try not to use TRIANGLE lights?

try not to use TRIANGLE lights?#37720

By iandavis - Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:54 pm

- Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:54 pm #37720

In the announcements there is a recommendation not to use many 'triangles' for lights... I haven't run accross this... does this mean that emitters should be quads? I have been creating all triangle objects for emitters too...

I assumed Maxwell did not SUPPORT quads... but they do for emitters?

Confused I am. Muchly

Ian

If we had just one lowly SuperStarDestroyer, all of earth's problems would rapidly become rather trite. I mean, who worries about war in the middle east when a 1.5km death triangle is in orbit.

#37731

By Mihai - Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:02 pm

- Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:02 pm #37731

I think everything gets triangulated at rendertime so by triangles they mean use as low poly emitters as you can, no matter what shape they are. The more polys an emitter has, the more noise the render will have.

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