Re: Boolean Dice 2004-02-26 - By ccoles_avengers
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So that's where that little boolean bugger was hiding! Thanks for the
info. I had looked for this function in the assembly room (actually
to use it to weld things) to avoid going back to AMAPI to make slight
changes, but for some reason I had been missing it.
Say, that gives me an idea...
Cheers.
Claudia
"Selocic"
(a newbie)
--- In Carrara@(protected), "markdesmarais" <markdesmarais@(protected)>
wrote:
> You can also do booleans in the assembly room. . . select both
> objects, Edit menu/3D Boolean.
>
> Markd
>
>
> --- In Carrara@(protected), "jkyoutsey" <yahoo@(protected)> wrote:
> > So, I gave up on the die rolling thing...
> >
> > Now I have problems with the dice. I built them using texture maps
> > and so I don't get good WHITE dice unless the light is DIRECTLY
> > pointing at the face. Then the dots glare really badly.
> >
> > So, I figured I should make actually model the dots on the dice.
> > Then I can control texture and shine of all of the parts
> > individually.
> >
> > So, I have a Vetex object die and I created Primitive spheres for
> > each of the dots. I did them as prims because I could precisely
> > control the layout of the spheres.
> >
> > Now the problem. How do I subtract the primitive dots from the
> > Vertex object? It only seems that you can create Vertex meshes in
> > the Vetex modeler all in the same object and do boolean
> operations.
> > Is this true? If so, then Carrara's modeler is even worse than I
> > already thought it was.
> >
> > I may have to export this and do it all in a different proggy.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
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