Quote - I never use the smoothing.  I find it tends to distort the geometries too much for some reason.

That's often okay... but I want a proper, smooth cone in my render, not an arrangement of flat triangular polygons and hard edges.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)