Why is my Boolean not woking???????

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Am I doing something wrong here ?? I just want to make a hole in this cylinder… I am following what my mentor is saying in Coursera and I am not getting the same result he is getting :neutral_face:
I am using UE 5.5.1

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For a boolean to work there should be in intersection between the two meshes. Your smaller mesh is inside of the larger one so you won’t see the boolean operation from that view. You would need to go into the mesh to see the result

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Moving the internal mesh higher you can see it in the view-port on the outside

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@3dRaven thank you so much, it’s working. You are truly a Q&A Sage. Will it be okay with you if I harass you with questions when I am stuck with my studies :face_holding_back_tears:

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Sure, just don’t go overboard. Learning & discovering stuff by yourself is half of the fun :slight_smile:

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thanks @3dRaven here’s another, why is my stairs keeps disappearing :joy:

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You have a base engine asset that you tried to modify. You cannot change engine assets.
You need to find whatever base asset was used and duplicate it for the modelling tool to work with it.

Unreal will generate a clone of the engine asset along with a string called a GUID (global identifier)

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for example a cube would become:

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Try to find the default object that you tried to modify, duplicate it and the error should go away, then hopefully you should be able to place the stairs.

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@3dRaven Thanks for your help but I am not sure what you are talking about. I will do some research about this and will let you when I placed my first stairs.

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Notice that when you are adding the stairs the wall is already selected for some reason. I’m guessing a wall may be the Engine asset.

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@3dRaven I tried for few hours and I am still not able to figure this out which is why I decided to start building another tower and now I am able to create stairs. Luckily, I am still in phase 1 in this project which is why I decided to start a new one but what if I was halfway through in the project :grimacing: that would’ve been nightmare. If you got the time, could you make a video please for this one. I think I have to create my first game to pass and I’m halfway in this course. THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP!!