"Less triangles means more pixels saved and therefore less to draw!"

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The documentation for Polygon Sprites states “Less triangles means more pixels saved and therefore less to draw!”, but their example clearly shows a sprite with many more triangles (2 vs ~19). It avoids delving into the details, but in this particular example, an excess of 17 triangles which saves drawing ~6000 pixels is a performance saver, correct? In what cases would a polygon sprite be less efficient? Is this just for sprites with lots of outer transparent pixels?

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Yes, I think this is a poor choice of words. @ricardo can you suggest better wording here?

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It should read:

  • more triangles -> more pixels saved
  • or the inverse: less triangles -> more pixels drawn
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I will correct and update.