I have modelled a head (separately from the rest of the body) with the tri poly count showing in the viewport however when I select the head it shows as one object selected but with tri poly count as 0 when looking at the selected objects poly count. (The tri poly count works fine for any other given object selected in the max file). Any ideas how I can find out what the tri poly count is for just the head?  (Im using 3ds Max 2008).

Any help would be brilliant.

Right Click -> Object Properties.  A window pops up showing various bits of info on the selected object (Layer, Material name, polys, vertices, etc.).

3DS Max Design 2011 64-bit - Advantage Pack
Dell Precision T5500, Dual Six Core Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz, nVidia Quadro 5000, 24 GB RAM, Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit
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Hey Chris, ive gone into that dialogue box however it shows all of those properties you listed above but not the poly count, do you have any other suggestions?

Well, the Object Properties doesn’t call it “polys” but “faces”.  So the face count is what you are looking for (see attached).  If that still isn’t showing anything, then I have to ask what kind of object is this?  How is it created?

Another method is to actually render the scene with that object isolated.  I use this when I have renderable splines in the scene, since they are converted to geometry only at render time.  I’ve attached a screen capture of where to find that as well.

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Thanks very much, I isolated the object and rendered it, only then did it show the number of faces - is this number a tri poly count? (As opposed to the normal poly count?) Since we have to know how many tri polys it is. Thanks

Yes, this is the number of triangles being rendered.  To verify, render a primitive box.  You’ll get 12 faces (2 per side), not 6.

3DS Max Design 2011 64-bit - Advantage Pack
Dell Precision T5500, Dual Six Core Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz, nVidia Quadro 5000, 24 GB RAM, Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Thanks Chris, thats been very helpful :)