So i have a mesh that i created in another modeling program as a lowpoly mesh, for this example i will use a barrel, that has a cylindrical shape which also has other parts that have flat surfaces.
How can i smooth only the faces of the cylinder without smoothing the edged of the hard/flat edges?
Whenever i enabled smoothing while subdividing is smooths EVERYTHING and if i disable smoothing while subdividing then go back and smooth a masked portion the parts of the cylinder that are touching the other parts of the mesh stay hard/flat.
Here is a picture for reference:
The Barrel was subdivided to 1.7 mil polys WITHOUT Smoothing, the one on the right was subdivided to 1.7 mil polys WITH smoothing enabled.
The only parts i want smoothed are the faces of the cylindrical shapes and not the flat edges of the rings like the below image:
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