edit mesh vs edit poly

[Prs-Phil]

balled characters ? ;)

Yes it is a stupid discussion, just decide for yourself. Use WHAT you think is best, try out, learn just make the best out of everything.

[Neox]

sure you can do edgeextrudes in editable Poly, you just have to prepare your model right ;)
you can't do an edgeextrude with a closed model, thats right, but you could split one Edge to open it and the extrude hair, or whatever you want... i defintaley like epoly mor, 'cause it is more flexible and the modellingtools are way better...

[kromano]

Edit poly seems to be more forgiving on mistakes by giving you something of a "preview" for welding verts and the like. I'm speaking from Max 5 experience mostly here, but I find edit mesh enjoys spewing out all kinds of fun bugs when doing more complex editing, like cutting polys. Seems like Edit Poly is more stable, but I haven't given it much of a run, only started checking it out more in depth recently, I mostly prefer edit mesh.

[johnwoo]

I think this is an interesting question, cos' I know a fair Artists that love the Edit Poly tool in 3dsMax, and then me included prefer Edit Mesh...but it's weird but in XSI I love the polygon tools very, very powerful, and just as good to use, I like both tho'...sorry to derail sligtly tho'....but yep...I prefer Edit Mesh in 3dsMax...:)

[mindrot]

Max 7 finally has an edit poly modifier. It can preserve texture UV's when vertex editing a textured object.

many of the newer features (Max 6 & 7) were only available in third party plugins (meshtools, cs polytools)...

Also the dege loop, connect, and ring optioins are really helpful.

Edit poly is definitely my prefered choice now, though I do have to switch to edit mesh now and then to make edges visable- why they didn't include this into edit poly is beyond me. I suppose it will be a new feature in Max 8 :rolleyes:

[Neox]

select two vertices and use connect :)
and then use the meshtools funktion edge turn to rotate it :)

[chiwoo]

I use both. They both have their advantages and disadvantages.

[NeoNautica]

I prefer edit mesh. All my hot keys are set up for it... heh

[Psyk0]

I switch back and forth between mesh and poly, a lot quicker to work with epoly tho.

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