Circular Brushes?

[primaltheory]

I Used search this time! Found nothing!

How would you make a circular brush? even a half circle cut into a sqaure (for a jumppad?)

[Foo]

http://fps.brainerd.net/patchmesh.htm

[primaltheory]

Oh you can't use brushes at all? Damn, sometimes these meshes piss me off, I have no problem using them but I like using brushes...

[obsidian]

Depending on what you want to build, either brushes or patches can be used to create any kind of circular or curved shapes. Whether you should choose to use brushes or patches depends on the situation, ease of use and possible performance benefits.

It's in the manual:
http://www.qeradiant.com/manual/Q3Rad_M ... htm#tools2
http://www.qeradiant.com/manual/Q3Rad_M ... htm#tools3

[primaltheory]

spellcheck much?

1. Detail brushes are less likely to cause additional cuts to occur in non-detail brushes that they touch ... thus reducing triangle counts. This can help reduce frame rate.


Why would I wanna reduce frame rate? :icon32:

Ok I never knew about those brushes, are the used often or no?

[pjw]

Ok I never knew about those brushes

That's because detail brushes are Q3. It's probably a good idea when you post a new topic to make it clear that you're asking about Q4. This is still the Q3 LE&M forum.

Curved shapes (in Q3 or Q4) are usually best done with patches, and then monster/player clipped afterwards. You can do some pretty intricate sort-of-curved shapes with brushes, depending on how small of a grid you want to drop to, and how much clipping up you want to do, but it's usually more trouble than it's worth, IMO.

[primaltheory]

Yea it is, I hate them because they are easy to make the main part but to cap them off its a pita.

(From now on I'll put (q4) in my topic titles)