sphere Created 20 years ago2004-01-27 00:49:26 UTC by black mesa

i looked at the tutorial on the snarkpit tutorials website about making a sphere and i couldn't align the vertices of the 12-faced cylinder i made on the grid using vm. Because when i moved one vertice, all the other edges and vertices moved also so that when i aligned one vertice onto the grid, the other vertices moved off the grid. any1 have any ideas?

use the 3d window to look at the exact vertexx u want because parralel vertexs get selected at the same time in 2d windows

You can select the individual verticies in the 3D view, but Why would you want to select individual verticies to make a shpere? The method I use has none of that tedium!

what method do u use?

lol nice

You can make a sphere by creating a tetrahedron (3 sided spike). Then make 19 copies and rotate them to all fit together in a central point. Sort of like segments of an orange but not. This will make an isosahedron (20 sided polygon) which looks kind of spherical.
Probably best to use the CTRL-M method of rotation but I don't know the angles. 72 degrees probably. And some horiz/vert flipping would speed things up.

But yeah, the messy way will work too. What Zappy said.

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I just put a load of brushes together and vertexed them! But it made the face limit go through the roof!

you got what was comming to you