Wednesday, 15 October 2008

An offence has been committed

I am preparing to move on to the mapping phase so thought this would be a good time to make sure I was happy with the mesh as any changes made later would mean lots of changes to mesh and map alike.

This was the scene of the crime, a small pinching like under my chin, it looked like a spot. I had a look over the problem and the mesh appeared to be in a funny shape around the area and I could not figure out why, when I moved the vertices near the area they were not helping to solve the problem. Then I decided to move the vertices near the offender and it turned out one of them was not connected to its partner. The offending vertex was immediately arrested and tried in a court of Max where it was found guilty being a rouge vertex and sentenced to a severe target welding, it is now living in a happy symbiotic relationship with its neighbour. In a statement to the local vertices chief inspector coos said “some times these offenders quietly integrate in to our society and live out normal live but the will cause us trouble at some point. If we are constantly on the look out perpetrators will be discovered and rehabilitated and we can all live as one smooth mesh”.

In retrospect, I believe it is important to always be mindful of problems but it is easy to get lost in the task at hand. This problem has lay hidden away for 2 solid days and it is only as I decided to give the mesh a full medical before moving on that the problem was spotted. I think a complete review of each stage upon its completion, before moving on, is vitally important to ensure you don’t run in to serious trouble further down the road.

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