Hello! I’m fairly well into the 3D journey, and have been wanting to make some assets for the marketplace. One thing that I keep wondering though when I come to optimizing assets for my own game, is whether I should worry more about objects having opacity or high poly count to make up for the opacity.
I’m specifically thinking about foliage, so plants, leaves, flowers, etc. Is it more performance friendly to model the leaves to fit the shape of a leaf, rather than using using a plane with a leaf texture on it? I could see that using opacity with big plants, that require lots of leaves, could be more performance friendly, but for smaller plants I assume it won’t be?
I’m going in the stylized direction with the plant assets as well so I feel like I have more freedom when it comes to the texturing part if I model a leaf, rather than using a texture on a plane.
But just in general, I’m wondering when opacity could be better than a “high” polycount that tries to substitute for the opacity texture?