putrdude opened this issue on Jun 12, 2015 ยท 27 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 13 June 2015 at 8:30 AM
Don't turn on Smooth Polygons unless you know you have props that need it and won't look right without it. For some situations, subdivision will be better a better choice and is an opt-in setting, rather than Smooth Polygons which will require that you go around turning it off in dozens of places.
My renders above do not have it on. The last render was 13.0 seconds. This render has Smooth Polygons turned on and now the time is 23.1 seconds - a lot longer for nothing. (No visual benefit that I can see)
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)