These tools allow you to edit
your object. You will be using many of these tools in the upcoming Chest of Drawers and
Hand exercises in this chapter.
Subdivision Surface Rollout
You have probably heard of subdivision (SubD) surfaces and SubD modeling. A SubD
surface is a surface that has been divided to have more faces. However, the SubD surface
retains the original object??™s general shape, which is sometimes called a cage. You subdivide
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Figure 4.25
The Edit Geometry
rollout
to add more detail to a model, but you can still edit the original cage of the model to alter
its overall shape and form.
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The Subdivision Surface rollout lets you access tools specific to modeling with a subdivision
surface, as shown in Figure 4.26.
You will be modeling with subdivision surfaces a little bit later in the Hand exercise in
this chapter and then again in Chapter 6, ???Character Poly Modeling.???
The Edit rollout tools give you access to functions such as Extrude and Bevel to help
you shape your model. The next section, ???Editable Poly Tools,??? will give you some more
experience with these toolsets. You will also use many of these tools in the Chest of Drawers
exercise in this chapter.
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