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dervish
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Posted: 04-08-2012 05:23 PM

So I'm trying to make bent railing, and honestly I haven't a clue on how to go across doing this... I tried making it out of patch meshes, that went terrible..(I'm even too ashamed to post a picture of my sad sorry attempt) I'm sure it can be done that way but with extreme difficulty, at least for me.

This is what I'm trying to accomplish for this particular spot,

Basically I'm trying to eventually get the whole top rail(yellow) to about 90 degrees by the end, and have the support beams(blue) turn into sort of a staircase by sticking an invisible brush or patch mesh atop it to stop the player from falling in between the beams. What would be the best way to go about making this? Thanks in advance

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dervish
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Posted: 04-08-2012 05:24 PM

Oh and if you know of any tutorials or such that would aid me, that would be just as helpful as any response happy Easter

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^Ghost
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Posted: 04-09-2012 06:26 AM

easiest way would be to use cylinders and then vertex them as u see fit

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obsidian
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Posted: 04-09-2012 06:56 AM

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dervish
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Posted: 04-09-2012 07:43 PM

Ill give that a shot and post back on my results soon

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dervish
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Posted: 04-09-2012 08:55 PM

This is what i came up with after about 20 or so minuets I'm going to touch it up and do some more work before I decide if this is actually how i want it, but this method seems to be working great Thanks for the help! Criticism is greatly appreciated

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dervish
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Posted: 04-09-2012 09:04 PM

Oh, and sock, sorry about making your textures look like crap x) Pretty much all of it is temporary so don't be too worried ;P

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dervish
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Posted: 04-10-2012 02:01 PM

I'm going to redo the whole spot because I think it looks to much like mushy melted metal/playdough xD

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[acid]
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Posted: 04-10-2012 09:54 PM

I don't wonder that this guardrail broke. It's built out of cheese

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obsidian
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Posted: 04-11-2012 07:22 AM

I thought you wanted a curved metal railing. For a broken one, you might want to go take a look at some reference photos to study how they actually break. Metal doesn't turn into noodle when it breaks, it normally flexes at a certain point until it breaks off.

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dervish
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Posted: 04-11-2012 02:27 PM

haha Ok, I'll go do some research on my cheese noodle when I get around to it

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Eraser
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Posted: 04-11-2012 10:15 PM

Also might be easier to model such a thing?

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dervish
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Posted: 04-12-2012 05:46 PM

no experience nor firsthand knowledge of how to do so, this is the first level editing sort of thing I've endeavored on and I've only been doing so for a few months x)

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