#high-poly

It’s called LOW-POLY. Game-optimized. Whatever. Now, I know, I know, “Second Life isn’t a GAAAAAME!” I don’t care whether it’s a game in the traditional sense or not, because graphics cards don’t care and I’m taking my cue here from them.

Why the hell would you make a small piece of furniture with 80000 polygons and present it as something for everyday use instead of a showcase item? That is NOT optimized for real-time rendering. It’s one piece, and the scene the poor CPU and GPU are dealing with has multiple other pieces of furniture (maybe from the same set!), accessories, architecture, and avatars. Any computer that isn’t a fairly high-end gaming computer is going to catch fire. Maybe not directly from the terrible load you dumped onto it, but by the owner after it’s been loading for 15 minutes they're still getting 3.5 frames per second and can’t move.

“But it won’t look as perfect!”

No, it won’t. There’s a reason games and virtual environments aren’t perfectly photorealistic and people use various hacks to hide the flaws, and these reasons go up to eleven when it’s not an actual brand-new video game for people with brand-new gaming computers: everything has to be rendered in real time. You don’t want frame rates so bad it’s visibly choppy or worse, your character/avatar is too lagged to respond to move controls.

Even if your buyer has a high-end system, their guests may not. The people on the virtual land next to them may not. Please at least attempt to optimize your stuff for interactivity. Especially if you’re charging the equivalent of ten dollars USD. There are items out there that look almost as nice that cost a dollar and have less than one twentieth of the polygons. There are items that look good-enough with less than one hundredth. 

Also for a few of you: shame on you for leaving in several thousand polygons that are always hidden from the user! They’re not invisible to computers - the user can’t see them but the renderer behaves as if they can. (rings bell) Shame! Shame! Shame!

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