Pets and Steeds...

[Dmonk]

What are the restrictions for map size and Trianlge count for pets and steed?

[FredH]

They come out of either your character budget or weapon budget, not both. This works for poly budgets and texture budgets.

Hope this helps:)

_FreD_

[Dmonk]

Fair enough!

[Rick Stirling]

How about if the steed was the base?

[dimensions3]

I have a 2 questions about pets...
(1) I would like to include 4 insect minions, which are pets ... The polycount will be subtracted from the character. I want to be sure I can include 4, If not I will only include 1.
(2) My character has command over a swarm of insects, I would like to create the swarm using particles effects referencing a single mesh, which is part of my weapon poly budget. Is it ok to do this? Can I only count the single insect particle mesh since the rest in the swarm will be references of that one mesh?

[FredH]

1. You can have as many pets as you would like as long as everything together doesn't exceed your character's 6000 poly limit.
2. Particles is mainly used for glows and effects, not for creating mini creatures comprised of polygons. However, you can put a little bug picture on the particle plane and this would be fine:) If you opt for making many little polygon using critters for your particles, you would have up to 1000 polygons max for everything.

Hope this helps. If you have any other questions, let me know:)