Texture mapping

[Philippe Hurbain]

Just my 2cts:

For flat surfaces LDraw geo should be 'better' unless it generates a billion polygons.
For curved surfaces (minifig heads etc) textures are 99% of the time better as it prevents the 'crumbled paper' effect when doing smoothing.

I would qualify that on flat surfaces and say that textures are better if there is a gradient, since LDraw geometry can't do a good job with gradients.

Completely agree with both. Ldraw geometry can also look good (better?) on low curvature parts like bow top plates.
If only the Part tracker (or any other suitable repository?) was updated to receive texture files...!!!