subdivision tunnels, allright. now bend you %^$!@#

Its probably allready quite obvious.

But I was wondering what is a good way to take a tunnel, made out of subdivisions, and get a bend in it, 30, 45 or 90 degrees.

Any nice ways to do that?

I know how to do it with plain cylinders, and toruses, but really thats a lot of brushwork and vertex-manipulation to get it right (they NEVER line up do they)

Anyone have anything on that?

Seriously I can make about anything with brushes but I understood that its faster and cleaner to do it with subdivisions (makes sense doesnt it :wink: )

http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/Tunnels

Thanks, but I did see that tutorial allready. :biggrin:

Its not that its not possible that way, I can bend all the sides myself in the right direction, then subdivide to make them nice and round.

Its just a hell of a lot of work to do that for every bend, especially when you want really round tunnels.

I was wondering if there is a better, and quicker way.

Thanks for the quick response though.

How long does it take you then? I actually found it a pretty fast method...

Oh, and better usually doesn't mean faster... too bad... :wink:

/grammar nazi: it's spelt "always", just the one l, not that hard or advanced :razz:

Subdivisions, eh... Hmm, if only I'd known before investing all those hours on a torus!

/word nazi: the word was "allready" anyway :wink:

Congrats on the 10k snarkmarks btw Leperous, hehe.

/screams inside :biggrin:

Captain P,

Its very well possible I am doing it all wrong, or at least the slower way?

Care to explain what you do?

Like I said earlier, I want to create a subdivision-tunnel nice and round, with a bend in it, say 45 dregrees?

How would you go about that?

Thanx :wink:

I don't think that it's possible to make curving tunnels with displacement sfcs. Since everything has to be at 90 degree angles. At least that has been my experience is that only 90 degrees works right.

Seems possible to me shrug just followed the same rules as normal displacement surfaces: http://img44.exs.cx/img44/9278/curvedcave0pe.jpg

If you want a perfectly round tunnel with a 45 turn I would go with the primitive/torus rather than using subdivision. Other wise, with displacements, I think you can just build a bunch of perfect cubes (lets say 192x192) next to each other... line them all up to make a rough outline of the curve, then go into the face editor tool and select the faces on the inside of the tunnel ONLY, and then subdivide. This should do what you want.

I remade the sandpit on Tatooine from Star Wars: RotJ using this method. :smile:

you can subdivide until the cows come home.....vertex manipulation is your friend... :heee:

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

Sorry for the late reply, I had some issues to deal with first (job, church). I was asked for an explanation, so here it is:



Although not very clear due to my resizing and such, you can see I
translated some brushes in the middle, and these can be dismapped as
well as other, rectangular, brushes. You see I've created 4 brushes,
where all the inner faces share their edges with their neighbours.
Selecting all at once and making dismaps of them, then pressing the
subdivide button and voila, a nice round tunnel with a blend in it.
Easy and fast... enough explanation, morpheus77?

I actually have found that subdividing large areas can get pretty tricky (I'm doing a long canal) but I'm getting the hang of it, I think.