Preview Detail vs High Detail - Will I get the same result when simplifying?

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So basically, in Preview Detail, my model comes to 6 million triangles. It looks kinda rubbish tbh but I was wondering, if I render my model in High Detail first and THEN simplify down to 6 million triangles…would it look better? Would the mesh be more accurate overall or is that simply how it will always look at 6 million triangles?

I don’t want to waste days rendering something in High Detail if Preview Detail is how it is going to look anyway!

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Hi danwilkie92,

the Preview mode is mostly created from sparse point cloud, with High detail it is form depth maps. 

It is better to simplify from High detailed mesh to a smaller one, but it is good to do it using incremental steps (50%). You don’t need to compute High detail, in a lot of cases Normal is enough.