What methods do you use to Build Doors?

[DrGiggles 0]

Question 1: I am just curious what types of methods the rest of the modders use when creating door openings? I know you can do Cynical Saint's method of copying the hallway twice or Mike Schell's way of using the copy method before you pick Operand B. You can also use reference and move. Which ways do you guys do it?

Question 2: If I want to build a door connecting to a hall or/ a door connecting to the outside, do I have to actually build another room to create a hallway for the door to be placed or can I just use the room's wall and have the door extrude outward?

[deleyt 0]

1: there are a lot of different ways, depending what the situation calls for but the one I use a lot is to use the Line-tool and draw a rectangle using endpoint-snap and closing the line afterwards.

Then turn it into an editable mesh, go into subobject-level Polygon, select the face and extrude it as much untill you got the right thickness.

(make sure your doorway-vertices are planar otherwise you'll get a "twisted" door.

2: you don't need to have a hallway but you do need to have a doorway for the door to fit into. If you use two rooms connecting eachother, you have the inner shell of both rooms and then a doorway-shell connecting both rooms. Your door goes inthere.

In the case you have one room and it connects to the outside, then you will need to to make a shell for the room and a shell for the outer wall (that's going to be included into the outside roomgrouping). Again, you need a doorway-shell to connect the indoorroom and the outdoor buildingshell.

Dunno if that makes any sense, but it should be pretty logical.

You also might want to use a more sensible topicname next time. "What?" as a name is not very helpfull for other people trying to find an answer to a certain topic. <admin edit - taken care of>

Edited February 11, 2004 by Rocky