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animating without the stupid boole tool
I’ve been googling this for a bit and searching forums, but no luck. Any advice is much appreciated
So I’ve got this text that I want to animate by having large linear chunks of it disappear (see attached file). In my after effects oriented mind the immediate solution was to use a track matte. “What’s the C4D equivalent of a mask?” I asked myself, “Why a Boole of course!” Only now I’ve discovered that the Boole tool kinda sucks and is considered the plague by most. So how else would I go about having cube like chunks of fillet-capped text disappear?
Here is a link to my file,, I’ve been at this for almost two weeks now no progress,, could really use the help.
https://www.mediafire.com/?0r38t7r4zs4rmsc -
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for what you are doing particularly, since the text isn’t too complex, Boole isn’t a bad way. It would help (in this case) to turn off High Quality in the Booles to get rid of some of the artifacting. High Quality isn’t always the best choice depending on the shapes involved.
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Brian’s suggestion about not using “high quality” certainly produces a better result, but IMO you’d be better off using the spline mask object to cut the actual splines instead of trying to cut the extruded geometry. Forgive the crappy interpretation of your nice animation: 1710_logocutanimation.c4d.zip
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