Teeth! - Separate meshes or not?

rollin

I've seen now multiple instance where either one or the other was used -

and I'm wondering what reasons do you have for picking either one or the other.

For clarification: I'm talking about the lowpoly.

For now I see primarily these pros and cons

• baking can be super easy when all teeth are separate objects and are name-matched between HP and LP but the setup is more time consuming
• texturing is also easier from the masking point of view
• though you get possible aliasing and less smooth transitions if the teeth are separate
• Edit: you need a higher polycount to precisely model the intersection of teeth and gum
• Edit2: of course if there is a need to remove a teeth dynamically / via animation you have to go with separated ones

Eric Chadwick

How low are you talking? A lowpoly example down at the bottom here

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/FaceTopology

rollin

https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2766517#Comment_2766517

That's actually a good example how you can get away with a very low polycount if you have no separate teeth!