potentially the most confusing part of this creature is that I am told it has 12 polygonshttps://twitter.com/lowpolyanimals/status/1334950609217351681 …
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It's a plane (flat/not 3D), and it's the Normal that is facing the viewer. Vertices are the 4 points that make the plane. Normals determine which side of the Face is forward (renders texture). Correct on black being transparent. The material would apply an alpha value to black.
to the surrounding black* using the alpha layer of the texture.
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