Maya Polycount issue

SuperSparkplug

Ironically, I'm posting a problem on polycounts on Polycount.

I'm making a low-poly game mesh in Maya, however I've noticed some issues wiht my polycount. When I click my mesh, it says my model is about 5700 faces. However, when I zoom out and look at my total visible polycount, it tells me I have over 12000. I can't seem to make sense of this. I've made everything visible with the display options to make sure nothing was hiding. I've also toggled my layers and it seems that something is tied to the main layer making my polycount so big, but when I cut and pasted the model to a new layer, the polycount was still unreasonably high as it was. Anyone know why this is?

Illusions

If you're using the HUD, first column of numbers is everything visible in the viewport, second column is everything visible and selected in the viewport. Also, faces aren't the same as tris, and you'll want to go by the tri count. A face can be made up of anything from one to many tris.

SuperSparkplug

I know that. My problem is that, selected, my mesh has 5700. Zooming out makes the visible polycount column rise for some inexplicable reason when there's nothing there and nothing hidden.

Bartalon

I've seen this happen before but I'm not sure what the cause is. Exporting the object and importing it into a fresh scene should fix the issue.