Cylinder Caps Question

GavinUnit

Sorry for making a whole new post for this, but I wasn't sure where I should ask it if not here...
I'm just working on cleaning up my model before texturing, and just yesterday I heard one of my teachers saying that it is far better to cap a cylinder with parallel quads than to tie them all off to the center, like they are when you create one.
He was saying something about how real time renderers handle this more quickly or something...
Is this standard? I ask because it's the first I've heard of it.

Thanks

Sean VanGorder

Yeah, this is pretty much the standard way to go about closing off low poly cylinders. It has to do with the way the real time renderer will triangulate the faces of the mesh. But instead of me trying to explain it, take a look at this really informational article that explains efficiency in modeling. The part about capping cylinders is about half way down.

http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf2.html

GavinUnit

Wow, thanks a bunch Sean! This is an awesome article.
Just what I needed to see