spiral pillar

How would someone go about making the spiral column in this screenshot in hammer.

http://balticom-141-143.balticom.lv/maps/cs16/DE_Arkanos%5Bfinal%5D/de_arkanos%5Bfinal%5D0002.jpg

I tried but i got an error with every brush. I made a star pattern,
copied it up a bunch of times, and rotated each piece 10 degrees. I
then lined up the bottom verteces. All brushes were triangles so I
don't know why there were errors.

Any help?

you'll drive yourself mad if you keep trying to make that in hammer, though it's quite a good subject for a first model.

---

i eat paint

Actually it's very simple. If you go here

http://twhl.co.za/mapvault_map.php?id=3988

It's pretty easy really. I was doing it right, I just didn't split the brush correctly.

Ah, the spiral pillar debate! Yeah, you would not believe what you can do with brushwork, for HL1!

Some images in this post have been automatically down-sized, click on them to view the full sized versions:

Not really easy, but more versatile. You can generalize ReNo's fine triangle terrain tutorials to make literally ANY shape you have the polycount for in hammer. Helix anyone?



Download Example Map

---

Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

Some images in this post have been automatically down-sized, click on them to view the full sized versions:

Because I felt like it. Keep in mind that this is a low-poly version. I'm sure you could make it look much smoother, but you'd be wasting allot of your performance budget.



Download Example Map

---

Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

:smile: I'd still say that it'll be lot faster to model than make it out of
brushes. That's if you have the tools. Nice work though TB.

---

''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

Perhaps, but that depends on your skill-set. It took me less than 30 min to figure out how to do the pillar in hammer. I don't know any modeling tools, so this was by far the fastest way.