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Solve

12-29-2003, 05:41 AM

When I say seamless mesh I mean a mesh where all of the edges are connected and there are no "loose" edges or verts.

I tend to use polys where they are needed, especially for non-organic things. Why wrap a mesh all the way around with verts when I only need to use one vert in a single spot.

Is this bad form?

WU2

12-29-2003, 07:14 AM

I guess its dependent on what game you are developing for, but as far as i know it doesn't usually hurt. The only thing that you might have to worry about is weird shadows when lit in-game and obvious smoothing issues..

spm

12-29-2003, 01:55 PM

perhaps this article can help you out:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=112189

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