Question about the Max polycounter

snap.crackle.pop

I have an object in my scene, when activated the polycounter under "count polygons" i get 837


But when i activate the "count triangles" it goes up to 1430, and i have about 4 visible triangles on my object


What is the best way to know the exact number of "faces" in Max ? i don't really care if its tris or polyquads but just the real number of faces.

Thanks people

MoP

Triangles is the "real" count. If you have it set to "count polygons", it will treat quads as a single polygon (which they are) but a quad is made up of 2 triangles.

snap.crackle.pop

:Scrathes head:

Ok, so if my limit is 1000 polygons i should read the count from "triangles" which will bonce the score at 1600 when in reality i only see 837 faces ?

I see what you mean by polygons are made up by 2 triangles, you can clearly see it if you collapse your mesh to "edit mesh" there's a whole lot more polys created.

Jay Evans

yes,If your max poly count is 1000 polys. That means 1000 triangles.