Hi Guys I'm having problems when trying to edit booleans. I'm using B2 and when I make a reasonably complex image and try to subtract a part with a negative, nothing happens. The image renders as if there were no negative there. I am making the other objects positive and grouping them but the problem persists. My B2 was a free cover disk a while ago so I have no instructions and have been muddling my way through. Any help is appreciated. Glengarry.

Quick question for you. Are ALL of the objects in the group positive except for the one that is negative? For example, you want to boolean a poser figure with a sphere to simulate a hole in the chest. I would think that you just need the chest positive and the rest negative. No such luck. EVERYTHING in the group needs to be positive except for the one (or more) negatives. If you have a neutral or intersect in there, the results are going to be unpredictible (if anything actually happens like you see :) HTH.

The trick is in grouping things at their base level.. nesting groups and booleans doesn't work.. example: You group a sphere and box together (or boolean them and group), then you want to make a cone-shaped hold in the result.. what you'll have to do is ungroup the two, make them both positive (or if you're cutting out with both cone and sphere, make those negative and box positive) and group them all together at once.. Follow? You can't boolean an existing group, is sort of what I'm trying to say. =) Good luck. Rosh

Thanks for the help guys. I'll go back and give it another try. GG