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Terrain cutters in XSI? *Solved*

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:54 pm
by Rekubot
I'm not really sure how to lay this question out properly, but I'll give it a go. You know how you can cut into a piece of terrain in ZeroEditor with a terrain cutter model? Well, is that possible to do in XSI? For instance, say I created this huge ship but I wanted to give it an interior, could I make say a cube, give it certain properties, and then when I move it up into the ship a big square hole would appear there?

It seems like a much simpler solution than having to build a model, then use a ton of edges, vertexes or whatever to cut into the model piece by piece.

So, assuming it's possible, and also assuming that you somehow understood what I just said, how would I go about it?

Thanks in advance!

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:08 pm
by Redline
Read the Terraincutters Tutorial

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:12 pm
by Rekubot
As far as I'm aware that works for ZeroEditor only. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:35 pm
by Epena
And it only cuts terrain. Thus the name. ;)

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:53 pm
by squipple
Rekubot, what I think you're talking about is a Boolean.
Look it up in the help file of XSI for useage.

Booleans are good for static results, but almost never yield uniform geometry (edges lining up). Texturing can get to be an issue this way, and you can almost forget any sort of predictable nature when applying a deformation.

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:42 pm
by Qdin
yep :P

lol Redline and Epena, you two really busted yourselves; Didn'te ven read what the topic was about :P

If you have your own model, you can use Boolean as squipple so nicely posted here.

Basicly it has 3 different ways to calculate it. It basicly takes something and removes something from it :P

Easy to make a cube :wink:

do you need a small tutorial or..? :) maybe googling for a short Boolean Tutorial would be more faster and proffessional?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:36 pm
by Rekubot
No thanks Qdin, I did what squipple suggested and found a quick, easy tutorial and have already got it working. It's pretty useful, too. Thanks guys! :P

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