Ok over at gtaf there have been a bunch of people learning to model and making SUPER HIGH QUALITY models that look totally out of place..
What I've done is make 2 models, and show 1 gta IV level quality and the other is the SUPER DUPER HIGH QUALITY POLY HIGH!!! model.
Sure the HD models look great but they're for rendering and movies and crap, not games. next gen games like IV use low poly models for cups and crap.
The low quality ones are between 40-70 polys and the HD plate is 11 thousand polys, the cup is 17 thousand.
An entire game of models full of polys like these means KABOOM to your PC.
So anyone starting to model and mod gta here, keep your poly count/ level of detail in mind.