Clean Booleans in Maya

Booleans have a habit of creating a bunch of n-gons. In this tutorial, I show you how to achieve clean results with the Boolean tool inside of Maya.
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[@kurocatstudio1336]

this is what i was looking for. thanks

[@aranzan3975]

Thank YOU for this nice tutorial.

[@mainakmondal6141]

Thanks for making this video 🖤🖤

[@user-pq4yj7iu6l]

Very grateful. I'm delighted with this Logic tool. But many people really fear it and avoid it, but I save time on it.

[@supermassivedonut]

thank you! I freaking hated booleans as it always jacks up my topology and makes the hole look like a weird soggy bit. This helped me understand how to manually fix and give it more supporting subdivisions.

[@iso0k]

Another easy to follow video, absolutely brilliant !

[@JoshAntonio]

Thanks man! :-)

[@richardbernardo5531]

Salvou a minha vida. Muito obrigado pelas dicas.

[@Mikelica69]

Ty!!

[@georgetremors9118]

Aren't you likely to get distortions in the smooth preview when you adjust the edge flow of the major shape after you cut the second cylinder out?

[@Robstrap]

This is made even easier (for more complex models) with Mayas new remesh & retopologize tools. Just do the booleans, remesh then retopoligize and alot of the time you're left with a really clean model

[@TheSushicat311]

Your channel is too underrated dude

[@JoshAntonio]

I'm glad you find my channel helpful! :)

[@xdominant786]

thank u bro

[@multiplex4701]

Very help full. More tutorials please 🙏😭

[@dq9342]

thanks! good and clear instructions ....awesome video editing. 1 more subscriber

[@JoshAntonio]

Thanks! Glad you liked 👍

[@jelenamarinkovic4765]

very helpfull, thank you so much

[@JoshAntonio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@vesselofcalamity8107]

I just want to say thank you so much for this hahaha... I've been struggling with this.

[@JoshAntonio]

Glad the video could help 🙂

[@qsef90]

cool

[@siddheshpatil3740]

Osm dude 🔥

[@JoshAntonio]

Thanks man 👌

[@alfiedole8724]

I want to understand this and more buf im unsure of where to begin could anyone help

[@HardyMvZ_1997]

You deserve 10 Million views on it

[@JoshAntonio]

Haha would be nice! XD

[@taliesinriver]

This works but it isn't a great strategy for getting a smooth result - moving the original edges around like that creates distortion.

[@samanwaybasak3305]

❤️❤️❤️

[@jijivishant]

great video josh, i wanted to ask a question. when i retopologise a boolean model sometimes it kind of goes green and i have to insert a new shader, why does it happen?

[@jijivishant]

@Some one sometimes ai standard also goes green but it's alright, i usually assign a new one. I think it's not that big of a problem 😅 great content btw

[@BuckFangs]

I thought there was a magic answer to my woes but alas there isn't

[@marshallmadethat]

hey i applied booleans and did a retopo also but i got issues in mesh,there is hidden edges under the faces how do i get rid of that? its a stubborn edges no matter how many times i deleted its not going.

[@MrOiram46]

Go to Vertex Face mode and select the edges (they’re going to select like vertices) you want to delete, then go to Select > Convert Selection > To Faces and then you can delete the hidden edges.
Most of the time, the “hidden edges” are really very narrow faces that are very difficult to select in other modes.

[@gayanipradeepa6676]

👍

[@fsalad]

❤🦍

[@prasadparker6303]

Suddenly I don't know what happen.... Maya is saying "my shelf cannot be readable". PLZ help sir...
edit: even I deleted my all my Maya files and copied again from my backup folder... it is showing still it cannot be readable.

[@dkrauss8672]

I liked watching this tutorial and found it interesting. However when I tried to copy this, I ran into numerous issues that you glossed over and/or didn't mention/explain. Would have been helpful for those of us newer users.
I wanted to update this and say that after doing the tutorial again, really making sure to attend to all the nuances, I was able to get good results. This was a really helpful exercise especially as a person who is quite new to some of these tools. Thanks again.

[@cryterion7770]

Maybe you could explain for anybody reading the comment?

[@timothyj67]

using maya2023 and sometimes it wants to work, and then it doesnt..when I was trying to extrude the one hole to give it a edge loop, the face of the area around it covered up the hole automatically

[@avatr7109]

Install Blender .

[@mat3441]

@@avatr7109 why regress

[@Brandon-zd2vc]

Noticed you are using voice meeter, have you ever had an issue where it crashes once every 30-60mins, it really bugs me, nice work btw.

[@JoshAntonio]

Mmm no I haven't but I do sometimes get a weird pop with their virtual A & B outputs/inputs

[@bharghavreddy5093]

how to make that type of intros? please help me

[@vipermjs]

this method creates bending. you need more spans in your curve prior to the boolean operation if u want a clean result.

[@daniboiyy]

1st

[@iso0k]

Fight me rn

[@ClassyCrustatio]

what's with the echo?