Did Blizzard Forget

[heyiamdan]

Did Blizzard forget how to draw a circle?

If you look at the Gobin mount.. why couldn't they just make the wheelse circular instead of a decagon?

[SuperflyForever]

Because creating a circular shape for a model can take up more polygons than probably the whole of the trike itself.

[Addiena]

Did Blizzard forget how to draw a circle?

If you look at the Gobin mount.. why couldn't they just make the wheelse circular instead of a decagon?

No such thing as a circle where polygons are involved unless you have some hefty hardware to do the calculations and rendering.

Performance wise .. polygons are easier to render and don't require a lot of power to draw them.

It's a cost vs performance issue here.

[Paladinwtf]

It takes squares to make Circles. Now you have both! Enjoy!

[Addiena]

It takes squares to make Circles. Now you have both! Enjoy!

Actually it takes triangles to make the shapes ...

[Deleted]

Just shut up and enjoy the mount, Alliance doesn't even get one!

[Mossmantle]

Have you played Desert Katamari in Uldum? I don't think they've forgotten how to make circles, or spheres in that case.
Blame Goblins for not knowing proper design of wheels...

But seriously, it's the polys.

[Drakhar]

Simple answer here. The Goblins needed to cut costs, mounts are much cheaper these days.

[sscavenger]

They will soon, gnomes riding worgen... PLAYING CARD GAMES!!!!!!!!

[Pickwickman]

They dont want it, in my opinion mostly because it wouldn't fit with the goblin race and their clunkiness and the way that they want the at for their game.

and it costs your pc more processing work. Abbysimally so, but still, it takes up some more processing power, which will make people on low end machines cry. And most of the players use lower end machines.

Also, less production cost, its a business baby, they need to make cuts in everything they can to get the most amount of profit. Or the shareholders will q_q.

[conscript]

They will soon, gnomes riding worgen... PLAYING CARD GAMES!!!!!!!!

This comment frightens me. There isn't a Worgen mount from the TCG is there? Be it an actual worgen or a thematically worgen mount that they reserved for that stupid TCG would anger me so much.

[Deleted]

wow I'm surprised at the accurate/specific responses here, I thought I was alone as a modeller (but some information can be picked up from the model viewer)

what they said ^^ don't assume Blizzard can't make circles, it's a click and drag in every modelling software to my knowledge (cylinders)

[Deleted]

Its actualy for lore reasons. Goblins factor out the edges to save on manufactoring costs.

[Howard Moon]

Did Blizzard forget how to draw a circle?[/IMG]

You noticed this NOW? Every single "round" structure in the game (that is not simply a texture image) is a polygon. It's how they speed up performance.

[Bluey111]

think about it, have you seen any wheels(or even anything thats suppose to be a circle shape), at all, in world of warcraft that are perfectly circlular? it takes an extreme amount of polygon work to get it to look a bit more round, and even then it still wouldnt be circular

[Selxxa]

I'm skeptical about how much more performance power it would take to make the wheels appear less square.

Can a 3D modeler answer if this is true or not?

[frejborg]

Can you draw a freehand circle? I don't think so.

[Chireru93]

No such thing as a circle where polygons are involved unless you have some hefty hardware to do the calculations and rendering.

Performance wise .. polygons are easier to render and don't require a lot of power to draw them.

It's a cost vs performance issue here.

I think a lot of ppl skipped over your post Addiena =(

yes guys, probably a big reason is because circles-cost-processing-power. if they were to make everything with the gfx capabilities of CoD: Black Ops, then count that with the 12 million subscribers they have and you got a whole lotta nothing..literally, the wow client would crash..and before anyone says "well blizz should fix their servers then cause CoD can do it QQ" yes but CoD I bet isn't as extensive as wow, you can beat a CoD game in a couple days technically wow never ends never runs out of content unless you've done everything, and even then patches are every couple months with new content compared to a new game every couple years. the game code itself is expansive and at the time was so intuitive to make wow work together so seamlessly it didn't matter as much if there was lower-tier graphics than other games.

in short, it doesn't matter, it's close enough and saves processing power.

[esmifra]

The creativity some people have in their QQ keeps me astonished..
Really!

Freakin amazing!

[GennGreymane]

just shut up and enjoy the mount, alliance doesn't even get one!

we just retarded looking worgen wild running