Overlapping polys make the model 5.000 faces

[meliritos]

Question 1. I converted a model fron .mesh to ms3d. it was the lod0 model and i was overwhelmed to see in 3dmax that the norse swordsmen was around 5.000 polys big!!!
Then i saw that this was due to some faces being there 4 times, overlapping eachother. I mean, for example for the primary sword i have sword primary_8, sword primary_7 kai sword primary_6. For the head i have head_10, head_09 and head_01 Why is that? One model was not enough? I am confused. (And why do we need primary and plain sword anyway? One isnt enough?)
Question 2. Furthermore, when i model, should i break my model to these parts too or one head will be ebough.
Question 3. Assigning a face to multiple bones is ok in M2TW? (from max i can see we can but can someone confirm? )

Can somebody help me?

 

[Briarius]

Question 1. I converted a model fron .mesh to ms3d. it was the lod0 model and i was overwhelmed to see in 3dmax that the norse swordsmen was around 5.000 polys big!!!
Then i saw that this was due to some faces being there 4 times, overlapping eachother. I mean, for example for the primary sword i have sword primary_8, sword primary_7 kai sword primary_6. For the head i have head_10, head_09 and head_01 Why is that? One model was not enough? I am confused. (And why do we need primary and plain sword anyway? One isnt enough?)
Question 2. Furthermore, when i model, should i break my model to these parts too or one head will be ebough.
Question 3. Assigning a face to multiple bones is ok in M2TW? (from max i can see we can but can someone confirm? )(Myself I'm making the vertex assignment in milkshape)

Can somebody help me?

Hi,

Question 1: No it's not enough..one model would make clone armies..the game needs those variations to mix up the units look and have more various units

Question2: You can decide that..if you think one arm or head is enough for you that's your choice..

Question3: Yes it's ok...even so! You'll get better result at some body parts when you assigning faces to multiple bones..(knees, shoulder, etc..)

Hope this helps

 

[Taiji]

... Was about to repeat the clone armies comment which Briariuss had just made, because I didn't manage to spot it before posting