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For a low poly table, yes, definitely. However there is a balance to be struck between the convenience of a prop that morphs into various shapes and the extra RAM, that is presumably needed to store the deltas.

If I had to fill a restaurant with these, and I had space issues, I'd just do a quick export/import - this reduces the prop to a frozen minimal representation of whatever you morphed it into.

The exp/imp round trip also fixes XYZ coordinate stretch problems that can mess up a procedural shader.

I don't have a good solution to the UV stretch problem and it is certainly the case that if you're using a UV-based shader, going too far in shape changes will harm it.

Which is why I tend to use 100% procedurals.

 

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