The breakdown:
cyn-prod.com/stylized-ref...

It feels okay, but I'm feeling the "addictive game design" fatigue setting in.
It seems that we are figuring out how to make games addictive without making them very deep, innovative or interesting
I fear it will make it more difficult for games that don't rely on a constant dopamine drip

That's so true. Most people wouldn't consider that working in a frozen pizza factory or being a private chef are the same job, and yet "game dev" somehow encompasses an equally great range of experiences 😱

That's so funny, reminds me of a mechanic we put in Tandem: a Tale of Shadows back in the day, we had these pink cubes that wanted nothing but eat each other to make platforms ! Love this!

Hence, some LODs really don't have much polycount difference, but will be displayed differently in the outlines, avoiding noisy / all black detail further in the landscape

In Ballistic.exe, LODs are used not so much for performance reasons - but instead to manage the amount of detail present in the outlines.

Looks like a great choice, I'll give it a go thank you!

And one last example with the vertex info