Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In this tutorial, we cover how to soften and harden edges in Maya. These tools change how the vertex normals are displayed to create different looks to our edges.

Harden sets the vertex normal perpendicular to the vertex giving a hard look to the edge, and soften has the normals more spread out evenly across the surface, it averages the normals across soft edges.

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