Surface definition?

Blitz3D Forums/Blitz3D Beginners Area/Surface definition?

The forum is locked. These are the original blitzbasic.com forums, kept so they can still be read. No new topics, replies or edits can be made here. To join in, head over to the Blitz3D+ forums.

From the help: "Surfaces are sections of mesh. A mesh may contain only one section, or very many"

Does this refer to 'non-connected' mesh elements inside a single mesh file?

Like if I load a .b3d mesh that contains 3 teapots that are not connected to each other in any way. Would that mesh have 3 surfaces? I tested with CountSurfaces and it seems the answer is no to this because I get a count of 1.

Does 'surface' relate to textures in some way? Like multiple texture maps on a given mesh maybe?

If it is defined better somewhere in the help, I have not come across it yet.

Thanks,