What is a good poly and vertex count for a 3d weapon model?

I am creating a series of 3d weapon models and would like to know what a good poly and vertex count would be to make the models realistic yet not consume too much processing power (or gpu power whatever). Any opinions?

 

Somewhere between 35 and 200,000 depending on the scope of the game.

 

Thanks I created a round shield with less than 5000 polygons and 5000 verticies and 6000 normals

 

Cool story bro.

 

Define your visual quality first, then use the minimum resources to produce it.

Probably don't need more than 50k for a realistic first person weapon, unless it's some ridiculous sci-fi machine gun with a million pieces. Download the mod kit to a game like Squad or Arma or Paragon so you can see how they built the weapons in those games.

 

Dude! 200,000?!

That's way to much, unless you're planning to use it, to make
a normal map etc.

 

Yep.

Speaking of polycounts for weapons, I was surprised to find out
that Kasumi's daggers in DOA 5, had like over 10,000 polys.
And the thing is, she doesn't even use them in the game.
They're just props for her black ninja costume.

It's obvious that they did that, to make it fit in, with her in game models
high polycount. But still, I find that kinda amazing.

 

4 vertices in quad
And slam an image on top

 

Or do fancy stuff in Substance Designer with the same number of vertices.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kgkax

 

Nice one. Just like minecraft with curves

 

Thats not 4 vertices!

You are not stating your target specs. We are targeting Desktop VR, our weapons range between 30 and 50k without attachments. There are also more important factors today than tricount. Forexample shader optimization, draw calls etc

 

That's a lot of polygons for a "round shield."

 

It's very round.
Very.