Polygon count

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What would be a comfortable polygon count for both working with in an editor and for doing final render? For example, if your just doing animation you probably are only going to work with a low resolution object and only need to see a higher resolution object when you model / sculpt or do your final render.

Its all very scene specific but I would guess 100k would cover most animation sessions, chunks of about a million for most modeling sessions and probably upwards of 10-100 million for rendering. It all really has to do with your trying to do.

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just experiment, if your computer becomes laggy, turn the subserf/ multiturs down:)

try to ceep the total polycount as lo as possible without affecting the final render, more polys takes longer to render

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the lower the better for working with. its all reletive to what you are doing.

sometimes you can achieve the cube you want with 6 polygons (or 12) and sometimes you need a few thousand to get the cube you want.

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Actually interested in what you would want to work with rather than what you would have to work with, within reason of course. The numbers I gave I think are about accurate but I could be very off.

I’m doing software development in the field of modeling and animation and wanted to set targets for me to reach with my rendering engine - on a medium end 2k workstation (GeForce 8800GTX or Ultra basically). Both real time workspace rendering and final rendering.