what polycount limit for the unit models?

hello
tell me please what polycount limit for the unit models?
for larger units such as Dante or catapult
I would like to offer model)))

Think like this if that unit is gonna be cheap then it must be simple, but catapult is rather expensive unit so it can be high poly.

1000-10,000 is the short answer. For a mech, upper end or higher is good.

Dont listen to Karotte, the Glaive and all other cloakbots are 1000+ polygons (more for the warrior and zeus) and they are spammed by the dozen. Polycount is not a huge bottleneck for modern PC's, pathfinding will always screw over your PC before polycount does.

If the glaive costs 65, and has 1k polygons, then the mechs, which cost ~100 as much (~5000), can afford 100,000 polygons. I am not joking, you will easily see 100 glaives at a time in some games. That is not a reason for lazy modeling or using cinematic levels of detail (These are still game models, so no 1000 sided cylinders) but practically, dont worry too much about polycount. If you're making a Mech unit though, it should look _fantastic_. Though as long as its better than the current ones, obviously, thats a start.

Glad to have more contributors!

The spherebot is 1000 tri's afaik, but it doesnt matter much, it is only going to, at worse, double the count. Which given your max budget is 10,000 doesnt really matter.

512x512 is standard for most models, but 1024x1024 is appropriate for larger models if you are using the detail. Again, that doesnt mean be sloppy, through good unwrapping, good mirroring, downsizing of unseen portions and reusing repetitive areas you can get much higher quality textures and take up much less uv space...

Do you have any pictures? It can be good to get feedback in the early stage.

Ahh very cool looking, lots of chance to get some interesting scripting going in the articulation of the tail and legs.For gameplay, if it had a slow turnrate, the forward-only facing cannons would allow you to outflank it. Very good concept actually. Look forward to seeing the texture- that'll be what really makes it.

Hrrm, when it comes to animation this, i'd have to think carefully about how low it is to the ground. If its a big mech (especially if its all terrain perhaps?) its going to be going over areas with some variable height, which might lead to it clipping into the ground. But it looks like the legs have plenty of articulation, so this can be avoided (there are tricks you can use to detect the ground height under the unit at various points and make sure it raises itself up if it needs to).

scorpio can sit anywhere on the mountain and stun enemies by Lighting from sting in the tail

another question
can I use an alpha channel texture as reflection map, or it is used for team colors?

No, texture 1 alpha is for teamcolor. Texture 2 is for shininess and texture 2 alpha is for alpha.

Its best to look at existing models in the game

Looks very nice :D