS resolution error What happened? You've requested a page on a website (boards.polycount.net) that is on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare i…

The Polycount Pack item sets require players to have the set's cosmetic item equipped to activate the item set bonus. Many other sets, while they require…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…

History Founded on April 1, 1998, by Andrew Risch and Ted Shockey, the site was originally named Q2PMP (Quake2 Player Model Pack), featuring user created…

@Ewan Nice to learn what scale you extracted from the concept I think it's a bit of a balancing act between capturing the feel of the concept and having a…

Chadwick, Eric (June 3, 2013). "Interview WildStar, Behind the Scenes". Polycount. Retrieved June 18, 2013. Dumitrescu, Andrei (March 26, 2013). "WildStar's

Bromell, Adam (November 20, 2012). "The Environment Art of Halo 4". Polycount. p. 1. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved November

edu/dutchs/symmetry/POLYHOW M.HTM) Counting polyhedra (http://www.numericana.com/data/polycount.htm) numericana.com [2016-1-10] Inchbald, Guy. "Five Space-Filling Polyhedra

polygons, a low number for the PlayStation 2. This allowed the game more polycounts for its large levels. During the final months of development, one of the

HAIR!? i saw some good hair examples from some of the entries in comicon challenge 2010, and the varga tut is a widely referenced method, but I think thi…

Specializing or not ? Question is ... Professionally speaking is it better to specialize in a narrow field such as texture art or character modeling only…

3d Printing noob questions I'm thinking about getting some 1-2" or so diving helmets printed out to give out at GDC. I haven't printed anything before so…

SoilChild Texture Tutorial! (image Heavy) Hey guys, I started this way back at the blizzard comp. Not as finished as I would like it to be, but I hope yo…

I wouldn't really say that anything is necessarily harder than others. I do believe that artists in general need to put a lot more hours into what they d…

'Hand Painted' Step by step thing of some sort. I get a lot of emails and PM's asking for hand painted texturing techniques, so i figure this might be mo…

Best Of It is similar to scultping or painting. First get in the biggest shapes. Focus on the composition. And, if it were a game, the gameplay. Then you…

AL Artificial Life (AL) is the antithesis of AI. While AI seeks to simulate real-world behaviour by following a complex series of rules, AL starts with v…

AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a set of computer instructions or algorithms designed to simulate the actions of an intelligent being to the extent ne…

PBR Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) is an approach for materials and rendering that creates more accurate and predictable results than previous game ren…

DDS DDS is a texture container file format, it stands for Direct Draw Surface. "Container" means it can contain a variety of image formats: compressed or…

3Dc 3Dc is a compressed texture file format for normal maps by AMD (formerly ATI). It is a two-component compression format where only X and Y are stored…

DXT DXT is a texture compression format, formerly known as S3TC. DXT is widely supported on current graphics hardware, meaning it will stay compressed in…

Fog Fog makes objects become more and more the same color as they recede into the distance. This is similar to real fog, except that game fog is a perfec…

FOV Field Of View (FOV) is a traditional photography term, meaning the area that the camera can see in the game scene. The FOV is usually defined by its …

Roll If you tilt your head to read the spine of a book, this is roll in action. One of the three rotational axes commonly used to describe the rotation o…

Tools This category describes software used by artists for game development. 3D Tools Main 3D Software Packages These are "complete" 3D packages with a w…

Pitch Pitch is one of the three rotational axes commonly used to describe the rotation of an object. If you nod your head "yes," this is pitch in action.…

Viewer A viewer means You, the user of the game engine looking at the 3D scene through your computer screen. The viewer looks into the game world from a …

What is a Shader? A shader is a bit of computer code that is commonly used to describe how a surface will be rendered. It takes some inputs (textures, ve…

UNREAL ENGINE 4 Vertex Normals Foliage meshes in game are usually made using flat planes with a Transparency map containing a bunch of leaves (or grass b…

Modeling 3D modeling for game development is usually not a specific job role, but rather a skill required for many artists in different roles. At a large…

BDRF map BRDF stands for Bidirectional Radiance Distribution Function, a way for describing how a surface reflects light. In game shaders BRDF is usually…

B-Spline A B-spline allows you to make a curved line with very few points. It has control points with equal weights to adjust the shape of the curve. The…

Frustrum Frustrum is a term from traditional photography, the shape that the camera creates when projected into the scene. This pyramidal shape defines t…

Z-Buffer is used by a game engine to determine which objects, or parts of objects, are visible and which are hidden behind other objects. The graphics pro…

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of …

Error1001 DNS resolution error What happened? You've requested a page on a website (boards.polycount.net) that is on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare i…

The Polycount Pack item sets require players to have the set's cosmetic item equipped to activate the item set bonus. Many other sets, while they require…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…

@MrKote The polycount on most of these is around 10-15k, and that includes interior and engine/chassis (which is the same on almost every car by the way)…