Any suggestions on the Decimate modifier?

posted to: Fill Retopology

Hi Jonathan,

just wanted to ask about the Decimate modifier, I see  it all over Youtube, people keep (ab)using it in all the "game asset creation" tutorials and just wanted to hear your opinion on that particular modifier.

From what I can tell, the topology it creates is pretty messed up, I am not sure if it is worth the time to clean up the topology, or is it better to just do everything by hand from scratch (like in this course).


Any suggestions?

Thanks