Invisible wrote:
> I often look at a game like HL and wonder how it's even possible. I 
> mean, you walk through the map for, like, 20 minutes before you get to 
> the other end. The total polygon count must be spine-tinglingly huge. 

It doesn't draw 10 billion separate vertices - it only draws about 150M 
vertices, 60 times each.  Of course, most of those are instances of the 
same meshes, so it's really only about 1-3M unique vertices in a given 
scene.

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...Ben Chambers
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