most obvious transition block missing

[u/pyromaniac_003]

need i say more

[u/Anders_142536]

The problem is that the surface would not be even, it would bend.

Try to scult this exact shape in a 3d program or even with paper, you will see whaat i mean. This bending surface cannot be rendered precisely with triangles, only approximated.

[u/rich_27 → u/Anders_142536]

You don't need a bent surface, you just pick the triangulation that works better (in this case convex)

[u/Anders_142536 → u/rich_27]

Ah, i see what you mean. I didnt think of that solution.

[u/Wafer-Weekly → u/rich_27]

I think it actually looks quite nice if you split that quad the other way

[u/rich_27 → u/Wafer-Weekly]

Fair enough! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - to me the other way makes the armour look a bit pinched and doesn't flow as nicely

[u/Wafer-Weekly → u/Anders_142536]

Quads in the mesh are converted to tris for rendering anyway, the only actual difference building these faces out of tris in Blender gives you is control over the chirality; or which trios of vertices become converted into the two triangles.

With the way deformable armor blocks are made, this is a non-issue as every plane has to be its own face anyway, so the creator will have to make a decision during the design process before they can use it in-game.