Interesting guide to proper topology

Michael Knubben

Sorry for the slightly misleading title, but I thought better of calling it "bad, bad, MICHAEL JACKSON BAD guide to topology by absolute tit".

This was linked to on a blender news-feed, and I couldn't think of anyone more likely to link to this.

http://megamorph.gigacities.net/TopologyGuide/ClassicGameTopology.htm

CRASH!
Hah.

rebb

I only read one sentence on that site and it already cracked me up -> "The emergence of tendencies or requirements towards the strictly quad topology have emerged from the increasing ease quad topology can be derived."

seantree

Wow , wtf is up with that sentence?? I just woke up and it's making my head hurt in so many ways...

Malekyth

"Quad-based meshes are popular these days."

Am I right? I've let my Aspiring Technical Writer-ese degrade a little, but I haven't been seventeen for a looonnng time.

sir-knight

It makes my brain hurt and I've been up for hours.

some poor kid's webpage probably... if it's an adult and aspiring 3d artist page... I dunno what to think.

Wells

this reads as incredibly tongue-in-cheek.

i seriously doubt it's sincerity.





incredibly seriously sincerity.

pliang

Oh please...actually I find it useful.

Rob Galanakis

I read an article yesterday about how inexperienced people with no idea so often make tutorials that other new people learn (improperly) from.

This is the sort of completely mis-applied information someone doing 3D graphics in the early nineties and has been teaching but not learning ever since comes up with.

Michael Knubben

How could it be tongue-in-cheeck, it's called the NO JOKE topology guide!

And here's where it was posted for hundreds of saps to read: http://www.blendernation.com/2008/01/08/the-no-joke-topology-guide-for-serious-3d-modelers/

edit: and going over the other pages of it, I'm afraid this guy *is serious. Wether he's actually a professional remains to be seen, however.

Ghostscape

Yeah this guy looks as serious as he is wrong

Psyk0

"This Guide is FREE for every one TO SHARE. If you don't think something's correct, or have doubts and/or questions about anything, feel free to email me (Megamorph) at this address (click on it). I will review your email and, if necessary, make changes to this website. If I disagree, I will still respond to your email and tell you why."

Tell him how wrong he is, you might get personal lessons from the man himself! .

Joao Sapiro

i would simply send him a link of your avatar and that would be enough !

John Warner

weird. it's such a joke that i thought the whole "no-joke" thing was the give-away.

how old is jr. here? anyone know?

danr

"Generally, the conventions vary by different amounts and strictness of rules. The descriptions are arranged from the most "free" and allowing down to the most restrictive conventions"

You could bend space with language like that

Of course its real. Have you really never come across people who talk and act like that, dressing up minimal and basic knowledge in a mad tangle of self-indulgent bollocks?

greenj2

"The emergence of tendencies or requirements towards the strictly quad topology have emerged..."

Brain hurts...

Rick Stirling

Sticky it.

moose

"Thus, the detail was often simulated by some very optimized and professional-looking texturing, which often included really cheap effects like lighting and glossiness baked to one single color map."

haha yay cheap effects! can't tell if thats cheap as in memory cheap, or cheap as in lens flare + checkerboard cheap.

sir-knight

ESL baby... all the way.


that or babelfish.

leilei

[ QUOTE ]
Original 3D games were designed to work on computers with no hardware graphics accelerators (also known as video cards.)

[/ QUOTE ]
ROFL

Mark Dygert

Anyone else turned on by this?

notman

Makes me think of goatse (unfortunately).

Jarrod1937

That article is so very wrong on oh so many levels...