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# 1 11-03-2005 , 08:38 PM

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Quick question for the experts. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

I am attaching an arm to a body using polygons. I am using a tutorial and it says to select the body hit enter and select the arm and hit enter and then go to Boolean- Union. Well I do that and I get an error saying

"This command requires at least 2 arguments to be specified ;1 found"

So it doesnt recognize when I hit enter for each one. Any suggestions on how to do it?

If anyone could help that would be great! Thanks.

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Post a pic up if you can so I can have a look at the geo.

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# 3 11-03-2005 , 09:31 PM

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This is what I have

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# 4 11-03-2005 , 09:34 PM

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I converted the original sub-d's into Polygons and it said to select the arm, hit enter, then select the body and hit enter, and then go to boolean- union.

What do you think from whats there? It is attached all the way around.

I think it might be something with my settings in Maya or something, but Im not sure.

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# 5 11-03-2005 , 09:39 PM

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sorry, not attached but the arm is going through the body, so there isnt any space

thanks for taking time to help me out, I really appriciate it

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# 6 11-03-2005 , 09:47 PM

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Originally posted by JDigital
I converted the original sub-d's into Polygons and it said to select the arm, hit enter, then select the body and hit enter, and then go to boolean- union.

What do you think from whats there? It is attached all the way around.

I think it might be something with my settings in Maya or something, but Im not sure.

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Well the steps are wrong... select the arm, hold down the SHIFT key, then select the body, then select edit polgons-->boolean-->union.

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# 7 12-03-2005 , 01:20 AM

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Well when I do that, this is what happens. So I am not sure what the deal is.

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# 8 12-03-2005 , 08:46 AM

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Looks like the arm is attached to the body, isn't that what you wanted?

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# 9 12-03-2005 , 03:22 PM

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Look at the hand though, it attaches to the body. How can I make it so it doesnt do that? The hand part isnt suppose to attach, just the base of the arm where the shoulder is suppose to be.

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So the boolean is bending the arm and attaching at the wrist also?

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# 11 12-03-2005 , 07:18 PM

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Yeah it is. But I finally figured it out. I dont know why it is blending the hand with the body, but I went in where it attached to the body from the hand and deleted the edges. Thanks for all the help recieved though, I appriciate it guys.

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# 12 12-03-2005 , 08:01 PM

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is this rigged? Boolean shouldn't bend anything...

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# 13 12-03-2005 , 08:54 PM

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What do you mean rigged?

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# 14 12-03-2005 , 09:00 PM

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lol, I'll take that as a no. Rigged i.e. has a jointed skeleton attached usually for animation or posing.

I've never seen boolean bend an object before so I though it might have been affecting a skeleton.

I know boolean operations are finicky about having open faces and vertex points too close together, but this is a new one for me. Anyone else seen this before?

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ahh I see, Rigged, got it! haha. No its not rigged.

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