Good info, fast delivery. Imagine someone watching classic 1h Blender tutorial about that one thing that takes 5 seconds and then end up here.

Came back to notify any new viewers that in blender 4.1 there is now merged with smooth! So now when you want to autosmooth you use the new autosmooth modifier or mark the sharpness without enabling the autosmooth under the normals tab. You can also right click and use smooth by angle which also does a similar thing

Keep in mind that Gouraud shading is what gives the "smooth" appearance and basic texture-mapping will be unaffected by face smoothing. This is important for PS1 and N64-style art because Gouraud shading is not always used with texture-mapped faces on those systems due to its cost. Also, using auto-smoothing _or_ flat shading will likely cause the exporter to generate extra vertices with different normals as most renderers' basic shaders do not differentiate between smoothed faces and unsmoothed faces the way Blender does. This is important if you are enforcing a vertex budget in your engine as the reported vertex count from Blender will likely be smaller than the export's actual vertex count when exporting with vertex normals. Perhaps unimportant for something like Unity, but if you're making models for a homebrew PS1 game, this is important to know.

Marking the correct edges as hard whilst having auto smooth on in the object settings is an absolute GAMECHANGER. My entire project leveled up visually, courtesy of that tip. Can't thank you enough for this.

Was always unsure how to work with smoothing in Blender, thanks for showing off these tips!

You came back into the game strong. Love it your stuff is always entertaining and useful, keep it up!

I knew of the Smooth shading previously, but never the Auto-Smoothing! Thanks for pointing this out in your video 👍

Never modelled a character but I have used blender for other things. The amount of quality advice you coherently packed into such a small video is really impressive. I've just subbed :) keep up the quality content, Im looking forward to learning more!

I just found you and ravenously watched all your videos. You're a king, this content is beautiful, concise, and extremely helpful. Please make PLENTY more!

Nice clear and straightforward. Great editing too

Keep it up. This helped me to clarify the auto smooth function.

This was actually a really good help, trying to create a nice portfolio and this just made my models a lot better, thanks :D

Directly to the point, this saved me a lot of time. Thank you!

thanks a lot i've been strugling with that specific function for a while now really thanks man

Loving this new content from you!

my man always on point keeep doin this its amazingly useful! cheers from Italy!

1:57 I'm guessing Auto-Smooth is disabled by default as it presumably (?) makes recalculating the shading more expensive, which may make very-high-poly editing a laggy pain. It's a shame, because it is absolutely one of those few "make it look much better with zero work" features for hard surface & low(ish)-poly modeling, so thanks for spreading the Good Word.

This is an important fundamental i didnt even know i would REALLY need to know. Thank you!

yess please more!! quick and to the point i love it

Even though I already know these things, Its nice to hear someone else is using the same methods.

Wow, that Mark Sharp thing is absolute magic. Thank you so much.

This will be very useful, thanks so much

Super helpful, thanks

Excellent video, exactly what I needed.

Need more succinct tutorials like this... Life saving.

great tutorial!

thanks this helps a lot

Brooo Thank you so much. This will come so handy for a complete beginner like me ahaha

thanks for what you do~

I didn't know you could combine smooth and flat shading in one object like that, that could be very useful

Very good tutorial, thanks.

This is very good info for beginners specially the roughness material that I was mind bugllyng so much, it's annoying

Thank you for this! I didn't understand why mark sharp never did anything!

tysm used to smoothen a model before printing!

Oh wow! Super helpful!

Very nice explanation

how have I never seen anyone mention that auto smooth feature before. holy crap that is so useful

I know you know that already, but your video is absolutely life saving. Thank you so much!

Keep in mind to apply scale/all transforms consistently when using auto smooth to ensure that the smoothing is applied correctly, sometimes it will go from looking wack to perfect in one click

THANK YOU. I see this *everywhere* and I just wanna yell from the rooftops that these low poly models could be so much better with just a couple clicks!!! I hope this tutorial enlightens all the new low-poly modelers out there.

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I like this video ❤

I guess I got lucky, because the mixed smooth/sharp edges is one of the first thing I've learnt in Blender, I'm always surprised when people don't know about it.

This auto smoothing saved my life lol, thanks x

gracias!!!!!

I FINALLY KNOW WHAT THE SHARP DOES THANK YOU

I wish it could be this simple. It depends on how the models were made

God bless you mr sickly wizard

Really good looking in blender, but when I export the 3D model and import the file in any other softwares it's going back to it's original Low-poly state.... Is it possible to export somehow and still keep the smooth surface?

Greetings from a fellow frog man thing!

I'm having a problem where the models look blocky when exporting them for 3d printing. Anyone know how to keep a model smooth for 3d printing?

if you export the model to unity, does it keep the autosmoothing?

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I just want a gouraud shading option :(

[Edit Mode] Mesh > Shading > Smooth Faces is it any different to [Object Mode] Right Click > Shade Smooth ? Looks like an unnecessary workaround to me.

is there a way to increase the poly count to make the model smooth other than subdivision surface modifier?

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Dammit, I thought you were 'TheStickyWizard', I am somewhat disappointed now XD

is there a difference between this shade smooth and the shade smooth option when you right click? Or is that a newer feature?

Doesnt do anything to my model

And to think I wasted hours on other youtuber channels duh. thanks!

doesnt work 💀