Quote - You just pointed out the reason why smoothing cannot be an automatic process: in some places is might useful, in others it would be just disastrous; the mesh developer is the one who decides where to smooth what, not the application (grotesque that one has to point out such things, like telling "water, the one that makes things wet, mind you").

It's still possible to crease parts of your mesh when using a good implemented subdivision, so the modeler can decide what should be smoothed. Afterwards, the process is automatic.

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