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Booleans help please
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mitm2002 68 posts06 Dec 2007 -
06 Dec 2007
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Will J 215 posts06 Dec 2007 -
07 Dec 2007my advice is this, don't use them. They suck and usually don't give you good geometry by any means. If I need a shape like that, I just model it, there's no use trying to make things work that don't work well. You'll save time making the good geometry. I promise.
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07 Dec 2007I agree with Z to a point. But Booleans can be a very powerful tool (depending on how you are modeling). I never use nurbs in max. I model in rhino3d (nurbs), export as a mesh to max,maya. The Boolean tools in rhino are far more advanced. In maya to boolean two obj, it depends on which obj you chose first, as what obj will take from another. So try switching witch ojb you have highlighted first, depending on which boolean comand you have selected.
hope this helps
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07 Dec 2007Booleans are the devil, they always mess up when I try using em
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Will J 215 posts08 Dec 2007Kilroy: Amen. Maya's NURBS tools really can't hold a candle to Rhino. Sure rhino is pants for anything else, but by golly can you can you get gorgeous NURBS models in it! Trouble with exporting as a polymesh is that there tend to be ALOT of polys if you want a nice model. Kills your PC when you raytrace etc.. But at least the rhino boolean tools are very reliable once you learn to troubleshoot them (I actually have a checklist which never fails.) Maya.....not so freindly.
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