• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Making holes in a sphere object.

  Posted by Greg Paterson on February 23, 2006 at 1:13 am

  Greetings,

  I need to make some nice smooth round holes on the surface of a model which is based on a sphere primative.

  I have attempted to use a boolean for this but the results are not nice …ie not a smooth clean hole.

  What is the best approach to this.?

  Thanks

  Greg

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 20 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Nolan Scott

  February 23, 2006 at 1:42 am

  Well, if you spike your sphere with a few cylinders in your choosen size –
  maybe group the cylinders in a null and increase the segments in the sphere
  maybe to 48 – put them all in a Boole-Object (the sphere in first position) –
  either A subtract B or A without B.
  I find the holes look very
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  Greg Paterson

  February 23, 2006 at 3:12 am

  Thanks Nolan,

  Yes, probably not enough cylinder segments in my first attaempt.

  Cheers

  Greg
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  February 23, 2006 at 4:12 pm

  Another approach is to use a bitmap in the alpha channel–if the sphere doesn’t have thickness.

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