ChalklYne

What is he talking about at 10:52?! I plan on doing exactly that?

I believe he's talking about real time optimization think of it as reverse tessalation vs. discrete LOD (like in JA) where the models are swapped and don't require as much CPU or RAM (at least in 1996). With Quake 3 they were restricted by the vertex animation system, every player model has its animations baked into the md3 as opposed to using a universal animation file, which would've been another hurdle.

Ahh i see. I thought it was pertaining to us