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1. how to animate a hole

   

   Topic by fenderbender · Apr 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   hi everyone I have a question. how do I animate a hole something like in the picture? I'm using max btw. thanks in advance :)

2. Re: how to animate a hole

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Apr 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   It really depends on what this is for as to how you approach it. If it's just for rendering, you could approach it a few ways, the easiest probably being to animate an operand in a proBoolean.

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   Reply by martinszeme · Apr 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Also you could add a volume of rocks that surround the potential hole and using volume select and delete mesh modifiers create an animation of rocks being crunched up.

4. Re: how to animate a hole

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Apr 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   That all depends on the meshes. In the example I cooked up just now it never went much higher than ~300 polys. Make sure you are using a PRO-Boolean and not just a boolean. ProBooleans recalcuate the triangulation and vert count on each frame, I think regular booleans just keep multiplying

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   Reply by fenderbender · Apr 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   sorry i forgot to mention its just for rendering.. thank you mark for the suggestion.. a question, i have tried using this proboolean, is it normal after i subtract my mesh it leave quite a lot of unwanted vert?