Explode Mesh?

DDuckworth

I was reading up on the polycount wiki about occlusion baking and Joe "Earthquake" Wilson mentioned "exploding" a mesh, the high poly and the low poly before baking, I have tried finding the answer to this but I have no idea what exploding the mesh means.

Does this mean to scale it up or separate the object into it's individual faces? That's the best I could figure out but I don't see why you would do this before baking.

Here is the link to the article in question.

Thanks!

Ben Apuna

The picture in the first post of this thread illustrates this better than any words I could write.

Info from the wiki on the subject.

DDuckworth

Ohhhh, okay so if I only have 1 piece then I don't even have to bother with that, I wonder why these threads didn't show up when I searched the word "explode" on the forums sorry for the extra thread and thanks for your help!

DDuckworth

Lol I seem to have a bad habit of apologizing! Thanks again though