I’m making a tool to create and modify a ring by using grabbable kangaroo points to alter the shape. I’ve managed to keep the script fast enough so that dragging the points doesn’t feel jittery or laggy by only doing the boolean operations at the very end with a toggle.
The finished ring is a boolean difference of a circular pipe and a cylinder. I want to calculate the volume of the finished ring after boolean difference in real time, but seeing as a boolean operation makes the script laggy, I don’t know how to proceed.
Is there a way, maybe with a custom script, to calculate the intersecting volume of the cylinder and pipe so that I can subtract it from the volume of the pipe?
I suppose you can make make bounding boxes for the objects, then calculate the overlapping volume of these, and then calculate volumepoints as “voxels” of this and check each point to see if it is inside both objects, but I don’t know how fast/slow this will be.
I want to the boolean operation, but only in the end. If I enable the boolean component while editing the ring, the edits I do are jittery and laggy. If I first do all the edits and only then do the boolean operation, the process runs smoother.
But I want to know the volume of the end result before actually doing the boolean.
This could work, but I wasn’t clear on the editing of the ring.
The idea is to make the ring thicker or thinner at certain points and adjust the height, as shown in the picture.
I can get multiple sections, but this formula probably won’t work then?
