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lots of holes??

aliendoughnutaliendoughnut Posts: 40
in Hexagon Discussion

Hi I am modeling a mac pro tower. what is the best method for modeling the front alluminium with all the holes? I will exporting to bryce so i could use a bolean method in bryce to do this but is there a way to do this in Hexagon? thanks

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  • AscaniaAscania Posts: 1,855

    An alphamap

  • aliendoughnutaliendoughnut Posts: 40

    Managed to solve this problem after looking through some previous posts here. just a small test section to see if it worked

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  • aliendoughnutaliendoughnut Posts: 40

    Managed to solve this problem after looking through some previous posts here. just a small test section to see if it worked

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,836

    You are going to end up with a lot of geometry for very little benefit, unless you are rendering an extreme closeup of just the holes. A transparency map applied to the material surface would be much more efficient, I think.

  • ShawnDriscollShawnDriscoll Posts: 375

    Cool. You found a way. Hex shapes seems the way to go.

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