Even in such cases it doesn't prevent you from having perfect shading without any visible pinching by just editing , transferring vertex normals. Nobody used sub-d topology on static meshes in games before. Only on characters. Now it looks like a must for some uncertain reason. Here is an example how with totally "bad"…
I have a question regarding a specific topology situation. It may be obvious for some, but i've never received an "Official" answer, so i might as well ask. Let's say i wanted to model a circle inside a flat face of a videogame prop. To keep the polycount extremely low i then decide to create an 8 sided circle, like this…