Hello and thank you for your time.

I’m trying to animate and control a ProBoolean cut I have created, but I find it difficult to control or do what I am trying to go for.

In a simple description: I have a series of blades that are morphing or growing upwards in a sequentional series (please see video or images). The blades are growing upwards by being morphed in vertex space.
At the top of the blades I have a ProBoolean operation instanced on all of the blades so that they are being specifically cut at the top(see images), and they morph through the cutting operand.
As the blades morph upwards, they are being boolean cut, but what I want to do is turn off the boolean cut after the blade has been cut, and then let the blade continue to morph and grow upwards.

The video and images will explain everything better and show you what I want to achieve.

The basic question is: Is there a way to animate the boolean cut so I can turn it off during the morph process? Or is there a better technique to do this?

Thanks again. K

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Here is the video

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Here is the video again…

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If you’re trying to attach a video it probably won’t work. Either zip it first, or upload it to a file sharing site and link to it. And follow the other guidelines here.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

You could animate the cutting object away with a step key at the frame you want the cut to go “off”.

Here is the video that is zipped. :)

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NVidia Quadro FX 4600 768MB
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