Polycount

[Springheel]

Is there a console command that tells you the number of polys in a map?

[SteveL]

Not that I've spotted. Dmap does give this info I think, at least for worldspawn and DR-built func statics, but it buries the info in 1000s of lines of other stuff.

[nbohr1more]

r_showPrimitives 1

views:2 draws:445 tris:11580 (shdw:3216) (vbo:0) image: 5.3 MB

 

views is the number of camera views that are drawn (increases with mirrors, etc)
draws is the number of draw calls sent to the video card (try to keep this low)
tris is the number of triangles sent to the video card (not as important as draws)
shdw is the number of shadow triangles sent
vbo is the number of vertex buffers used
image is the amount of image data used

 

This might come in handy too:

showTriSurfMemory

 

shows memory used by triangle surfaces

[Bikerdude]

And the draws calls are what I have always used a good indicator of how a map will perf.

Edited February 3, 2015 by Bikerdude

[Obsttorte]

Man, we really need a dictionary English-Bikedude, Bikerdude-English

[SteveL]

r_showPrimitives only tells you how many tris can be seen from the current viewpoint though, not how many there are in the map. I suppose you could try it while noclipping high over the map and looking down. Also I suspect it multiplies tris by the number of lights hitting them, which is fair enough from a performance perspective because that's how many times they get drawn.

[SeriousToni]

Man, we really need a dictionary English-Bikedude, Bikerdude-English

This topic really comes up once in a year! But it's always amusing and not meant in a harsh way of course!

[Bikerdude]

This topic really comes up once in a year! But it's always amusing and not meant in a harsh way of course!