Cutting and merging?

[laughterkillsme]

I'm trying to figure out how to cut a hole in a box to creat a window/door etc ... also how to merge 2 objects together ... like one room to another ... anyhelp is greatly appreciated

 

[Deleter]

use the clip tool to create a hole. you can use carve, but this is a very bad habit. use the first half of this tutourial to create a hole. - http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/Levels/displacements_holes.html as far as merging, i havent seen any tool capable of this yet.

 

[laughterkillsme]

alright thanks bud,

and damn on the larck of merging .. hehe .. In the Max Payne 2 editor I would create maps room by room and than put them together like a puzzle when I was done lol =\

 

[Angry Lawyer]

Carve - eurgh. The best way to make a hole is to plan ahead for where it's going to be. Instead of one big rectangle for the wall, use four seperate ones, put together so there's a space for where the hole will be.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[trebhome]

whats wrong with carve....everyone says its so bad but really it does the same thing that you would have to do, with the four walls for a hole thing. I dont think carving is so bad, It can be your friend.

 

[Deleter]

ok, for a simple 4 sided hole, sure. but you get into cylinders and who knows what else, your brush can turn into 10000000 brushlets in a milisecond. bogging down (quite unnecessarily) your framerate. not to mention it works bad with displacement maps and sometimes malfunctions when several things are selected.

 

[Meyer]

Sometimes carving even locks up my computer because it can't seem to digest my carve order so I taught myself not to use it anymore... btw, when I just make a hole out of brushes or by clipping it turns out much nicer.

 

[Deleter]

exactly

 

[jmjneary]

carving has its uses

 

[jmjneary]

if ya wanna mrege pretty much the closest thing to that is grouping as far as i know

 

[Pesmerga]

Carving is horrid practice...theres no replacement for the human brain and how it can think about a problem and fix it effeciently. Even in a single rectangular brush, carving gives you problems with how it cuts it, which might cut it differently than the map creator wants it.

Merging? Grouping, basically, but that's purely an editor feature, it has no effect in-game.