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dooki · 20th April 2008, 15:09

Hey all,

OK, sorry for the noob question here but: What is the importance of apps handling n-gons?

- Are n-gons poly's with more than 4 sides?
- Is it a situation that some apps cannot handle dealing with n-gons and that they convert to tri-polys or something? If so, does this conversion mess up renderings or something?

Thanks!

-Dooki

20th April 2008, 15:09	#1 (permalink)
dooki Box modeling Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 268	N-gons?? Hey all, OK, sorry for the noob question here but: What is the importance of apps handling n-gons? - Are n-gons poly's with more than 4 sides? - Is it a situation that some apps cannot handle dealing with n-gons and that they convert to tri-polys or something? If so, does this conversion mess up renderings or something? Thanks! -Dooki __________________ PC/ P4/ /XP/ 2.4GHz/ 512RAM/ ATI Radeon 9550/256RAM Macbook Pro/Leopard/2.4GHz/4RAM/NVIDIA 8600M (256MB) eMac/ G4/Tiger/ 1.25 GHz/ 768RAM/ ATI Radeon 9200