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Using Live Booleans

Using Live Booleans

- [Man] The word Boolean may sound funny or unfamiliar, but it's a powerful and intuitive way of thinking about shapes. Lots of objects that we use every day are essentially made up of simpler shapes that have been combined or have had the shape of one object cut out of another. ZBrush has some simple tools for helping us work this way. So let's take a look. Okay, so in order to combine shapes, we actually have to have at least two shapes to work with. So let's go ahead and append a new primitive go to append and get the sphere 3D. Now it's a little bit on the big side, so let me scale up the gargoyle to match. So we've got the gargoyle selected I'll just make the gargoyle quite a bit bigger here and now what we can do is select the sphere and we can set it to a different Boolean mode. By default, objects are on combined mode, which is additive. So let's switch this to subtractive. Now, if you're not seeing this…

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