In reading this thread what strikes me foremost is that you seem incredibly caught up on techniques and methods for doing things, as if knowing this stuff will make you better at art. It won't. I was like this too when i was starting out. I used to dissect pictures and imagine what brushes people used and the order they…
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat3d/main.html Click on the example PDF and you can see it in action. You can navigate around the 3d model within the PDF. Pretty sweet I say.
Hi, Besides Sub-D requirement, is there any benefit to using more quads on a cap? For example: The model is intended to be used in-game (on less than powerful hardware).
Soo.. the VRAM thing is slightly misleading although it is still a big win and a great idea to use RVT. The static memory footprint of the assets that render into the RVT doesn't change - not a huge problem, but worth knowing that stuff doesn't completely evaporate. You need to load all the high mips / models etc. at the…