Does this make sense?
Motoki:
Yes, to be honest I never really though it had anything to do with the polygon count other than that maybe indirectly contributes to the game and the lot just getting overloaded. *shrug* Not sure if it's a video card/driver issue or just the game's way of telling you you're pushing it too far.
I do know certain custom items were known to cause this to happen frequently for some people. In particular some of the earlier created beds did this.
Sagana:
I've never seen a Maxis item do it. I've got an emachine with a built-in video card (yes I know it's awful) - an extreme graphics something or another (the pc is being used by someone else or I'd be hogging it) and it only happens to me on CC with poly counts that bother the poor card. I'll take a pic of the stove tomorrow when I can get to the computer... it's obviously coming from that in my game (admittedly I had that house packed with stuff as well - maybe that was just the item that drove it over the edge). When I get that, I delete it (and usually prune too) and my game runs better.
vecki:
The most obvious example I can think of a Maxis object doing it was the expensive telescope. It was a solid bar of grey the height of the telescope stretching out into the distance.
MokeyHokey:
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You can see it in SimPE. If you open the package, then select the GMDC (Geometric Data Container) on left hand side, select one of the entries in the upper right window, then down in the lower part of the screen there should be a tab called "3D Mesh". Select that and look for the Faces= and Vertices= and those are the counts.
Motoki, which one matters more, vertex or face? Does anyone even agree on this? I ask because I've occasionally downloaded something that seems to have an adequate face count, but Pe tells me it can't count the vertexes (verteces?) as there are too many. Or maybe it's the other way round. I've not been using these things since I figure if Pe can't count it, I don't want to.
I do appreciate the effort you made way back in the day. I even had that thread bookmarked for a while and kept going back to it to see if anything new had been added.
fff:
So that's what those weird lines are! I see them fairly often, and just assumed they were a result of my craptacular video card. So let me get this right, any custom object that spawns these lines is bad news, and should be given the arse ASAP?
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