(02-15-2017, 12:22 PM)KrisBee Wrote: Setting it to "Cage" or "Some edges" prevents me from seeing any edges other than the ones present before smoothing, which doesn't really help as I'm interested in seeing the edge behavior after smoothing.It seems like you wanted to use the All Edges options. See bellow:
This sphere has four materials and I was in Face [F] selection mode.