Forum: Bryce


Subject: what am i doing wrong?

frndofyaweh opened this issue on Aug 24, 2002 ยท 7 posts


frndofyaweh posted Sat, 24 August 2002 at 2:43 PM

i'm trying to make a cube and spear it with a cylinder. cube is positive, cylinder is negative. then i want it to appear as a round hole right thru the cube, so i can see thru it. no matter what i do, it won't work. cannot find the group objects option anywhere, in bryce5. i 've linked the cylinder to parent cube and even made the cylinder transparent. nothing works. been trying every combination possible for about a week now.


Rochr posted Sat, 24 August 2002 at 3:12 PM

You will have to select both the cube and the cylinder and press the little "G" next to them to group them together.

Rudolf Herczog
Digital Artist
www.rochr.com


tuttle posted Sat, 24 August 2002 at 3:43 PM

A week! Damn, that would persuade even me to read the manual! ;) As Rochr says, select both objects, after you've made one positive and the other negative. Click the Group icon, or choose object/group, and voila! Note that if one of the objects is already part of a group it don't work. The mat of the positive object is, obviously, the outside mat, and the mat of the negative object becomes the mat of the hole.


EricofSD posted Sat, 24 August 2002 at 4:10 PM

Tuttle, I agree, unless he spilled sugared coffee on the manual and the roaches ate it over night.


frndofyaweh posted Sat, 24 August 2002 at 9:22 PM

i never read manuals much. i couldn't get the "G" to come up. now i know y.


TheVelvetFoxx posted Mon, 26 August 2002 at 1:26 AM

Did you ever find the "G"? This was one of the first things I was determined to master when learning Bryce. Now I have a blast with positive and negative booleans.


frndofyaweh posted Tue, 27 August 2002 at 10:13 AM

i got a "G"! and viola, part of my cube disappeared! i really DO have a "g"!heheheheh!!!!