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Boolean masking of cloned clones
I am building a cobblestone driveway mockup. I made a pattern of six cobblestones then linear-cloned them with an X offset to make a long line. Then I cloned THAT clone and linear-cloned them in Y to make a solid ‘field’ of cobblestones. Now I need my curved driveway shape to “mask” the field so that the cobblestones appear only on the driveway.
When I try spline-masking or boolean operations on the final clone, nothing works. Apparently booleans will not work on clones of clones. Is that correct?
Any ideas how I might accomplish what I need to do? Thanks.
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Unless I am misunderstanding your question, I don’t have a problem using a boole with clones of clones. Here I have used a boole (A intersect B) to create a path of flattened cubes made up of clones of clones intersecting with a capsule that has a bend deformer applied. Perhaps you could post your project file so that we could take a look at it.
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Thanks! I see it is in fact working for you. Here is a stripped-down version of what I’m trying to do.
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And now, for some reason it’s working. Ugh. Thank you for letting me know it *should* work – I’m not sure what I did differently but now I’ve got it going. I appreciate it.
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