Polygons- ahh, Boolean Union doesn't work, what's wrong???

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# 1 10-04-2005 , 10:23 PM

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Polygons- ahh, Boolean Union doesn't work, what's wrong???

I am working on a model and i try to perform boolean union operation and the 2 objects just dissappear when i click boolean union... what could be wrong? they are simply objects too, and they are good in position... please help...thanx!! user added image

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# 2 10-04-2005 , 10:32 PM

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delete the history of both objects, and then save it, close maya, open it again, try to the booleans thing, should work, if it doesnt, pm me

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# 3 11-04-2005 , 05:31 PM

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in the cartoon dog tutorial, its talked about how to combine when the boolean union doesnt work

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# 4 12-04-2005 , 04:52 AM

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Originally posted by tecone
in the cartoon dog tutorial, its talked about how to combine when the boolean union doesnt work

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what if you are doing Boolean Difference, and that doesn't work either, then what do you do cuz the technique in the cartoon dog tut. doesn't work on Boolean Difference

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# 5 14-04-2005 , 10:40 PM

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boolean is unpredictable, if it doesnt work then you'll have to do it manually- line up the lines of both objects to the area you want to combine.

then polygons-> combine
then right click-> vertex
then edit polygons -> merge vertexs.

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