Clipping and rotating brushes

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » February 21st, 2006, 2:33 pm

Does anyone know of a easy way to get rotated brushes to butt up against each other? I've clipped the corners off a square brush and clipped them again and this is where my problem comes into play. The brush i rotate comes fairly close to joining the clipped brush but either one side is touching and the other isn't or the brushes are inside eachother.

I've set the grid to 1 but I still can't get them to align.

Thanks

Luke · Post by **Luke** » February 21st, 2006, 4:05 pm

I try to avoid rotating brushes that need to be connected to another...its best to use the clipper tool on both brushes

Post by **Drofder2004** » February 21st, 2006, 6:18 pm

If you are going to rotate, make sure you are set to about gridsize 3/4 minimum. Rotating in anything smaller will not provide good results.

Clipper all the way.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » February 21st, 2006, 10:56 pm

Drofder2004 wrote:If you are going to rotate, make sure you are set to about gridsize 3/4 minimum. Rotating in anything smaller will not provide good results.

Clipper all the way.

Ok, thanks I will try that.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » February 22nd, 2006, 1:50 am

For the record: I tried it and it didn't work.

Post by **Drofder2004** » February 22nd, 2006, 1:18 pm

Lisa wrote:For the record: I tried it and it didn't work.

Upload some images of what you are trying t do, this way I can tell you the best way of doing it.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » February 22nd, 2006, 11:56 pm

Drofder2004 wrote:
Lisa wrote:For the record: I tried it and it didn't work.
Upload some images of what you are trying t do, this way I can tell you the best way of doing it.

Well I've given up on trying this and Luke offered to help but I figure I might want to know how to do it again in the future (or someone else may) so here is a pic.http://mysite.verizon.net/vzerw398/site ... brush1.jpg

Post by **Nightmare** » February 23rd, 2006, 1:02 am

What I would do in your case it press V so I can drag the edges up to the wall, but thats just me and my noobish way of mapping

Post by **Drofder2004** » February 23rd, 2006, 1:20 am

The reason you getting this problem is simply bad angle. Whatever you are ttrying to line it up to is at a terrible angle. You could use V (or E) and that would work, but thats honestly bad mapping practice.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » February 23rd, 2006, 1:51 am

So using the clipper is the correct answer?

Post by **Drofder2004** » February 23rd, 2006, 2:19 am

Lisa wrote:So using the clipper is the correct answer?

never rotate at a low grid size, if possible use the clipper.

Luke · Post by **Luke** » February 23rd, 2006, 2:39 pm

Yeah, just practice using the clipper, it can be tricky to get things to align perfect sometimes.

For an example, if you wanted to create a brush between the 2 dots

The way i do it is first draw a brush between the 2 points u want to join to

The brushes its joining to are 1 unit, so clip the inside 1 unit in

So now you've clipped that side it should look like this

Now do the same on the other side

And then you should have your brushes joined up nicely

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » February 23rd, 2006, 6:20 pm

Very nice demonstration. Thanks Luke, maybe I will try to do it in my map afterall.

Post by **Nightmare** » February 23rd, 2006, 10:27 pm

Thats a pretty clever way of doing it Luke

Clipping and rotating brushes

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