People have been crying for a chamfer that works on quads instead of triangles for years. Almost as long as an Optimizer that works on quads instead of triangles. Chamfer is ok when used in pretty specific ways, like on an entire loop or where there isn't a pole... ok yea chamfer just sucks, ha! But one smart polycounter…
I can see the low poly cage and the high poly when working with turbosmooth. It's exactly the same as the Subdivision Surface in the Editable poly in this regard.
for subdivision have "NURMS Toggle (Poly)" bound to the ~ key so i can easily toggle it on and off. really after a few days of doing subd work, you get a feel for it and know what things will look like subdivided and smoothed before doing so. if you have problems finding that command it is in the main UI group under teh…
That just shows you how much sub-d work I do these days=P I must have been thinking of Edit Poly (modifier) + Turbosmooth, which doesn't show the cage by default. You have to toggle on and off show cage, then if you want to see just the low poly you have to toggle off turbosmooth, which oddly enough I have a script for…
Perna, that was very nicely put. And while (I believe) you're correct in saying that tutorials have basically ruined a generation, I'd say it's more to do with bad tutorials. Everything becomes a giant game of Chinese whispers in the quest to generate as much content for an ad-revenue based youtube channel. It starts with…