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Preparing Boolean operands

Preparing Boolean operands - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Preparing Boolean operands

- [Instructor] To begin the chapter on polygon modeling, we'll start with Booleans, which is a technique for combining objects, either subtracting or adding, or finding the intersection along various volumes. And we'll use that to create holes for doors in our office walls here. I'm going to start from this wall over here, and in my scene it's labeled rectangle 001. Select that. Go in close in the top view, right-click in the top view and press the z key to zoom in, and what we have here is swinging doors, for two different rooms. And we need to cut holes for those doors. And we'll use boxes to do that. I'll maximize the top view with alt-w, and get in a little bit closer with the wheel, and notice that it's difficult to work, sometimes, in 3ds Max, because you need some objects to be in wireframe and other objects to have texturing and shading, and we don't have the ability in 3ds Max to set a flag per object, as to whether it will be shaded or not. If I press the F3 key to toggle…

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