ddaydreams opened this issue on Oct 25, 2006 · 6 posts
ddaydreams posted Wed, 25 October 2006 at 12:25 AM
Can I do boolean operations on a bryce treelab tree?
I'de like to make a bryce tree lab tree then shape it perfectly spherical by cutting back all outer branchs with a sphere. I'm not getting any results when I group a postive sphere and a intersect treelab tree the sphere and tree both stay visable, not the intersection I was trying for. I also tried it the other way to, with the sphere set to intersect and tree positive. Any suggestions. Thanks
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Mahray posted Wed, 25 October 2006 at 12:47 AM
Bryce trees are actually metaballs, and currently metaballs can't be booleaned. I'm not sure if there is another way to do what you want, unfortunately.
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Svarg posted Wed, 25 October 2006 at 10:14 AM
You might try creating a sphere then texturing it with foliage. Then you could add some branches if needed.
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haloedrain posted Wed, 25 October 2006 at 11:59 AM
There used to be a tree kit freebie with several different trunk and tree meshes that you could mix and match. I think one of the tree shapes was sphereical. Unfortunately I can't find the website, but I think it was by the same person who had the extra primitives (star shapes, rounded cylinders etc.) and possibly also the torus-shell tutorial and the pyramid-diamond tutorial, if that helps anyone else find it.
Edit: Never mind about the tutorials, they're both peter sharpe's. Thought I'd seen them both somewhere else first, though, especially the diamond one, with a lot more math.
ddaydreams posted Wed, 25 October 2006 at 4:10 PM
Thanks all
For the info and suggestions. I'll try to remember to post back here when I reach a solution.
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Mahray posted Thu, 26 October 2006 at 2:11 AM
You could try making a tree with transparent leaves, then sticking a sphere with leaf textures on top.
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