I've been away for a long time, I know and there's no reason except, well, life happened.  I'm slowly getting back into Bryce and upgraded to v6 a week or so ago.

So far, I'm really liking it---especially because the interface didn't change all that much which is really nice since I've not used it in awhile.

But I have a question about the new "convert to mesh" function.  :huh:  In reading through the documentation about it, it reads like the newly converted mesh can be used to boolean things: "However, the new mesh can be set to positive, negative, or intersect, and then grouped with another converted mesh or with newly created primitives." (Bryce Artist Guide, Convert Boolean Icon)  I hoped this meant that the new mesh could be used, for instance, as a negative item to carve out a portion of a positive item.  However, that doesn't seem to work.

I have one group that will become my negative and one that will be my positive.  I've tried converting the negative to a mesh, applying the negative, ungrouping the positive and regrouping with the mesh added but that doesn't work.

I've tried converting both groups to meshes, apply the appropriate positive and negative but that doesn't work either.  I've tried exporting the meshes, importing them again and doing the +/- thing but that has no effect either.

Is what I'm trying to do really possible?

Thanks in advance and I'll be back but probably mostly in lurker mode for now.  Life, ya know?

Susan :biggrin: