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All right let's take a look at another modifier that we have which is called a subdivision surface modifier



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which is very useful for our animations and for our models and it's used quite a bit actually it's one



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of the most used modifiers use.



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So let's take a look at what it does and how it can help us selecting our handle what's going to front



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view.



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And you could see that our handle is pretty blocky looking so it looks not as smooth as we would want



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it to look even if we were to go here and hit smooth shading in our panel.



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You can see that still looks pretty blocky.



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So how do we fix that and smooth it out.



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Well we could have had tab go into edit mode and hit w subdivide and add in a lot of geometry and move



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it around and smooth it out.



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But again like I said we want the least amount of geometry and vertices that give us the result that



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we want for several different reasons.



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Because it's cleaner because it takes less render time.



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And also if we ever need to make changes to our mesh or to model it's much easier to be able to just



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grab say four of four edge loops and scale them up or whatnot.



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Whereas if we had a lot of geometry we're going to have a ton of geometry to add it every time we want



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to make a change.



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So how do we add geometry without actually adding it.



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Well let's take a look at that.



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And the way we do that is by adding a subdivision surface modifier.



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So let's go over here to the modifiers tab with our handle selected click add modifier and click on



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subdivision surface.



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Now you see right away that it's actually subdivided the mesh.



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And basically if we hit Z to go into wireframe you can see that what it's done is it's subdivided at



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one time and it's smoothed it out.



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So basically with a subdivision surface my fire does is if I delete it it's as if it does a subdivision



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but it's subdivides and smooths it out not as much but it subdivides it and smooth it out.



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But what it does is it actually doesn't apply it to the mesh.



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So if I go back here to the modifiers click on subdivision surface once again you can see that if I



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hit tab to go into edit mode we still have the original amount of vertices that we had.



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But if I had Z to go into wireframe you could see that subdivided.



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And if I bump up the level here you can see that subdivides it once more.



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And this is really cool because again if we go out and hit tab to go into edit mode we still have the



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same amount of verses and faces to be able to tweak and move our mesh.



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So the more levels the more subdivision and the smoother it will be.



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But the longer render time it will take you could have zero levels so this is how it originally is.



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And one two and three you could see every time we bump up the level it adds more geometry to the mesh.



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Now the subdivision surface works underneath our actual Masch as you can see this never changes but



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the base Smersh or the mesh underneath our transform box that we have here or adding to our our editing



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box Scuse me is actually subdivided.



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So that's really cool.



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And the view is obviously the view of subdivisions that we have here the render is how many subdivisions



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will be in your final render over here.



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Optimal display.



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If I hit three and go into wireframe by hitting z you can see that if I hit optimal display it will



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display just the mesh with the original amount of vertices.



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And this could be useful if you have a lot of things are subdivided which are have a subdivision surface



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when you hit Z to go into wireframe and might get a little cluttered with the view.



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So you could always put optimal display.



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So that is subdivisions surface modifier.



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It's really really cool.



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And right now it's using that catcall Clark subdividing method.



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There's also the simple method which is basically subdivides and smooth.



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In a different kind of way.



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But that actually looks pretty cool right there.



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And in fact.



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But for the most part use this one for a lot of different things you know humans a lot of organic objects



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that have a flow or smooth smoothness to them you would use a subdivision surface modifier even things



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such as boxes and things that you would not think would use them uses them.



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So right here again you could have the simple one or the other one gives you two different kinds of



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results as you can tell.



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And for now I actually like the simple one but I want to show you a couple of things with this one that



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is very useful to know because you're going to be using it a lot in the near future.



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So if we go back to this one you can see that right here it's kind of smoothed out and it doesn't have



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that crease anymore and it's not as strong and prominent.



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These these these ridges and here in our sword so to get them more prominent You can see that when it's



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subdivides it basically adds in geometry in-between each of the points of the vertices.



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You can see right here it's added geometry.



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So if we add in a loop cut control are an add in a loop cut right here.



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It will add geometry between this one and between the one we just added.



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But if we bring it closer to the original one you can see that the geometry will be more condensed because



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now it's adding geometry from here to right here.



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So it's more condensed.



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And if I actually hit tab and Z to zoom in to go to wireframe and zoom in here with my delete key on



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my numpad you can see as I said there is a more condensed edge loops or subdivision happening from here



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to this one.



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So it adds in more of a what you call a a ridge.



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It makes it sharper.



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Basically it sharpens the edge loop and sharpens the edge out.



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So let's go ahead and actually do this for here as well.



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Now if we had control our left click and then bring it up you can see it will sharpen out that edge



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as well.



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So we have a much sharper edge because the calculation of subdivision from here to here is much more



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condensed.



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So there's a lot more edge loops here making it sharper from here to here.



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There's much more space so it's smoothed out and spread out more and you could see that if you prezzie



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you have much more subdivisions there.



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So let's go ahead and do that for the bottom as well.



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And one thing you don't want to do.



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You don't want to bring it completely on top of the other loop.



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You want to bring it just next to it.



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So right here you could see that it's right next to it and if you want to edge slide once again that's



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g once and then G once again.



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And you could actually edge edge slide it closer but never put it right on top of the other one.



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That is not good.



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Put it right next to it.



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Take control are and do the same thing with this one over here hitting G twice to edge slide it up and



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now you can see that it's sharpened out our edges it sharpened out are basically the protrusion that



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we had here.



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So that is pretty pretty cool.



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Now I'm going to get one to go into front view and five to go into orthographic view and I'm actually



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on this object right here.



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I'm going to hit all right click select these two and scale this up a little bit and slide these as



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well.



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I'm going to scale it up a little bit.



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And bring it up scale it back down make it more spherical so that it looks more like a sphere.



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And scale this one up a Llobet.



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All right.



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And we could even bring this up.



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So now we have that in there.



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Let's go ahead and do that for these two over here.



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Just quickly.



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So once you get the hang of it it's very fast control are at in a loop cut bring it in control are and



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then control are right here and right here so it can be done as fast as that.



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Now let's take a look at a different way of doing it here.



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Let's take control our scroll it up to two left click and then right click to put it in the center s



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and Z to scale it up along the Z-axis and you only want to do this if it's going along the axis.



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And you know that it is otherwise you want to edge slide it by hitting G and then G once again and it



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will edge slide it because if your mesh is not going along a particular axis it will still slide it



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along that face loop or along that edge loop that it should.



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All right so that is a subdivision surface modifier.



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Pretty cool.



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And it adds great results.



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Let's actually add in a loop cuts down here as well to sharpen out the sedge.



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And there we go.



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And maybe this one too.



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All right.



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Awesome.



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So that is the handle of our sword.



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And once again that's a subdivision surface modifier.



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If we had simple Now you could see that it's not as nice because we added in a lot more geometry which



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mainly works with this version of subdivision surface but 99 percent of the time you're going to be



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using this kind of subdivision surface because it gives a much better smoother looking result.



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All right.



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That's a subdivision surface.



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Let's finish up our sword here in the next tutorial.



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All right.



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Ladies and gentleman.



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So I like this one because I went to Utah this past weekend the Zion National Park.



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And just looking at the stars up at night you could see the Milky Way and everything was absolutely



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amazing.



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So that's what inspired this quote or poem.



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Abundance is all around you.



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It's foolish to think that there's only a select few.



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And to believe in this is most likely not true.



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Because remember it's only your current point of view.



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So shift your focus around and you'll see that this world is as abundant as can be.



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I ladies and gentlemen we live in a world of abundance.



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Get out there get your share and spread it with everyone else.



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All right.



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Take care.



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Appreciate you guys.