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====== 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)

{{ http://tactical.nekromantix.com/images/wiki/SmSh_box_bad.jpg }}

but you want it looks like this one:

{{ http://tactical.nekromantix.com/images/wiki/SmSh_box_good.jpg }}

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:

{{ http://tactical.nekromantix.com/images/wiki/SmSh_cylinder.jpg }}

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

{{ http://tactical.nekromantix.com/images/wiki/SmSh_cylinder_start.jpg }}

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

NOTE: Don't sharp all faces on cylinder

{{ http://tactical.nekromantix.com/images/wiki/SmSh_cylinder_sharp1.jpg }}

Sharp only the edges!

{{ http://tactical.nekromantix.com/images/wiki/SmSh_cylinder_sharp2.jpg }}

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

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

See also more from Ian Malcolm in [[http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=50;t=35568|BIS forum]] topic.

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

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