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daffas 12-01-2006 02:52 AM

Poly Count
 
I am doing the low poly character tutorial, and when they show you the poly count they have tris and i dont. How would i get that up? I have PLE if that matters.

mtmckinley 12-01-2006 04:18 AM

Maya 6 or maybe 6.5 added the Tri count to the polycount display. Previous polycount displays only counted the number of faces.

If you're asking how to get it to show up, go to Display > Heads Up Display > Polycount.

daffas 12-01-2006 10:28 PM

Ok thanks, I have version 5.0 so thats why I never saw tris.

Joopson 14-01-2006 11:14 PM

maya 7 ple is available now

pbman 14-01-2006 11:59 PM

THIS MAY SOUND STUPID BUT WHATS THE DIFF BETWENN FACES AND TRIS?

sorry bout the capp didnt relise and cant be bothered to re type

Joopson 15-01-2006 12:21 AM

faces are 4 sided, 5 sided 3 sided, any sided, those are faces, tries take all the faces and sees how many it would be if they were all 3 sided faces

Phopojijo 15-01-2006 03:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by pbman
THIS MAY SOUND STUPID BUT WHATS THE DIFF BETWENN FACES AND TRIS?

sorry bout the capp didnt relise and cant be bothered to re type

So you type a longer explaination than the fix itself?

Triangles are simply 3-side geometric figures where faces can have any conceivable amount of sides. Games generally use triangles though some are starting to warm up to the notion of Quads.

P.S. -- I use 6.0 and I have triangle count in my HUD -- so its 6.0, not 6.5

mtmckinley 15-01-2006 03:59 AM

games aren't warming up to quads so much as most modern engines will triangulate the model for you upon importing it, rather than you having to do it yourself.


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