WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

[JeanPaul]

Wait what? You never align verticies on a torus/the arches in a torus. Its just not possible

[ultradr3mer]

it would produe invalid meshes right?

so you have done it with the torus directly or with the arch and placed it one by one?

[Zeta]

smorus

[Sentura]

Wait what? You never align verticies on a torus/the arches in a torus. Its just not possible

then how do you get them to fit? what do you do if you have to let them fit?

[Zeta]

Make the struts lightly larger than you would normally so that they intercect the walls.

[Sentura]

that workaround doesn't work if you have stuff visible on both sides.

[dux]

Sentura hasn't used the torus before.

[JeanPaul]

Zete is partially right.

Its about making the torus 360 degrees at first and then taking taking the number of top view sides in the torus and dividing it into 360 so you know how many degrees to manually rotate each piece.

Example: 32 sided torus

copy an arch to top middle, then copy it to bottom middle - group then shift copy into the same place - without moving it, hit ctrl + m and rotate it 90 degrees - group all four then shift copy into the same exact place - then ctrl + m and rotate 45 degrees.

Repeat this process till you get all sides covered. (90, 45, 22.5, 11.25) and from start to finish it should take about 2 minutes tops. This makes everything inside the torus perfectly aligned with the torus even though its not on the grid anymore (and never will be, but come on, its a fucking torus)

I need to make a video tutorial

[cdxx]

that's spot on JeanPaul. I've been playing around with supports but I'm not sure I like em yet. I'll post ingame as soon as I find the find time to work on this.

here are some hammer shots.

[JeanPaul]

I am intrusive I know, but I have a hard time explaining myself in words sometimes

So what if you were to send me that torus/surrounding area and I can show you what I mean by supports?

I would totally understand if you dont want to do that

[KungFuSquirrel]

Unreal is really the best editor for building detailed curved geometry, no joke

[Sentura]

i don't care about placing stuff inside the torus, i am more wondering how you get the torus itself aligned with regular base geometry... say if you have a quarter torus quarter pipe (a torus corner 90 degree corner, if you will), and you want to align it so that you can use a cylinder as the floor, and a cylinder to make it fit with the ceiling - how would you go about that?

it's covered with a glass material and will be visible on both sides.

[KungFuSquirrel]

The torus, arch, and cylinder tools snap all verts to the 1 grid, so as long as you use the exact same radius and diameter and the same number of subdivisions, it should fit.

[Sentura]

The torus, arch, and cylinder tools snap all verts to the 1 grid, so as long as you use the exact same radius and diameter and the same number of subdivisions, it should fit.

touching a torus' vertices usually results in invalid structures...

[JeanPaul]

i don't care about placing stuff inside the torus, i am more wondering how you get the torus itself aligned with regular base geometry... say if you have a quarter torus quarter pipe (a torus corner 90 degree corner, if you will), and you want to align it so that you can use a cylinder as the floor, and a cylinder to make it fit with the ceiling - how would you go about that?

it's covered with a glass material and will be visible on both sides.

Easy, you always make everything in the game (arch, torus, cylinder) at 360 degrees otherwise you get wrongly shaped brushes (this is a general rule)

The torus, arch, and cylinder tools snap all verts to the 1 grid, so as long as you use the exact same radius and diameter and the same number of subdivisions, it should fit.

Wrong, the torus does not snap on any grid size