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1997 may have been filled with creativity, but it appears that the time around 2000/2001 was the silver age of quake mapping due to the high ratio of awesome maps and their volume.
run right up to present day?
ie - where it says 2006 - 2007, er, I know how Excell graphs can work, so the figure plotted for 2007, albeit right at the end of the x-axis, does that mean figures for the entire of 2007? :P I think 2008 will be promising indeed...
Since 3/4 years the number of released map didn't changed that much, so let's assume we will see the same number of release in 2008. So regarding the fact that map quality is constantly increasing, we will have very good fun time this year for sure.... errr or a t least during this end of year :P It takes me a horribly long time to do anything, but eventually it gets done.
Nice map. Now lets see you get back to METAL Is czg's curved pipes tutorial uploaded anywhere?
There's one on archive.org but it's not got any pictures unfortunately... speeds has one but can't find it.
12-sided circles,the outward and inward slopes in a 90 degree curve coming from down and going to the right are 1:0 (straight up), 1:2, 2:1, 1:0 (straight to the right). The piece interfaces have 1:4 and 1:1 slopes. If you want to do this for more complex shapes, you have to stretch them a bit wider, then shear vertically and finally horizontally (this shrinks them back). 24-sided works a bit similarly but you need a finer grid. I made templates some time ago that vis without leaks. I'll upload them some time. but I hope you get the idea.
The correction. y:x 1:0,2:1,1:2,0:1 Ie in degrees 90, 63, 27, 0 Here it is now on the Shub-Hub, in a zip! Should work fine, just extract it to a unique folder! Or a folder full of junk. Should work either way:
http://www.shub-hub.com/files/misc/Curve_tutorial_files.zip Thanks czg for a comprehensive tutorial! thanks, but I'm trying to remember the actual numbers for the pipe bending, how much to stretch and how much to shear in each direction when the starting section is a certain size... any idea?
that comes from bottom and goes to the right
stretch a section to the left, then shear it up from the left and shear it right from the top until you're at 1:2 angle. It's not a huge amount, it's pretty fast to experiment it with a 12 sided curve. Ie if you were left short, do a couple undos and stretch more this time. Oh, first clip the pipe segment so that that it's a trapezoid from the side, ie the ends have 1:4 slope. thanks, but I'm trying to remember the actual numbers for the pipe bending, how much to stretch and how much to shear in each direction when the starting section is a certain size... any idea?
(i'm going to use compass bearings to explain, it seemed the easiest way) assuming you have your initial segment (with the 1:4 edge) laid out with the angled edge facing north east (as it were) so that you want to curve up to the north & round to the east, your second segment must be vertically (or should i say longitudinally...) stretched so that the outer edge extends beyond that of the end of the first segment by twice the length of the first segment's outer edge (ie. if your first segment has an outer ledge that spans four squares, the second segment's outer edge should extend 8 squares beyond the north corner of the first edge). then you clip downwards so the inner edge ends up twice the length of the first segment's inner edge, and clip off the south-westerly corner. then for the magic skew, you take the outer ledge of your second segment & stretch it westerly by 9/8ths. so if your segment spans 8 squares horizontally (or latitudinally, heh) then you'd extend it one square to the west. then skew the north edge to the east until it fits together. then clone, rotate by 90 & flip to get the other half. i think that about covers it.. the 9/8ths is the only real key number to remember; the rest of the measurements largely depend on the size of the radius you're curving around.. it's just a case of each edge being twice as long as the initial segment (once the corner is clipped off) i just read that again and jesus christ if that wasn't the least clear explanation ever :|
these should help a bit more: http:/isoterra.co.uk/images/curves/Image1.jpg http:/isoterra.co.uk/images/curves/Image2.jpg http:/isoterra.co.uk/images/curves/Image3.jpg http:/isoterra.co.uk/images/curves/Image4.jpg http:/isoterra.co.uk/images/curves/Image5.jpg http:/isoterra.co.uk/images/curves/Image6.jpg ...curve several rows of whatever it is your trying to curve at the same time, at different radiuses! Then just keep the one you need...
Here are some prefabs I keep handy, nothing much but takes the sting out of doing it from scratch every time... http://shub-hub.com/files/misc/acurve.zip those stretch amounts. I just eyeball it and undo if I was left short and do more. But thanks rj.
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