Round Shapes

06-22-2007, 12:25 PM

Is there any way to make completely round shapes such as a perfect sphere?

PS: Also, what's the easiest way to make a triangle(4-faces) with a square base?

haymaker · 06-22-2007, 12:44 PM

brush-based spheres in hammer are ug-ly unless they are bigger than a useful dimension ie 128 units. much better to model them outside of hammer or look for a model aleady built by someone. though i recall seeing a basketball somewhere, you might be able to reskin that.

making a pyramid is pretty easy, if you know the clip tool.
make a cube, look at it in side view, clip off one side at the angle you want, do the other side, select it, crtl-m rotate z @90 and repeat

06-22-2007, 01:35 PM

I actually need a full circular sphere to play around with it a little bit, I'll see about that basketball.

Ah, thank you. I should have that about that.

06-22-2007, 09:06 PM

So to clarify, there's no geometric shape that can be used as a complete (non-hollow) circle / sphere?

Edit: How would you approach this? http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7099/circleyz3.jpg

06-22-2007, 09:36 PM

Here's a bsp

I've built a program that generates spheres... Still in alpha. Is this what you need?

06-23-2007, 09:10 AM

I believe that's what I need. Check the image above your post.

06-23-2007, 10:09 AM

Download prefabs here.

06-23-2007, 10:17 AM

Thank you.

06-23-2007, 10:32 AM

My pleasure. I'll hopefully release the exe that generates these soon, as soon as I implement a heightmap to sphere feature.

06-23-2007, 04:44 PM

Well zyklus, I tried both your Hi-Res and Low-Res Sphere Prefabs and here are the results:

Hi-Res: Crashed when I tried to carve with it.
Low-Res: Completely disappeared when I carved with it.

:/. Am I doing anything wrong? Or is it impossible to carve with Prefabs?

Marine · 06-23-2007, 05:51 PM

There is an easy way to create a sphere. Make a cube, select the whole cube and go into the displacements. Create and then Subdivide. Voila, perfect sphere.

Do not CARVE spheres. They crash hammer

06-23-2007, 07:05 PM

Well, bloody hell, your technique worked, but if I can't carve it I'm back to square one! lol.

Marinelo, how would you create something like This ?

I want to carve a bloody sphere! God.

witalldonebefor · 06-23-2007, 07:52 PM

Like this link2009?

http://garrysmod.org/img/dl/219_1.jpg

06-23-2007, 07:59 PM

Yes! Can that be carved?

witalldonebefor · 06-23-2007, 08:31 PM

That can actually be made with out carving. I'll tell you how to do it later.

06-22-2007, 12:25 PM	#1
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	Round Shapes Is there any way to make completely round shapes such as a perfect sphere? PS: Also, what's the easiest way to make a triangle(4-faces) with a square base?

06-22-2007, 09:06 PM	#4
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	So to clarify, there's no geometric shape that can be used as a complete (non-hollow) circle / sphere? Edit: How would you approach this? http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7099/circleyz3.jpg Last edited by link2009: 06-22-2007 at 09:09 PM.

06-23-2007, 07:05 PM	#12
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	Well, bloody hell, your technique worked, but if I can't carve it I'm back to square one! lol. Marinelo, how would you create something like This ? I want to carve a bloody sphere! God. Last edited by link2009: 06-23-2007 at 07:11 PM.

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06-22-2007, 12:44 PM	#2
haymaker Join Date: Nov 2005 Reputation: 31 Posts: 1,298	brush-based spheres in hammer are ug-ly unless they are bigger than a useful dimension ie 128 units. much better to model them outside of hammer or look for a model aleady built by someone. though i recall seeing a basketball somewhere, you might be able to reskin that. making a pyramid is pretty easy, if you know the clip tool. make a cube, look at it in side view, clip off one side at the angle you want, do the other side, select it, crtl-m rotate z @90 and repeat

06-22-2007, 01:35 PM	#3
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	I actually need a full circular sphere to play around with it a little bit, I'll see about that basketball. Ah, thank you. I should have that about that.

06-22-2007, 09:36 PM	#5
zyklus Guest Posts: n/a	Here's a bsp I've built a program that generates spheres... Still in alpha. Is this what you need?

06-23-2007, 09:10 AM	#6
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	I believe that's what I need. Check the image above your post.

06-23-2007, 10:09 AM	#7
zyklus Guest Posts: n/a	Download prefabs here.

06-23-2007, 10:17 AM	#8
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	Thank you.

06-23-2007, 10:32 AM	#9
zyklus Guest Posts: n/a	My pleasure. I'll hopefully release the exe that generates these soon, as soon as I implement a heightmap to sphere feature.

06-23-2007, 04:44 PM	#10
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	Well zyklus, I tried both your Hi-Res and Low-Res Sphere Prefabs and here are the results: Hi-Res: Crashed when I tried to carve with it. Low-Res: Completely disappeared when I carved with it. :/. Am I doing anything wrong? Or is it impossible to carve with Prefabs?

06-23-2007, 05:51 PM	#11
Marine Join Date: Sep 2006 Reputation: 9 Posts: 2,691	There is an easy way to create a sphere. Make a cube, select the whole cube and go into the displacements. Create and then Subdivide. Voila, perfect sphere. Do not CARVE spheres. They crash hammer

06-23-2007, 07:52 PM	#13
witalldonebefor Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Reputation: 0 Posts: 1,125	Like this link2009? http://garrysmod.org/img/dl/219_1.jpg

06-23-2007, 07:59 PM	#14
link2009 Guest Posts: n/a	Yes! Can that be carved?

06-23-2007, 08:31 PM	#15
witalldonebefor Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Reputation: 0 Posts: 1,125	That can actually be made with out carving. I'll tell you how to do it later.