3d Letters?

[Lux]

What is the best way to make the curves required for letters in gtkradiant? I know I could make a texture with the letters on it but I would really prefer them to be 3d. Making letters like E or A is easy enough because I can do it with rectangular brushes, but what about the curves in letters like C or R? What is the best way to do this?

Thanks.

[Plague Bringer]

Patch meshes. I'm sure you can figure it out. It's a drop down list on the top toolbar.

[Zero Ame]

i wouldnt suggest doing patch meshes as they make ur vis compile skyrocket, just do some 3 point clipping on a brush...

[Winnie the Pooh]

FYI Patch meshes aren't structural. Vis ignores them. Even so, clipping is the way to go.

[Plague Bringer]

Personally, I would want my letters to have curves, so I'd use either patch meshes or models.

[Zero Ame]

FYI they arn't details either and they ARE compiled by the vis.

[UniqPhoeniX]

They are not compiled by VIS. http://tremmapping.pbwiki.com/Starting+Tremulous+Mapping#Patches

Also remember that patches are not structural. If a patch separates an entity from the void you will get a leak. In this case you might want to patch the hole behind the patch with a caulk wall.

[CATAHA]

You still can make 'curved' surfaces using brushes. A lot of small pieces.

[Ingar]

No need for 3-point clipping nor patches

Note: it's possible to optimize it slightly

[Winnie the Pooh]

Or just drag the vertexes.

[Evoc]

What's the point of 3 point clipping?

[Ingar]

Or just drag the vertexes.

Indeed, I only needed to cut a few brushes, copied the rest and edited the vertices where necessary.

What's the point of 3 point clipping?

Some weird cuts can not be done in the X-, Y- or Z-plane. In these cases
you need to be able to specify the three points of your cutting plane.

You can use it to chop off the "nose" from a cube.

[Zero Ame]

also its alot faster then just dragging vertexes around

They are not compiled by VIS. http://tremmapping.pbwiki.com/Starting+Tremulous+Mapping#Patches

Also remember that patches are not structural. If a patch separates an entity from the void you will get a leak. In this case you might want to patch the hole behind the patch with a caulk wall.

They are still compiled by VIS, I've been mapping for years I know what I'm talking about just because they arnt structural doesnt mean a thing.

[Ingar]

Patches are ignored during visibility calculations, the prtview plugin is the easiest way to verify that.

[Evoc]

What is the .prt file that is sometimes formed when the map is compiled? And also, what is the .srf file that is sometimes formed as well?

[UniqPhoeniX]

.prt contains info about how portals were created during compile, Plugins menu -> prtview -> Load .prt file (while .map is open).

[Lux]

I've played with clipping and meshes and meshes seem like way to much work for the result. I have gotten succesful results just with clipping. Thanks for the help.