When to use flattenLight

General Discussion
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I’m wondering when is it appropriate to use flattenLight/Medium/Strong on models (nodepaths)?
Is there any general guidance for this?
What exactly does these functions do?

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panda3d.org/reference/python … 4d9fec7401

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Have I understood it correctly that it’s best to use these on static models (nodepaths), and that it may improve the performance on these?

Edit: With static I mean models that don’t have any transformations applied after having added them to render.

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That seems like an overbroad generalization, but it’s not untrue.

David

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Wouldn’t flattenLight() used on characters hurt performance? We are talking about dynamic vetices…?

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No, it won’t, besides the overhead of the function call itself of course.