PolygonCounter

MaxScript Release 0.31 Beta Source for MAX 3.x (01/31/2000)

MaxScript Release 0.21 Beta Source for MAX 2.x (11/26/1998)

SHORT DESCRIPTION

PolygonCounter is a short utility to let you count both Faces and Polygons (N-Gons) in your scene.
The so-called Polygon Counter Utility shipping with MAX counts only triangle Faces.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

PCounter takes into account edge visibility and assumes that each invisible edge is shared by 2 faces.
It counts the invisible edges and calculates the number of N-gons built of faces sharing these edges.
NOTE that the script is fully commented so you can read it yourself and find out how it works.

FEATURES

Version 0.31 (01/31/2000)

Converted to MacroScript with a floater for MAX 3.x
In addition, Version 0.31 allows counting of selected faces only.
Version 0.21 will still work as Utility in both MAX 2.x and 3.x

Press the [COUNT POLYGONS] button to execute the script.
Use the Use Object Selection checkbox to define the working mode
When the checkbox is checked (default), only selected Meshes will be processed
When the checkbox is unchecked, ALL meshes in the scene will be processed
Only Geometry Objects (which can be converted to EditableMesh) will be processed.
The utility will report
the total number of objects,
the number of meshes processed,
the total number of faces,
the number of selected faces,
the number of polygons built by either all or selected faces.
The utility will NOT check for coplanar faces - any two faces with a common invisible edge will be counted as a polygon.
In the case of open (unshared) invisible edges, there might be slightly incorrect results.

CREDITS

Thanks to Yinako Minako for the idea.

DOWNLOAD PolygonCounter

Version 0.21 Source for MAX 2.x
Version 0.31 Source for MAX 3.x