[Bf-committers] Realtime booleans

car bf-committers@blender.org
Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:35:13 -0400


Sketchup 4 has this. It is very nice for showing the insides of 
buildings and such as Campbell explains below.

Look at the demo tapes at http://www.sketchup.com/ or just the very 
simple gif movie at the front of the page That is something"

On Jul 12, 2004, at 5:21 AM, Daniel Fairhead wrote:

> Campbell:
>
> Sounds very cool! It would also be very useful for "cut-away" type
> pictures, visulization and such. I recently had to build a 3d mockup
> of a theatre I was possibly going to be envolved in re-building (in 
> RW),
> and in order to make renders of the inside of the building which showed
> more than one room (archetextural type pics) I had to use all kinds of
> nasty tricks with the Min and Max clipping planes. RTBs (Real Time 
> Booleans)
> would save a lot of time for this. The way I had thought of doing this 
> though
> was a non-mesh-changing idea, but making giving a material a 
> "clipping" flag,
> and then at render time not rendering anything within 2 
> clipping-material faces.
> One of these days I may try again to get it to work...
>
> Anyway, Please work on your idea! It would be extremely cool, and very 
> well
> used (by me!). Go Bro! :-)
>
> Dan
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