Hollowing Brushes Created 20 years ago2004-06-11 00:55:16 UTC by esmajor

I've made sort of a structure with 5 brushes... I'd like to hollow the whole thing out, but it's asking to make EACH BRUSH a hollowed room... and grouping them together, it won;t hollow at all. Is there a remedy for this? :

Yeah don't hollow. Make them as seperate brushes, or if you really have to, hollow each one and then group them back together.

Sound.

I don;t consider it lazy when you build a bunch of brushes and want the whole thing to be a hollowed room.......

Maybe not lazyness, but not that smart either. Working with individual brushes costs a bit more time at first but it makes your levels much more manageable later on. I'd say, get yourself a habit of not hollowing but making the desired thing out of individual brushes. I nearly never hollow anymore. It's fast, yes, but doesn't give me the flexibility I need.

As for your grouped brushes, the hollow tool isn't that smart. It can only hollow each brush on itself, not the group as a whole. It's a quite limited tool...

^^^^ true ^^^^
If you hollow and carve then you will never be able to have any control
over your brushwork

gasps CARVE????? shudders

Well, I admit I carve to place SIMPLE doorways... it seems easy, and as long as you don;t have a 5 sided hole being carved, it's okay I suppose.

Personally I just think getting a habit of using individual brushes will pay off at the long end. But that's just me...

yeah hollowing mucks things up terribly and creates more faces always use seperate brushes. Also NEVER i mean never hollow a cylinder.
Dan
"Do or do not there is no try"

*Agrees with Captain P