Your first staircase

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Post by Spawn » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:50 pm

A few useful tips when creating staircases

To gain full control over what you're working with, and to avoid mistakes during
building it.. I recommend that you create a empty world/prefab to build it in :)
(especially if it is a complex one with much detail or weird shapes)


The characters from nolf2 & Contract Jack can walk up a step that is
maximum 16 units high... A easy way to start is to divide the height from the
1st story floor to the 2nd story floor by 16 to get the number of steps needed..

example:

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It's a good idea to choose roomheights that will give you a whole decimal
when it is divided by 16, that makes things a lot easier :)
And I usually start from the top (2nd floor) with the steps because it makes
the copy/paste easier as well.

I'll build a simple 256 units high staircase in this demo, made of 16 steps and
128 units wide

Set the grid to 16 units and create a box that is 256x256x256 as a referance
(my box has a blue texture)
Level the marker with the top of the blue box and add another box which
will be the upper step. (I'll texture that one with a red texture)

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Now is a good time to map texture coordinates, otherwise you'll have to do it
to each of the steps later.. I'll just skip that part :)

Now place your marker leveled with the bottom corner of the step like I've done in
the next picture you'll see and copy/paste the box.

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Repeat this step until you reach the same level of height as the bottom
of the blue box.

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Now select all the stairs and unjoin them (ctrl+J)

then unselect all and hold 'ctrl' while selecting all the surfaces you need visible.
after all of the wanted surfaces is selected, press (shift+J) to join them.

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Unselect everything again and select all of it, then unselect the surfaces you joined and hit 'delete' to get rid of the rest.

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You may change the width and length as you wish when you copy/paste it into
the level as long as the height is untouched..

Voila :thumb:
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Post by SAssER » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:00 am

very nice tutorial, Spawn! I'll try that in my next map (if there will be one) :thumb:
Can you make a tutorial on "round staircases" too?
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btw. I also wondered how to make such realisitc looking ladders:


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Post by sonic goo » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:31 pm

I've got sortof that kind of thing in my Fracas at the Factory map. If you'd like the ltc file to mess around with, just let me know. :)
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Post by Legbat » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:32 pm

SAssER wrote:I also wondered how to make such realisitc looking ladders
If I'm not mistaken there is a prefab ladder in CJ that looks very much like the one in your photo.
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Post by Belladonna » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:24 am

Wow, you know what, seeing those directions I finally figured out why I can't map. (Aside from being too lazy to figure it out) It's a mental thing. It reminds me of learning algebra in 9th grade and those blasted sin, cosign and tangent, figuring slopes that I never understood, getting yelled at by my teacher and father, creating constant tension and distress. Graph lines just freak me out! Sorry Spawn, as much as I'd like to, I don't think I'll be able to make a map. :mellow:

But thanks for providing help to those that don't have a weird childhood trauma that prevents them from mapping. :D

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Post by SAssER » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:49 pm

Well Legbat.. I do not have CJ.. I only got NOLF1 and 2 ((2)) :(
And Spawn once sent me a ladder looking like this.. But I want to know, how you made them :thumb:
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Post by Spawn » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:18 pm

There's a ladder in UNDERWATERBASE-->Ladder 40x184x30 :)

well, how to make them.. ok then.. Give me a few minutes :)

Bella! I sucked at math on the school as well, that's why they invented the mobile
brain called calculator :P

Because there are many of our kind!
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Post by Legbat » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:00 pm

If I'm not mistaken, the majority of the prefabs in NOLF 2 and CJ were created with 3DSMax and imported into dEdit. Alot of those prefabs are so complex geometry-wise (e.g. curved cylinders) that they would take forever to produce or be altogether impossible to make using dEdit.
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Post by sonic goo » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:25 pm

Bella, that's not a graph, that's a staircase seen from the side! :)) :)) :))
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Post by Spawn » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:52 pm

Legbat wrote: If I'm not mistaken, the majority of the prefabs in NOLF 2 and CJ were created with 3DSMax and imported into dEdit. Alot of those prefabs are so complex geometry-wise (e.g. curved cylinders) that they would take forever to produce or be altogether impossible to make using dEdit.
Yeah, you're right Legbat..

A lot of the prefabs in dedit is made with Maya/3dsm, unless you're as crazy as
me and a few others that prefer creating them with dedit :insane: lol

Built your ladder https://www.spawnsite.net/forum/viewto ... f=10&t=389, sasser :)

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Post by SAssER » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:06 am

Thank you!! :thumb: :banana:
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