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Constructing a mesh for better deformation

There are many ways to construct a mesh, but if you want it to deform well, there are certain topologies that will give you better results.

Just go and read what Ancient-Pig has written in his Ancient-Pig’s basic deformation tutorial. He’s nailed it.

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Rick: I'll have a look at see what info I can dig up. Offhand I couldn't really say....
tsne16487: Hi Rick, I was wondering if you could let me know what sort of poly limits were used for the in game cars in GTA IV, were they full modeled meshes, or were some parts instanced, with shared textures/g...
Coridium: Thanks for the info mate!...
Rick: Hey Chris - it's quite difficult to list the GTA4 polycounts and textures because of the way the characters are constructed in multiple parts to create as much variation as possible. Generally I'd...
Coridium: Hi Rick, Thanks for the interesting article. Like others would be great to see a similar article on Environments, but I realise that its even harder cause of the differnce between unique geometry a...

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