Arches

Sgt.Stafford · Post by **Sgt.Stafford** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 11:20 pm

Just wondering if anyone else has a problem making arches. Whenever I try to create an arch ( Curve/Primitives/End cap ) Moh radient crashes. Can somebody help with this matter? Perhaps a different method for making arches exists? I thought I had managed to work round the problem by creating the arch before rotating it to fit but I then get problems displaying the arch correctly-the end caps are not in the right place when I compile and run.

mohaa_rox · Post by **mohaa_rox** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:38 am

May be you have LOD terrain? Try making it in another map and save it as a prefab(file-->save to prefab).

Post by **Surgeon** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 1:46 pm

Hmm I get this - I have to shape my arch and cap it before I rotate it or MoH Rad crashes....When you cap (I believe you have to select inverted end cap ) an arch it creates 2 patch meshes, which you have to make sure are selected along with the main arch when you rotate it...

Sgt.Stafford · Post by **Sgt.Stafford** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 1:49 pm

I havnt used LOD terrain so it's not that. I can make the arch as long as i don't rotate it first but then when I make it and move it into place/compile...it doesnt display it properly. The endcaps appear slightly away from the arch. What method do you use to make arches?

Sgt.Stafford · Post by **Sgt.Stafford** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 1:52 pm

Surgeon - Thats the method I am trying to use but like I said, when I compile it it doesnt display it properly. The patch meshes don't appear in the right place. i'm gonna go try it agian.........do you know of any other way to make arches?

Post by **Surgeon** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 2:05 pm

hmm try moving the patch mesh closer to the arch.....
The only other way to create an arch is with brushes

Sgt.Stafford · Post by **Sgt.Stafford** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:16 pm

Ok, I might sound like a dumb ass here but how do you make an arch with brushes?

Post by **Surgeon** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:02 pm

Thats a really basic arch but it should give you the idea (click on the image to get a bigger picture)

Sgt.Stafford · Post by **Sgt.Stafford** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 5:58 pm

Thanks.......that will suffice nicely

Ziskey · Post by **Ziskey** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:18 am

Guys:

I struggled with this for months. But I now know what causes the problem: If you create your endcap and then use Free Rotate to rotate your endcap into the right position before you create the inverted endcap for the arch, MoHRadiant will crash--every time.

To create your arch using the endcap/inverted endcap method, rotate your initial endcap using the Selection > Rotate > Rotate X (or Rotate Y or Rotate Z, depending on what you are doing) and THEN create your inverted endcap and MoHRadiant has no problems at all.

Hope this helps. Happy arch making!

Ziskey

Mainframe · Post by **Mainframe** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 2:55 pm

dont if u tried this site but he has arch vids for moh:aa radiant here