Xsi/c4d

[oglu]

it depends on your mashine (RAM) but importing a 5mio poly objekt into xsi is no problem...
but i would say use a dispmap and not the highpoly...

[Per-Anders]

As stated, you don't want to use high density meshes in application, instead you just want that to happen at render time using displacement. XSI's viewports are in general for navigation alone (this is not the same as manipulation speed) between the same speed and 2x as fast as C4D's, in certain cases can be slower (depending on numbers of objects involved).

The reason you don't want to use high density though has little to do with viewport speed and more to do with deformation computation speed and skinning (and pain therein). A low resolution mesh will in general deform far better than a high resolution one with fewer artifacts, folds, collapsing polygons etc. It will also be far far quicker to manipulate in viewport.

What this then comes down to is your preference for rigging, animating and rendering. To determine that you should simply try out the demos for yourself and attempt to bring in a character made in zbrush with a displacement and normal map and rig and render this with SPD, find out which works best for you.

[mr-doOo]

Also, have a look at the Binder plugin!
http://shaders.moederogall.com/

[shokan]

Thanks very much for the advice!

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