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Cinema 4D primitive objects,
tools, deformers

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Primitive objects and 3D tools

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are the most fundamental part
of every 3D application,

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since they allow you
to initiate your 3D project.

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In this lesson, I will also talk about
Cinema 4D deformers

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to show you how you can manipulate
this primitive in a procedural way.

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Let me show you.

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To access primitive objects in Cinema 4D
there are two ways.

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You can left-click
and hold on this blue cube

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and then you will see
all the available primitives,

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or you can go to Create, Primitives
and select them here.

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Let me bring some of them.
I'll bring a cube, a sphere,

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and one capsule,
and also the landscape, for example.

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I wanna show you a real tip
to arrange these

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without selecting
and moving them individually.

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You can select all these objects here
and then go to Tools, Arrange.

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And then, as you see in this axis,

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I will arrange them
putting a number here

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and then hitting Apply.

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You see they are now
arranged by this distance.

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Let's talk about these individuals.

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If I select the cube and press S,

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the camera will focus
on the selected object.

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Now in this Attribute Editor
I can see I have some different tabs.

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The first one is Basic.

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This will be similar
in all the primitives.

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It gives you this option
to turn the visibility off and on

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in the Editor and also in the Render.
Here you see it's set to Default.

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You can turn it to Off
and then I don't see that.

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Also you can change the X-Ray mode,
which is nice.

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I can see through the object.

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I can turn it off
or I can enable and disable.

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This is directly linked
to this green checkbox here.

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As you see, now it's turned off.
It's the same thing.

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I can turn it off and on.

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And also I can change
the icon settings here.

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You can display a color for the icon
or you can change the name here.

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The name is Cube.
You can type your desired name.

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The next one is Coordinate,

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which gives you the coordinates
of the object.

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Here I can see that this is set

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to 900 centimeters from the origin.

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I can change this.

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I can scale this,
and I can change the rotation.

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It's exactly the same thing
with handles.

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I can just select that and rotate it.
And if I select that,

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now I have all these parameters
in different value.

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The next one is the object.
This tab is the one that defines

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each separate individual object
and it is different.

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I can change the segments here.

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To see the segments,

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we need to go to Display
and set the Quick Shading (Lines).

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This doesn't allow you
to see the division in the segments.

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I would like to turn it on for now.

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Another nice option
is to enable the Fillet.

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If you enable Fillet here,
you can get very smooth corners.

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I can change the radius
and I can change the subdivisions.

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If I turn it off,

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you will see that it has
very nice, smooth corners.

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But besides that,

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you can also define
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just by these handles.

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All these primitives, before you
turn them to Editable mode,

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you can manipulate
and change the parameters

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with these handles.

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It will be the same thing
with this capsule.

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If I select this handle,

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I can change the size
or I can change the segments.

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And I can even have a slice of that.

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This will give you a portion of this
with different angles.

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Another one which is a little different
is the Landscape one.

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This is my favorite.

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You can also change
many different values here.

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I can change the shape
of this landscape

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or I can even change the seed.

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And every time I press this,
it gives me a new different result.

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You can change the level here,
or you can change the sea level.

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So it gives me this value.

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And I can make it a little lower.

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As you see, it gives me
tons of different options.

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You can change this to Spherical mode.

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I'm not going to talk
about each individual one

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because they are kind of similar,

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but please review all
these available primitives

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and get familiar with them.

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PRIMITIVE OBJECTS
Creating a null

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When I create a null,
I cannot see anything in the Viewport,

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but there are some
very cool benefits of that.

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First of all,

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I can select all these
and put them in this Null,

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and then it will be a group
of these objects.

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Sometimes you just want
to create a null object

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to define some parameters
without seeing them.

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This null object will be nice to have,

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but if you want
you can also go to Object, Display,

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and change it to any shape you want.

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And now you can see
this object here, as well.

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PRIMITIVE OBJECTS
Spline

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You can access spline primitives
through this window here

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or you can go to Create, Spline,
and access all these primitives.

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Let's talk about a few of them.

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If I bring one helix here,

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you see I have this helix
and I can change the radius...

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the height and angle
and many different values here.

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Let's bring another one, the star.

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I can change the outer radius
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with different points,

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or twist it.

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We cannot see a spline
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In order to do that,

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we need to use an object
called Sweep object.

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Here, you can access the Sweep object.

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If you select this icon,
you can see the Sweep here.

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How can we use that?

