Are non-box trigger volumes (Cylinder/Sphere) significantly more expensive to use?

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@RhythmScript;180029

What platform are you targeting? Vertices are basically free on PC, what with modern GFX card technology; I mean, that’s an exaggeration, but taking 24 vertices for a cylinder and multiplying it by 50 cylinders is, what, 1200 verts total? That’s freaking NOTHING. Especially since these meshes don’t contribute draw calls, you can just pump them into the level and pretty much never sweat it. 1200 verts is like, a single piece of irrelevant scenery in modern games.

Maybe that isn’t true for mobile, I couldn’t say. But for a conventional system, adding 1200 verts to a level map is basically nothing.

Thanks, that’s quite relieving to hear I’m targeting PC indeed.

I think I’ll go ahead with using brush based trigger volumes for most of my volume needs. The amount of flexibility I get from being able to choose brush builder types and move vertices around makes it so easy and convenient to use during level design.