You can modify components on a mesh while simultaneously previewing their effect on a Smooth Mesh Preview.
To edit a mesh in smooth mesh preview mode
- Ensure that
Smooth Mesh Preview is turned on for the polygonal mesh you want to edit. (You can quickly cycle through different smooth mesh preview modes by pressing the 1, 2, or 3 keys when the mesh object is selected.) See
Preview a smoothed mesh.
Note: When working in Cage + Smooth Mesh mode you can select components on the Cage, Smooth Mesh, or Both by selecting an option in the Smooth Mesh Preview > Edit section of the polyShape node Attribute Editor.
- Select and edit components on the mesh.
Tip: When the Edit option for Cage + Smooth is set to Both you may want to change the active and inactive display colors for the Smooth Mesh Preview to more easily differentiate between the cage and the smoothed versions of the mesh.
- Select Windows > Settings/Preferences > Color Settings and then on the Active and Inactive tabs, open the Smooth Mesh Preview section to set the active and inactive color settings.
Note:
Caching smooth meshes can cause poor performance and consume large amounts of memory. You can disable
Smooth Mesh Preview using the
Cache Smooth Meshes option in the
Cached Playback Preferences.