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Edit Poly vs, Edit Mesh

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I've been reading up on some of this and doing some tutorials on modeling outside of FS, and it's curious. In almost everything I read or watch involving modeling, the author models in Edit Poly or Nurbs, where when I talk to someone in the FS world, it seems almost exclusively that people model in Edit Mesh.

So I wonder what you all prefer, and why you like one over the other...

Kevin
 
Hey Kevin,

I jump back and fourth from E-Mesh to E-Poly. Perhaps about 60% of work is in E-Poly mode.

There are tools that exist for one and not the other, and there are tools that work better on one instead of the other.


For instance, I can divide a Polygon precisely with E-Mesh, and I can Divide and Create Edges in E-Poly. I can Edit_Triangulation in E-Poly, but not in E-Mesh.



Bill
 
Bill^2 is on it. I too use them fairly interchangably myself, although I tend to spend more time in E-Poly than E-Mesh...

As stated already though, it really comes down to what tools are available in each of the two modes.

I think perhaps the reason why many people prefer E-Mesh mode though is that you can quickly fool yourself with the "polygon count" when in E-Poly mode...

...you see, I can easily create a planar object with a dozen or more vertices that is still considered a single polygon by Max/GMax...

...but when re-triagulated by MakeMDL or XtoMDL will turn out be be two to three times that many trangle-polys!
 
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