All type of polygons have constraints. If there is too many polygons it can effect the game in many ways such as lower frame rates , slow scrolling , slow zooming , game freezes , system freezes , graphic related errors and graphic anomalies.
Personal Computer
The polygon constraints on a pc varies massively because developers make games with different benchmarks to run on a vary of pc's. It mainly depends on the game and what software is out at the time. For example Half Life 2 in 2004 - Alyx Vance had 8323 polygons which was a main character. A more common character where a couple would be on screen at once had around 4682. A more recent high demanding game such as Crysis in 2007 for the main character uses round 60k - 80k whereas a teammate uses round 22k - 24k and an enemy korean solder round 12k - 16k. This shows the constraints of a game can change rapidly. The thing about polygons on pc is that it can handle a lot higher than consoles if you have a high spec pc.
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| Polygons in head |
Home Console
The current generation of consoles have increased the amount of polygons it can handle. The max a large model can have on the ps3 is probably 150k polygons since Lair had that amount on the dragon and that game had quite a lot of fps lag.On a smaller model than a such as a car in gran turismo 5 a car had 200k polygons.On the Xbox 360 a launch game such as gears of war for the main character had 15k polygons because it was badly optimised. A game like lost planet had loads of polygons used. A main character would have round 17k polygons but the background had an estimate of 500k polygons. The cap on consoles is a lot lower than pc's but is still quite high. The advantage of making of making a a game for a console is you have a set limit of how much polygons and quality of textures you can use.
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| Polygons of car in xbox game |
Mobile devices have a much lower polygon count that consoles and pc since it has greater limitations since it has smaller processors. They would only have a max of round 50k for the iPhone 3gs
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| Example of a game on the iphone |
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