Importing foliage problems

Lycaonz · July 21, 2015, 5:12am

So I imported foliage from Blender, but when I placed them (just tree’s) They lagged it a lot. I was wondering how to fix that.

Jamendxman3 · July 21, 2015, 6:07am

What are your full PC specs, how many trees have you placed, how many polygons are there per tree?

Lycaonz · July 21, 2015, 1:00pm

Geforce GTX 550 TI
AMD A8-7650K Radeon R7, 10 compute cores 4C+6G
14GB Ram
OS windows 7
I’m not entirely sure how to check Poly count I am new to development. I’m currently using blender to model the tree’s.

anonymous_user_923c79df · July 21, 2015, 2:38pm

To check the tri count, do a double click on the tree in the content browser - in the static mesh editor you can see the tri count

how many materials do you use for the tree?

Lycaonz · July 21, 2015, 7:31pm

I haven’t added materials yet. But thanks! I feel stupid for not seeing that though -_-’

Jamendxman3 · July 21, 2015, 8:35pm

Well tell us how many triangles it is so that we can assess whether or not this lag is normal for your PC specs. Your video card is not looking sufficient, but you should still get a decent FPS on a decent tree model.

Lycaonz · July 22, 2015, 1:43am

I assume over 1million triangles is bad?

Jamendxman3 · July 22, 2015, 2:02am

That is quite bad, how does a recommended of 40k sound?

Lycaonz · July 22, 2015, 2:23am

Sounds better :D, how would I go about fixing it?

Jamendxman3 · July 22, 2015, 2:25am

There are a few polygon reduction tools, one of them being Simplygon. I’m sure there are a few tutorials for polygon reduction for whatever 3D software you are using.

Lycaonz · July 22, 2015, 2:50am

Thanks for your help!

anonymous_user_923c79df · July 22, 2015, 2:21pm

For a tree I personally always use around 6000 tris
In blender you can reduce the tri count by hand (delete some tris) or use the “decimate” modifier