Thank you, and "my trials" were basically shoving a cylinder in a box with boolean and then deleting the whole thing lol. but next time i will take a picture before rage quitting.
now what i want you to do is, try that on a whole body chainmaill armour ;) max can't handle the amount of objects and will hate you for throwing so many polies at it, one chain is fairly simple that way but a whole lot of rings will kill max, and i'm talking about thousands not a few hundred rings ;)
I had a go with that gun piece as well, I tried to sharpen the corners with local cuts and not adding loops across the whole cylinder and messing up its smoothness. Looks good for me, but you pros can comment if this is good way to add details into smooth surfaces and shapes where adding whole loops for creases might not…