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1. Re: Stupid question about modeling and vertex count

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Dec 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yep, for example [ame] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_S1INdEmdI[/ame] More here http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Subdivision_Surface_Modeling

2. Re: Stupid question about modeling and vertex count

   

   Reply by SuperFranky · Dec 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   You're going to get shading errors and all kinds of problems with the 3rd example. Try to unwrap it, normal map it and put it in your engine of choice and you'll see.

3. Re: Stupid question about modeling and vertex count

   

   Reply by RN · Dec 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   In the context of long thin triangles, it refers to the waste of shading processing when you have a surface that's not triangulated with care. As a necessary step, a GPU will process triangles in a way that is efficient when rendering the interior of triangles, but not so efficient when rendering the edges of triangles.…