I'm relatively new to the 3D modeling world (couple years now) and I've always done just a typical high to low poly bake with my high poly mesh and my low poly mesh. I throw it in xNormal (or Substance) to bake out my Normals and tweak it a bit in Photoshop if necessary. However, I've been following a tutorial series over…
"And I got really good results in my bakes when I started using Cages throughout this tutorial." I hope I am not going to sound like a jerk here, but the first step for you to determine whether or not they are "old news" would be for you to investigate and understand why you suddenly got good results out of using them. And…