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Sharpening corners with Crease

Sharpening corners with Crease - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Sharpening corners with Crease

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- [Narrator] Edge creasing is a way to introduce sharp angles into a sub-division surface model without increasing its level of detail. One way to produce sharp corners on a sub-d model is to have edge loops very close to one another or when you do that you're increase the level of detail and you may not want to do that. Let's take a look, I'll select the seat cushion and once again have the Modify panel displayed, I want to be at the level of the editable poly with show end result enabled and let's go into Edge Sub-Object mode and I want to create a new edge loop down here to separate the cushion from the plastic hardware that's supporting the cushion itself. And to do that I can swift loop on the ribbon so I can position the cursor to get a preview of this new edge loop and then click to create the edge loop right-click to exit out of swift loop and that edge is still selected and we can play around with it, let's go to the Scale tool and we want to use the Pick Coordinate system…

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