**vilters wrote
**Displacement maps will raise topology, = correct, but it WILL NOT increase polycount.
Polygon count stays exactly the same as before.

 

**bagginsbill wrote
**Poser can fully displace a single quad polygon to any degree of detail you want - it uses REYES, which means micro-polygons are built FOR YOU, during rendering.

 

so then the REYES micro-polygon count is razed then. So if I word it that way ? is every one happy ?

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And we are both correct, LOL.

Make / build a single polygon. A simple square, 4 vertex at the corners, 4 edges,  and a single face, you have ONE single sided polygon. => Next, UV_unwrap it, and you have a UV_Map for that single polygon.
Now texture it with an 4096x4096 texture map, and add a 4096x4096 pixel displacement map.

**What is happening at render time?
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You render your single polygon, with its texture, with the displacemnt map, and if you did the UV_unwrapping correctly, you have 4096x4096  pixels "acting" as 4096x4096 micropolygons.

But?

• The actual polygon count is still 1 (one)
• Rendered are the 4096x4096 pixels from the texture, pushed in 3D by the 4096x4096 displacement map.
• Result => "Visually" you have 4096x3096 pixels "acting" as micropolygons.

Pffft, what an explanation, but polygon count is still 1 (one)

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