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When is it okay to use triangles?
I'm trying to get into making game art and I want to know...when is it okay to use triangles for models intended for animation in a game? I often look at models from released games and get frustrated when I find that none of them seem to conform to a strictly quad polyflow. There are quads in some places I'd expect… -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
To use an example, the models in Street Fighter 4 have quad faceloops in animated areas like on/around the mouth, and around the eyes, as well as the faceloop the goes from the nose and down the cheek. That is, they are triangles, but they were obviously triangulated after the fact. But in other places, basic triangles are… -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
For next gen pipelines, I think most artists these days make the high poly first and don't worry about polycount. Then you retopo or build the low poly to match the high poly, which is where you start thinking about that stuff. For handheld stuff, polycount is still really important and isn't baked from a high poly, so you… -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
Well I'm stuck with free software for now. Blender is what I model in and, when I've finally got all the fundamentals down, Sculptris is what I'll be sculpting in. No Zbrush for me! As I understand it, Sculptris is based entirely around tris, so that shouldn't be a problem for me. I have to admit, I was a little… -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
If your sub-div a master model to bake the normals unto a low. Use polygons as much as possible as when you smooth subdivide, you get strange effects if the model has triangles. Especially if you get into exporting models for say Zbrush or such. Triangles are always apparent. This only applies for the master model. Not the… -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
Thanks alot, all. Does anyone know of any resources that can show me exactly how triangles can affect shading and such? -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
Triangles deform the same way a quad does. A quad is just 2 triangles, that's it. I also find it easier to use quads just because they're quicker to lay down. So, just work with quads, and whenever you feel like you could a tri, use it. -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
When it's in the engine, it's all a bunch of triangles anyway. So there's really nothing stopping you from using nothing but tris if you want to. The main place to use quads is if you're building a mesh to sculpt on. Quads subdivide nicely, and tris do not. If you have tris, you'll get all sorts of pinching when you… -
Re: When is it okay to use triangles?
Also, some apps wont import models with tris, or hate them, like zBrush.
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