Fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much. Sometimes tutorial give me headaches, they are so complicated, so I put them aside for later. But yours was awesome, simple but not simplistic (to me anyway), yet very informative.
I suggest you name your tutorial Understanding Polygon counts for peasants
Okay now, I want more How-to for peasants: Re-categorizing hair, Fixing DNA after a Sim Surgery, Creating skin replacement... .. after supper of course
just kidding
rushes off to download Datgen
edit : Interesting, I discovered that CBOY err "enhancement package" was flagged moderate being over budget by 8.5. I'm not quite sure what the budget is in this case considering Maxis 's males lack of hmm features but anyway.
I checked with SimsPE to get a clearer picture, and discovered with your easy-to-follow instructions that the polygon count for each state was actually quite low. The higest I saw was around 500. So I guess you have to use DatGen as a guideline only.
Sorry for being waaaaaay off topic