Transform Triangles: what about Quads?

[skinnytorus]

Hey, guys.

Transform Triangles is fantastic, but there's a couple of oddities came across:

1) Why isn't there a quad extrude option? In most cases designers need quads rather than triangles.
2) The Surface shader needs to have both sides shaded to avoid invisible polygons. Kinda inefficient IMO.

My test file: triangles1.compo (11.0 KB)

Are there any improvements planned in that area?

Thank you,
Skinny

[francis]

Figure out that this effect was working on quads in Smode 1.2 ...
Unfortunately, this became something quite difficult in more recent versions because, since everything is done in the GPU, it's a bit difficult to do advanced processing that depends on the topology of the mesh (in the early versions of smode, such computations were all made in the CPU by default, making them much more easy to implement...).
We'll let it know if things move, but the priority on this isn't very high at this time.

Best,