Boolean problem

Hi everybody

I'm trying to make an auxiliar headlight to my car. I tried using Boolean with a sphere but it doen't work properly...


I made a preview in Photoshop of how it would look in 3dsmax

Is there an easy way to make it without the need of making a new front spoiler with de headlight joined on it?

Thanks again

explain what happened when u tried the boolean...

Well I tried the boolean with a sphere and it just made a circular hole on the car spoiler, and didn't get a deep parabola on it, what would be the light reflector.

u cant try using different shapes?

booleans are a nightmare with Max and rarely give great results as the mesh afterwards is messy,

you usually need to make sure that the mesh is completely capped off with zero holes in the mesh to make it work (even if its only a temporary cap just for the boolean operation. Looks like at least the slice edge down the middle is one big hole in your mesh, try capping it and boolean'ing again

or you could try shapemurge using a spline curcule to get the basic shape and just extrude it bac... might help

or just get the boliean plugin for max power bolieans this is what was made becouse max is cr*p at bolieans

huh man boolean that is totaly **** in max it will not work the way you want,

here i am giving you a tip,

go to face and select the faces where you like to headlight be then delete the unwanted faces,

then go to vertex mode or edge mode then extrude them back, i usualy doing mine like this,

hope this one will help you.

I Have the same problem I dont know if im allowed to post over someone elses well ok, ahh my problem is when I boolean i get a bunch of faces unwanted when I did what you said for delete them it messes it up and when I looked in the prospective it has like a whole right through the object like its just infit expand ahh inside as if hallow... what i do wrong?



^ these are the unwanted faces, what I have is a cylinder and I put it in like in a little not all the way I just need it carved out so it looks like the model I want it to look like...

right click on the word perspective in your view port from pop up menu chose configuration the window will appear from the window find out the word (force-2sided) and then check mark the balnk check mark box, that will solve your problem,


good luck!

Ok and nothing happened I dont understand what was suppose to happen, even after I did that i redid the whole Boolean and those faces are there and I delete them and the circle isnt there...

Yeah, It's not capped, I'll try to cap it and make the boolean.

select the side edges and then extrude them backward.

Which side edges?

i am talking about the boolean edgeds,