Show the polycount of selected objects in object mode

Question

How to show the polycount statistics (faces, tris, etc) of selected objects in object mode? The bar on the bottom of screen shows polycount of the whole scene:

I know I can switch to edit mode and select the whole object to view its polycount, but there are two problems: 1) what if I want to know the combined polycount of two or more objects? 2) When there is a Decimate Modified applied, edit mode doesn't have the information of final result.

Answer 1

It's a workaround, but you can temporary hide every other object.

Select the desired object(s), press Ctrl+i to invert the selection, then H to hide : you can now read the statistics you want. Once done, Alt+H to un-hide.

Answer 2

You can write a script to output the informations you need in the console :

import bpy

verts, edges, polys = 0, 0, 0
dg = bpy.context.evaluated_depsgraph_get()  # Getting the dependency graph
for obj in bpy.context.selected_objects:

    obj = obj.evaluated_get(dg)
    # This gives the evaluated version of the object. Aka with all modifiers and deformations applied.  
    mesh = obj.to_mesh()  # Turn it into the mesh data block we want

    print(' Object :', obj.name)
    print('  Vertices :', len(mesh.vertices))
    print('  Edges    :', len(mesh.edges))
    print('  Polygons :', len(mesh.polygons))
    verts += len(mesh.vertices)
    edges += len(mesh.edges)
    polys += len(mesh.polygons)
print(f'Total : {verts} Verts, {edges} Edges, {polys} Polys')

I tried it with 3 objects and subdiv, decimate, build modifiers (not applied) :

The downside is you have to run the script each time you do it and check the console. With a bit of effort you can transform it into a custom operator and write the information somewhere in the 3D view.

Also I think it is not very efficient so it may slow down on heavy models.

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Answer 3

It's a workaround, but you can temporary hide every other object.

Select the desired object(s), press Ctrl+i to invert the selection, then H to hide : you can now read the statistics you want. Once done, Alt+H to un-hide"

Actually there's a faster way ive just found out, is simply press Shift + H to hide every other objects