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Boolean operations not working

Postby allenh » Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:02 am

allenh Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:02 am
Hi again;

Another odd problem I'm running into in Octane for Houdini. I have a bolt head I've modeled in Houdini using the Cookie sop to subtract a hexagonal shape from a cylinder:
bolt_good.png


It renders as expect in Mantra, but Octane oddly seems to not want to render the hexagonal cutout:
boltBad.png


Any idea what might be up with this?
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Re: Boolean operations not working

Postby juanjgon » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:41 am

juanjgon Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:41 am
Can you attach this scene here? I'm not sure, the problem can be that this operation is building a polygon soup, or another kind of object not supported by the plugin. Usually, this problem can be fixed adding a convert to polymesh sop.

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Re: Boolean operations not working

Postby juanjgon » Fri Jan 06, 2017 7:31 pm

juanjgon Fri Jan 06, 2017 7:31 pm
The problem is that this polygon with a hole is not directly compatible with Octane, that only can work with simple convex polygons. You need to add to the object the Octane OBJ spare parameters and enable the "Tessellate NGons" option in the "Tessellation" tab to render this kind of objects.

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