Making a sphere in VHE

Hi everyone...

I was wondering if there is a way to make a sphere solid in Valve Hammer Editor? Just like the block, wedge, spike, arch and cylinder. If there is a way to make a sphere could someone please let me know? Thanks in advance!! :smile:

There is a way... but you have to make the sphere out of blocks, wedges etc. I think theres a tutorial out there somewhere, and some prefab spheres, but I dont know where, sorry.

Thanks Wil5on, I'll have a search.

mazemaster had a tutorial.. go find it.

http://www.snarkpit.net/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=27

Thanks Orpheus, I was just wondering, if I make many of them, will that affect my r_speeds and wpoly count? Thanks again!

will that affect my r_speeds and wpoly count?

It depends on how well you make them, how many of them you make, and
where you place them. In general, yes. It affects the r_speeds (which
are the wpoly and epoly count).

**Dedi** said:
Thanks Orpheus, I was just wondering, if I make many of them, will that affect my r_speeds and wpoly count? Thanks again!

anytime :smile:

Wow, I didn't realize there was no sphere primitive, I guess I never
needed a sphere until HL2 ... Thats weird. But yeah theres probably a
tutorial floating around, not trivial, but not too difficult.
Personally I would use 2 cylinders orthogonal to each other using ones
outline as points to chop the other one.

chop

I'm not sure what youd end up with with that, but probably not a sphere :/

Yeah you would. You clip (chop, whatever!) the vertical cylinder
into levels based on the height of the horizontal cylinders
verts. Then you select all the vertices on one level and scale
them so they match the vertices of the horizontal one.

y dont u just get the block tool, change the primitive "block" to "sphere" and create a 16X16X16 box

CrapinaBottle said:
y dont u just get the block tool, change the primitive "block" to "sphere" and create a 16X16X16 box

because 3.4 doesn't have the "sphere" option perhaps?

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