Tag: poly

Creating background assets that aren't the primary focus in a game, can be pretty time-consuming for something that no-one really looks at, but they do add to the atmosphere of the game. Here's a quick way of creating a simple item that could be used as metal scaffolding, a tower or even a simple bridge in less than 5 minutes, using basic polygon modelling tools.

Have you ever been modelling and you accidentally hit the tab or shift-tab key changing your model from regular faces, to Sub-D, or Pixar-SubS without realising it?

If half your model was in P-Sub and the other half, in Sub-D, could you tell which was which?

Well there is a way, even if it is very subtle.

Just run your mouse over the affected polys and you'll see that when you pre-select the different types of subdivision surfaces that, sub-d is shaded purple, regular faceted polygons (faces) are shaded blue, and P-Subs are shaded green.

I wish they were a little more pronounced though.

• Sub-Ds - Subdivision Surface smoothed polygons.
• Faces - regular standard unsmoothed polygon faces.
• P-Subs - Pixar Catmull-Clark smoothed polygons.

Edit: As I mentioned earlier, the colors are quite subtle. But when I went to change them from their default settings to much darker colors, via > Preferences > Display > Colors >Selection Rollovers, you can still barely discern any difference.