question about geometry

breakneck

hey all, i'm building a simple asset of a housing for a dumpster. heres a pic:


all the posts and the walls are all different pieces of geometry. it is going to be one texture map and i'm planning to add it to a game engine. my question is this: is it ok having seperate pieces or does it need to be sold geometry? just lookin for some input before i continue. thanks

warby

you should definitely merge all those objects together to make em one batch ( by that i don't mean booling them together or any alteration to the polys to make em all connect) and apply only one material to all of it.

breakneck

cool, yea i'll combine all object for sure. i was just trying to save my poly count by not actually attaching all the pieces into one solid piece.

MoP

As long as they all have the same material / texture, you shouldn't have to merge them, any good game engine will optimise batches like that automatically.

Wells

having them as disparate boxes is fine, you don't need to have one contiguous mesh.

breakneck

cool thanks guys. I've been reading up on the unreal editor and there was a lot of talk about overlapping geometry bsp brushes causing weird hall of mirrors effects and i didn't know if that applied to static meshes as well.
heres what i'm making just to show it off.