Good modelling techinques & vertice counts

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Hi all,

I’ve imported a lightwave model into blender… see this thread…
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=167500

The model is composed of 130 objects, and over 8,800 vertices. I am going to have add more vertices to correct topology problems with the mesh I spoke about in that thread, so here’s my questions…

Should I seek to reduce the amount of vertices? I will be adding more while converting this to a mesh with good topology for blender. So how many vertices are too many for a rendered animation? (I know, depends upon how mush horsepower your puter has and you can fake stuff like backgrounds with compositing) But what’s a good detailed model’s vertice count? Where should I be at for a jet airplane??

Thanks for any and all help,
Randy

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Technically, less vertices is always better. In reality, 8800 vertices is nothing. You can render models with hundreds of thousands of 'm in real-time. The problem isn’t so much how many vertices/triangles you have, but how high your Subsurf modifier is set (since it quadruples those values).