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BLB, quads or tris?
Demian:
I am quite sure BLBs use quads. If you really want to know, contact Destiny.
Marcem:
It's quads. Look at any special blb and there are 4 coordinates for each face.
soba:
Yndaaa claims ingame they are rendered in triangles
Demian:
--- Quote from: soba on October 25, 2011, 10:57:40 AM ---Yndaaa claims ingame they are rendered in triangles
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Purely a guess, but I'd say all 3D engines render 3D models as triangles.
Wedge:
These images might help a bit, I'll have to see if I can get any better ones later. From them it looks like they're quads, but it's quite possible that all the editing I did obscured the diagonals. Interiors and dts shapes are definitely rendered with tris though.
--- Quote from: Demian on October 25, 2011, 11:17:52 AM ---Purely a guess, but I'd say all 3D engines render 3D models as triangles.
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Nope, there's lots of ways to render 3D. Off the top of my head you could also use voxels, raytracing, or vectors (think of old arcade games).