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Blender Tutorial - Boolean operations

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Uploaded by on Feb 4, 2008

Well, if you remember the last 4 grades of primary school, you'll be alright.
Basically, it's whatever you wanted to know and I kept it a secret... until now.

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  • I cannot get it I have 2.5 version. Will it work???

  • @99chuckyboy

    Yeah, in 2.5 it's a bit trickier. Instead of selecting the objects and pressing W, you have to select one object, go to the Modifiers tab, add modifier -> Boolean, then choose the object with which the modifier works.

    A pretty dumb and useless change on their behalf, if you ask me.

  • how do you avoid artifacts in the rendering. I've tried this modifier with text and I always get ugly tares when rendered. Is there a way to keep it from using triangles?

  • @bnewton81

    Unfortunately, no, I just get lucky from time to time. But inserting a cube through a sphere and trying to smooth it down won't work.

    There are some situations in which the operator runs perfectly, but most of the times, it just screws up.

  • @agent47crows So how do you deal with this? Is there any way to fix it? Can you correct the edge flow or something.

  • @bnewton81

    Not really. I try to use booleans as less as possible.

    A way to get a clean(er) mesh is by subdividing a lot around the area you plan to screw up, so that the rest of the mesh is not going to get screwed up as well. Edge loops are great for that.

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  • All i have to say is, awesome. This guy does a great tutorial with some thing to make me laugh. Keep it up man!

  • A very helpful video! Thanks a lot!

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  • great now i feel stupid cos im to old and been outta school and dont remember math. dammit i wanna learn this i have 2.49b and 2.61 and i cant cut a dam hole in a circle or even cut the hole. 2.49b keeps giving errors on the boolean tool and i cant even locate it in 2.61...damn 5hrs down the drain

  • "blender has stopped working"

  • @TheMetalVagabond

    Ha! Glad you liked it :D

  • @TheMetalVagabond

    Thanks for refreshing my mind! Age, eh?

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