eelie opened this issue on Nov 01, 2006 · 12 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Sun, 05 November 2006 at 12:07 PM
Susan,
"Well, I have a feeling what I'm trying to do can't be done. My two groups consist of both positive and negative primitives. What I was trying to do was shape the first group with the second group. Since the two intersect at a point where both groups have shaping within their own group, each has to be a mix of positive and negative."
yes, I think it can certainly be done - since you say you're using B6, You perform the operation with the first group - whatever that maybe, positive and negative or positive and intersect... whatever. Then you click on C (i.e. collapse) to get the result of that operation. Then you do the same with the second group, and again collapse to get the mesh you want, then you can use the second collapsed mesh to perform a boolean operation on the first mesh you created.
I just did something similar myself - but I used a sphere and a light in the first operation, (positive and intersect) and two cones in the second, (positive and negative) then I used the cones on the sphere/light mesh, it works just fine.
The result isn't anything spectacular, I'm just experimenting, but it proves it can be done.
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