Carving... Created 20 years ago2004-07-21 14:14:42 UTC by PBJaxson

Fogive me if this is a very nubish comment but k...well i've heard how carving and hollowing is bad and all and i understand why, but isn't it alright if like its square...someone plz help, because im confused...when i go to make a hole in a wall for a door do i ...carve? ..delete the wall and make lots of brushes...? ..well..i just need to know to properly use the carve tool..T.T

well, sometimes it causes a leak, you better vm your walls after you have carved them, so it is easier to make it brush by brush then carving.

thanx i think i get it now..

You don't say....

Hollowing isnt very helpful to me because it does it in a way that all the brushes 'interlock' if you will and it takes longer to fix it than to make everything individually.

The most common cause of errors and increased r_speeds in new mappers' maps is bad carving. ie, they had snap to grid off/at 1, accidentaly had their carve brush stuck a few units into the ground, and it will carve a little one unit indentation, which is unnecessary, looks bad, and gives 5 more faces to render, and this happening multiple times in a map can cause lag.

It may seem very time consuming now to make each thing individually, but it will save time in the long run.