Ya know those cool railings, like stairway railings and scaffolding, everytime i try to make them, i dont know the best way, i use cylinders and rotate them to the best shape, but i always get errors saying something about vertex manipulation creating unusable faces or something. Whats the bast way to make railings, fences, trusses ect?

I need some railing and trusses in a map im making, fences dont really matter, but the hand rails for stairs and banistars are really starting to annoy me, they either dont look right, or wont show up because of bad vertex editing. When i havent even touched on vertex editing, its getting silly

Thanks in advance.

Adrian

The best thing to use is a Prop_Static. There you can choose whatever model you want, just look through the folders. There's loads of railings, fences etc. Prop_Statics can be moved around, rotated, resized etc. so they're very flexible.

Hope that helps

Edit: You beat me to it, Lep!

Another way to make railings is to just make a func_detail brush, and apply one of the several railing textures. This way you can just scale your brush to make it as big as you want. Look at the tools railing texture to see how big to make your brush, I think it was something like 40 tall. Valve did many of their railings this way.

It may not be as detailed as using a prop, but it's eaiser to do, and you can have more variety this way.