The reason I avoided automated mesh optimizations is because of how much it adds runtime costs on model manipulations. Even though there is a variety of methods with more or less costs, even the fastest does add a substantial amount. Blackbox tries to keep that experience more fluid, and rather relies on the artist to sufficiently optimize the grid manually by multi-resolution construction. The poly count of that is less ideal than by auto mesh methods that go beyond cube form. So it's a question of framerate costs in that versus latency on model changes. Add to that, I've grown to like the current cubic organization of the grid composition from a work perspective. The plans on how to optimize memory differently aims to keep that. And rather have artifacts compensated for at no costs by raw precision range. Balancing all these considerations is a difficult question. For the time being I will keep going with the current approach, to concentrate building the rest of the core features. At some point though, when seeing it all play out, a decision must be made which kind of costs we'd rather settle with, or which kind of costs gets along best with the specific case of application. Maybe even multiple render modes for choice. Hrrm.