[Jim Scott]

Mine looks just like Adam’s does if I turn off the boole. With the boole active, the sections working below the landscape change depending on how many segments the intersecting sphere is given.

Looking over the directions for embedding pictures/files in my posts, I have no idea how to access my “server/service provider account,” so I am at a loss as to how to do so.

Thanks for your help.

[Jim Scott]

Ok, Adam, I give up.

I tried to do exactly as you directed, but the end result only has a few small portions of the sphere below the landscape ending up solid.

When you said, “as long as all the vertices are welded,” was that another step that you didn’t mention in your first reply, or is that taken care of with the other steps?

When I’m done following your directions my landscape looks just like yours but doesn’t produce the same result in the boole.

Sorry for my ignorance, and I do very much appreciate the help.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks again Adam. I am sure it is just operator error on my part. I will take a look at your generously supplied example and see if I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks Adam,

As I am just a hobbyist with C4D, your suggestion here has taught me much. But while the result of your technique does create an enclosed landscape shape, there is still empty space under the landscape in the area generated by the boole. I suppose it is a natural handicap of Cinema that its 3D objects have only faces and no internal volume – they’re not really solid, but hollow – and that’s creating my problem.

To try to surmount this difficulty I have created another boole object that only includes the part of the globe that is under the landscape and then applied the same texture as the landscape (snow) so that it will appear solid from the outside view. Now if there was a plugin that created truly solid objects, that would solve my problem easily. But for now I seem to have found a way around it.

Thanks again for all your help.

[Jim Scott]

You are very welcome, Joe.

[Jim Scott]

Here you go:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/krm3pl65yos8v8s/Bell.obj?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2xb20xg249i7we/Candy%20Cane.obj?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e4thy7kaiqta38l/Gift.obj?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8xirrfhdp6mybj/Star.obj?dl=0

Happy holidays!

[Jim Scott]

Hi Joe, I would be glad to help you out. I have C4D R13, but I should be able to open and convert files from later versions.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks again Todd.

I found the culprit and removed it. It was GM FoldLayers that was causing the problem.

[Jim Scott]

Thanks for the input Todd.

I have many third-party plugins – Trapcode, Boris, Red Giant, Video Copilot, etc. – and many scripts, a few of which effect layers. Which layer folder plug-in was causing the problems? Short of removing plug-ins one by one, is there any way to find the culprit? And can scripts which are installed in the Scripts folder, but not in use, cause the same kind of problems as flaky plug-ins?

[Jim Scott]

That was a good thought, Dave, but unfortunately trashing preferences didn’t fix it.

Thanks anyway.