How to find the poly count of a model?

liam887

Is there a way to do it in kerk?

Khai

the export to Kerk tri's everything as part of the process.. so it's only accurate to Kerky

thomthom

"SU2KT: 1 textures and model exported in 2m 7s. Triangles = 570282."
I was thinking maybe that is the poly count? Anyway if anybody can help let me know ok, thanks!

That sounds like the polygon count.

Though, if weære going to get semantic about this "polygon count" doesn't stricktly means number of triangles. A multisided face would go under the definition of polygon. But in 3D, people often men triangle count when they say "polygon count".

pilou

Maybe this : Import as DAE format and reload it in Meshlab free

liam887

Ok ive done that now how do I find out what it is in meshlab?

pilou

Menu View: SHow Info Pane
I don't know exactly but as soon as you load something you can see that
with that you can make a little average

liam887

Ha cheers dont know how I missed that!
Got it now thanks for your help

Edit: Exported to 3ds and blender says "Triangles: 581462" hmm maybe cos its a different format!

pilou

Depending of so many things possible
Automatic cleaning, quadrangulate, welding common segments etc ...

Gaieus

KMZ also triangulates and you can re-import kmz files now to SU. Then under Model info > Statistics, you should be able to see the rough number. But indeed it can depend on the way it is triangulated and it does not necessarily triangulate it the same way su2kt does (although both su2kt and the kmz export will produce xml files)

liam887

Yeah I noticed the xml file for kerk was 131MB where as the 3ds was 59MB, the original SU file was 32MB. Its obvious different formats and exporters triangulate the model differently.