[Grimloq]

ever time i try to use a boolean in truespace, no matter where, or with what, or anything, it always just adds a few buggy lines there, and says 'truespace has detected a possible problem. please save your work and restart truespace'

every time! i dont know what im doing wrong!!! ive messed with the identity, ive messed with triangulate first and delete lines, but it still doesnt work.

booleans will only seem to work if the 2 things being booleaned are not even touching eachother.

any ideas why this is happening? i suspect its something about me not having enouh RAM (one 256MB stick) and a lousy vid card.

[Black Wolf]

*Stifles comment about Max*

[Bobboau]

don't use booliens.

realy they are an advanced tool you need to be able to take care of all the little problems assosiated with them and in order to do that you need to be able to basicly do everything you would want without them.

[Grimloq]

Originally posted by Black Wolf
*Stifles comment about Max*

  dont go there...

bobb: yeah, i know, but theyre very useful. whats so weird about this is that i know how to make them happy and have them work. i can do most boolean stuff without booleans, but not all.

hey.... *got an idea**will check back here after he tries it*

[Grimloq]

w00t! fixed the problem. i was being stupid, and was jsut in general not doing the right stuff. i fixed it now, though.

bobb: i dont use booleans a lot, dont worry and each time i do its followed by a LOT of model repairing. im very careful...

[KARMA]

what Bob said...
you have to know exactly what booleans do in order to use em, I mean that you must be aware of what they will cause to your geometry in prder to seek and correct all the instabilities caused by booleans.
 Experiment them, but don't use them for final models except in extremely simple situations, unless you feel you have full control over all your edges/verts

[Grimloq]

after i use a boolean, i usually rebuild most of the faces around it. its safer.