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Just create the Sweep

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and then put your desired spline
as a child under the Sweep.

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And now you just need one profile.

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I'll create a circle, for example,

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and give the circle
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Now I can see that in Object,

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but in Cinema 4D's Object Manager,
the object's order is very important.

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If I switch this,

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it's actually swept
the helix around the circle

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instead of sweeping the circle
around the helix.

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If I change the radius of this
by scaling down,

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I can get a different result.

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This can be the same
by creating another Sweep

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and putting the star here,

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and giving a new n-Side.

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So I put this here
and now if I scale this down,

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it gives me this beautiful shape.

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You can also draw your own spline.

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If I select the Spline Pen,

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I can start drawing by left-clicking
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But I always recommend drawing a spline
in orthographic views.

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How can you do that?
Let me delete this.

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Select this cube on top of the Viewport,

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and then you can access the top,
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If I go to the top view, for example,
and draw again...

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and press Escape on my keyboard,

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I can see that it's perfectly aligned
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You can also sketch
all the splines that you want.

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Just select this Sketch
and then here I can start drawing.

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And if I go back
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I now have this beautiful spline.

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We can smooth out this spline
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We can just let Spline Smooth
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and then start drawing on top of that.

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It will smooth out the spline for us.

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Now let me add some thickness
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Again, bring a circle,
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and put this under the Sweep.

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Again, the order is very important.
So I re-order that

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and I will change this
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These two splines are connected
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Anytime that you create a spline,

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you just need to make sure
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If not, when I draw a spline,

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it just adds to the current spline.

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Sometimes it's nice to have this option,

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but I always recommend
to set this Create New Spline

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to create a new separate spline.

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PRIMITIVE OBJECTS
Sweep options

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In this Sweep
you can change End Scale.

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Now I can get a different thickness.

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You see here,
if I just zoom on this one,

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I can get a different scale.

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You can change the start growth
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And you can even set some key frame
to animate that.

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By clicking on this circle,
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and I can see the key frame here.

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And here, I set to 100
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Now I can see that animation.

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TURNING PRIMITIVE OBJECTS INTO
Editable objects

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Let me delete this.
I'll bring in one cube, press S.

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Now, if I click on this icon
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it turns into an editable object.

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First thing you may notice
is the icon is a little different.

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It tells me
that this is an editable object.

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Now, if I select one of these three,

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the Point, Edge and Surface,
I have access to these elements.

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I can select the surface, for example.

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I can move, scale, rotate

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and I can easily deform this object.

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But Cinema 4D offers different tools
in order to make this easier.

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Let's press Control + Z.

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First I would like to show you Extrude.

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I select the surface,
right-click and then select Extrude.

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Now, in my Attribute Editor,
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of the current tool
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You can see that available here.

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If you select the object, for example,
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you can just select this,
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the available options
for the selected tool.

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Now, if I just left-click
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I can extrude this.

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I can right-click
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And then right-click again,
Extrude and extrude in.

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This way I can create
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just with one single Extrude tool.

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If I right-click
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select Bevel and select this one,

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I can bevel this one, as you see.
Now here, I can add Subdivision

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and get a different subdivision type
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Now, if I get back to the object mode
I have this beautiful shape.

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And if I put this
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it smoothes out
the whole geometry for me.

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Now you can see that if I turn off,
I have this beautiful object.

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If I, for example, delete this
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I would like to turn on
Quick Shading (Lines).

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Turn this editable, and then...

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Let's see what the other options are.

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If I right-click,
I have Loop/Path Cut here.

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I can see that it's already
showing me a loop.

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I can just click here
and with this available tool on top,

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I can reposition that in between

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and I can even add more subdivisions,
which is very cool.

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So imagine that I do that
and I want to select this ring,

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so I just-double click on that
and then I can select and scale that.

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Select this one again and scale that.

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Again, if I put that here...

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You don't have to, but I always love
to create very smooth shapes.

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By right-clicking

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you can access
all these available tools here.

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For example, just select Line Cut,
then you see all the options here.

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If I turn off Visible Only
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then it applies, and then I press Escape

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I see it applies to all the surfaces,

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even those surfaces
that I cannot see through the camera.

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Or I can change it to Infinite Cut,

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which is one of my favorites,
and when you click,

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you can see this infinite line.

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You let it go
and then it applied this cut.

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Please, play with these tools.

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You will see how easy
you can manipulate these objects,

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even without using deformers.