Report statistics for all on-screen geometry #69887

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Campbell Barton · 2019-09-15T00:36:07+02:00

Campbell Barton commented

2019-09-15 00:36:07 +02:00

This task proposes to ignore instancing when reporting statistics.

Currently statistics ignores instanced duplicates.

I'm not sure if this is desirable behavior, because for many use cases
the final poly-count is significant:

Rendering
Polygon budgets for 3rd party engines.
General performance, since instances add overhead.

The down-side is that there are cases where you might not need to
be aware of the extra geometry created by instancing - for file-size,
or in cases the instances end up not being duplicated in memory.

Posting this since there is a patch to show geometry for selection
that doesn't make much sense with the current behavior - see: D5762: Show the number of verts & faces for selected objects in object mode

This task proposes to ignore instancing when reporting statistics. Currently statistics ignores instanced duplicates. I'm not sure if this is desirable behavior, because for many use cases the final poly-count is significant: - Rendering - Polygon budgets for 3rd party engines. - General performance, since instances add overhead. The down-side is that there _are_ cases where you might not need to be aware of the extra geometry created by instancing - for file-size, or in cases the instances end up not being duplicated in memory. ---- Posting this since there is a patch to show geometry for selection that doesn't make much sense with the current behavior - see: [D5762: Show the number of verts & faces for selected objects in object mode](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D5762)

Campbell Barton commented

2019-09-15 00:36:07 +02:00

Added subscriber: @ideasman42

blender-admin commented

2019-09-15 00:36:07 +02:00

#95958 was marked as duplicate of this issue

blender-admin commented

2019-09-15 00:36:07 +02:00

#83812 was marked as duplicate of this issue

blender-admin commented

2019-09-15 00:36:07 +02:00

#71020 was marked as duplicate of this issue

William Reynish was assigned by Campbell Barton

2019-09-15 01:49:16 +02:00

William Reynish commented

2019-09-15 13:14:10 +02:00

In my opinion, we could show both. If we move scene stats to either:

1: The viewport
2: A 'Statistics' panel in Properties > Scene

This would give us loads more space to add way more scene info, which also doesn't have to be persistent when you don't need it.

In my opinion, we could show both. If we move scene stats to either: 1: The viewport 2: A 'Statistics' panel in Properties > Scene This would give us loads more space to add way more scene info, which also doesn't have to be persistent when you don't need it.

noki paike commented

2019-09-15 17:29:14 +02:00

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noki paike commented

2019-09-15 17:29:14 +02:00

it would be great if it reported the actual data + the instantiated ones, highlighting somehow that they are instantiated and not "real"

Damian commented

2019-09-16 14:02:52 +02:00

Added subscriber: @DamianWinnichenko

Damian commented

2019-09-16 14:02:52 +02:00

For the future implementation of statistics, I would suggest showing vert\poly counts in outliner.
Also, outliner might have shown a distinction between real geometry\collection and instanced one.

For the future implementation of statistics, I would suggest showing vert\poly counts in outliner. Also, outliner might have shown a distinction between real geometry\collection and instanced one.

Philipp Oeser commented

2019-10-23 11:23:34 +02:00

Added subscribers: @AlbertoVelazquez, @lichtwerk, @MarcinTwarowski

Alberto Velázquez commented

2019-10-23 23:43:22 +02:00

Yes, it must be by default. Few days ago I had the bad experience of don't take this in account and that my project with good polycount was out of specs only when I export the meshes...

I don't see reason to have the option to see the polycount of only not instance objects. In any case the user only will want to know the polycount of a specific object and he can see only with select that object and edit.

Yes, it must be by default. Few days ago I had the bad experience of don't take this in account and that my project with good polycount was out of specs only when I export the meshes... I don't see reason to have the option to see the polycount of only not instance objects. In any case the user only will want to know the polycount of a specific object and he can see only with select that object and edit.

Chris Kohl commented

2020-05-23 12:28:39 +02:00

Added subscriber: @ckohl_art

Philipp Oeser commented

2020-12-16 16:59:18 +01:00

Added subscriber: @temeddix

Dong-Hyun Kim commented

2020-12-17 10:02:13 +01:00

I also encountered a situation where many particle instances makes Blender crash while rendering. This was because I could not predict the polycount because instances were not included in the statistics. It would be nice to see statistics take instances into account.

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Lino Thomas commented

2021-04-23 08:58:43 +02:00

Added subscriber: @LinoThomas

Lino Thomas commented

2021-04-23 08:58:43 +02:00

I can attest, that this feature would be greatly appreciated. I do struggle to keep an eye on poly budgets when using instanced geometry, which i heavily rely on.

Kenji Aito commented

2021-04-23 09:48:57 +02:00

Added subscriber: @kenjii

Kenji Aito commented

2021-04-23 09:48:57 +02:00

Yes, we could use that... a direct reading of the "real/total" polycount :

In #69887#776937, @DamianWinnichenko wrote:
For the future implementation of statistics, I would suggest showing vert\poly counts in outliner.
Also, outliner might have shown a distinction between real geometry\collection and instanced one.

Yes, we could use that... a direct reading of the "real/total" polycount : > In #69887#776937, @DamianWinnichenko wrote: > For the future implementation of statistics, I would suggest showing vert\poly counts in outliner. > Also, outliner might have shown a distinction between real geometry\collection and instanced one.

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lictex_ commented

2022-01-10 13:45:31 +01:00

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Omar Emara commented

2022-02-22 15:45:18 +01:00

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Report statistics for all on-screen geometry #69887