I have one product I bought in this marketplace that has 245 000 polygons. It loads and renders fine on my main machine. I have my own product that has 104 000 polygons, and on a Pentium III, 768 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM machine it takes two minutes to load, but once it's loaded it renders in Poser 4 with one light and shadows in 42 seconds (500x500), which is perfectly acceptable. It loads in six seconds on a Pentium IV, 3.2 Mhz, 2 Gig RAM machine. But I have a model made in Lightwave that is 550 000 polygons, and even though I can load it, I can't really do much with it. Sometimes the polygon count is not so much the problem as the texture files. Poser will lock up because of texture files that are too large rather than too many polygons. But all that said, the less polygons, the faster it renders, and when someone is doing animations, they appreciate low polygon modelling.

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