Ridley5 opened this issue on Aug 20, 2012 ยท 283 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 22 August 2012 at 1:31 PM
CC SubD meshes are not the mesh. They are control cages that influence the evolution of the actual mesh in 3-space. The actual mesh is a mathematical construct.
The control mesh used as the actual mesh (what we do in Poser) is a reasonable substitute in the same way that rendering without GC and adding some extra lights is a reasonable substitute for linear workflow. But it's not the same. And in the situations where it's really vastly not the same, it's pointless.
That knee is a classic example of a control cage.
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