how to make a sphere?

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how to make a sphere?

Post by GoatFarmer » August 6th, 2005, 10:31 pm

how do u make a sphere?

like ill go into the patch option and the sphere option is not highlighted so i cant click on it...

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Post by Neon » August 6th, 2005, 11:08 pm

lol...i was goin to ask the same question....but never bothered...all i got out of plazma was that u had to patch at the top....tbh tht didnt really help me....

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Post by Drofder2004 » August 6th, 2005, 11:16 pm

Its quite hard to explain how to make a good looking shpere so I just made a prefab (Edit<Load Prefab)
http://rapidshare.de/files/3724802/sphere.pfb.html
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Post by Neon » August 6th, 2005, 11:38 pm

thx for tht....i think ill bother to start my map now then....does anyone use the UT2004 map editor?

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Post by GoatFarmer » August 7th, 2005, 1:55 am

Thanks a bunch man saved me a lot of time...

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Post by Pedsdude » August 7th, 2005, 3:44 pm

Could you explain it roughly drofder? Whenever I try and make one it dissappears :(
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Post by Drofder2004 » August 7th, 2005, 4:43 pm

Pedsdude wrote:Could you explain it roughly drofder? Whenever I try and make one it dissappears :(
Those of you who have used my original prefab. Use this 1, its twice as good :D

Explanation...
Well, its like using 2 cones... One on top of the other. But this doesnt give the nice round effect. So this is how I did it...

Make a 64 by 64 by 64 Square out of Caulk.
Go to the Font view first and make it a cylinder (Patch<Cylinder)
The press V to bring up 9 dots. Drag the top left and top right into the middle of the top. (It will look like some sort of circus tent :P).
Then switch view (Ctrl+Tab) to the Side view. And do the same (V, then drag top left and right to the top middle). (It hould now look like the top half of an rugby ball or American football ball for you Americans :P)
Stay in the Side view and press V again (so the dots are visible) and click and drag the top middle dot down to the centre dot. You will now have half a sphere.
Now, Copy (Space) the half sphere and rotate it 180 degrees on its X-Axis (or Y-Axis) and place at the bottom of your first half.

And there you have a Sphere. :)

Peds, do not use a normal brush, this will cause problems (Infinite brushes and nodes without volume ;))

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