Where do you see the benefit of decimated meshes?

stwbcsuv_12364ebef4

I have a V4 model with a lower LOD, when I select it I see this change in the viewport when that LOD is selected but the scene info still states the model contains the original number of faces. Will I see performance gains in the view-port by using this lower LOD? Will this reduce my file size or does this only benefit exported models ?

Richard Haseltine

Using LoD is mainly for the benefit in rendering - it sends less data to 3Delight - though it may be useful in the viewport, I've not rally had a chance to test that.