I’m done with it. The wheel has come off the car. “I couldn’t make the turn until it was much too late….”
Playing with the cages has unfortunately been my downfall. I somehow played with too many of the active elements. My low-poly got corrupted, the lug nut hole turned into some alien blister and I have no back up that I can find.
My best bet is to say this was too much too fast for me, I need to find lower level courses as I am beginner. I am keeping the files for a return. I have backup but they are during the modeling phase of this adventure. Something ate or I ate my saves, I save when I should have incremented or I incremented when I should have copied?
I am going to start small and repeat as many times as necessary to get this under by belt. It’s annoying to give up like this but I shall return.