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Old 4th June 2006, 07:26 PM   #1
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Default How do I check the amount of polygons?

Is there a way to check the amount of polygons in a model? I'm working on a character model for my game, and I wanna keep the polies down to a minumum to reduce lag. Any idea on how to check that?
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Old 4th June 2006, 07:49 PM   #2
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Old 4th June 2006, 08:06 PM   #3
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Where would it be in there?


I know its not vertices, and surfaces looks to be too low to be the polycount.
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Old 4th June 2006, 10:29 PM   #4
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Surfaces is the polycount.

However, if you want the polycount for a video game, you may be looking for the triangle polycount. A 4-sided polygon just counts as one polygon (or surface) in AC3D and most other modelers, but video game engines will treat this as 2 polygons/triangles.

The only way I know to get the triangle count is to triangulate your model (using Surface -> Triangulate), then check the polycount, then Undo the triangulate step to get back from triangles to n-gons.

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