====== Smooth and Sharp Edges ======

**Smooth and Sharp Edges** by Ian Malcolm

Maybe you already met with this problem: you need to create very angular object,but if you try to do that it´s till not that what you want (picture)

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but you want it looks like this one:

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What you must do? It's very simply select all faces (CTRL-A) and press U.

Smooth and Sharp Edges, Working with cylinders.

Look at this muzzle before using Sharp edges:

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Little bit ugly, dont you think? Nevermind! we'll repair it, select all "start places" of all cylinders.

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Then press U for sharp and as you can see it looks much better.

NOTE: Don't sharp all faces on cylinder

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Sharp only the edges!

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I hope this sharp mini tutorial will help to your model be more sharped & realistic.


====== Notes ======

This tutorial was written by Ian Malcolm in [[http://status.webz.cz/tutorials/index.htm|status.webz.cz/tutorials/]]