poly count

[okin]

hi, im about to start modeling a charater and would like to know how do i check the poly count along the way, and also what is a good poly count for a character that i want to animate, (just a human in pants and shirt nothing else)?....also is there any way to check if i have any non-quad poly faces on it ?

[user_deleted]

Go to: Display > Heads Up Display > Poly Count

Poly count depends on if your doin it for game or film. For games I always see companies on monster.com, gamasutra, etc asking for under 8,000. (8,00o is alot for most game engines) Check out www.polycount.com. for more info.
I dont know of any way to check for non quad faces besides eyeballin it. A few triangles shouldnt effect smoothing very much.
Hope this helps

-darrell

[user_deleted]

oops that was a bad link go here
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/

[campbell]

for counts, you can use the Heads Up Display, there is a an extensn hewre to show the triangulated number. use poly cleanup to select out non-quad faces.