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Use Edge Flow to smooth geometry

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Use Edge Flow to smooth geometry

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- [Instructor] When you start refining your model, there may be times when you'll need to insert or create an edge loop to match the curvature of the existing model. Now we have a tool that helps with that and it's called edge flow. Now here I have an arm, and we're use this as an example a little bit later. So I'm going to go ahead and hide that by hitting control H. Now let's go ahead and create a very simple object. So I'm going to go ahead and create a polygonal torus. Let's go ahead and drag this out. And then I'm going to go over into my attribute editor and let's go ahead and dial down our subdivisions axis to say 10. Now we want to get this kind of chunky. In fact, let's go ahead and bring it down to eight. So what edge flow does is it allows you to control how an edge blends in with its adjacent edges. So let's take a look at how this works. It's probably best just to show you. So I'm going to select this edge loop. So we'll go ahead and double-click on that, and then Edit…

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