End caps or patches??

(Chis) #1

I had a look at the goldrush.map and I noticed that all the arches were patches. Is it better to do it that way or are End caps just as good?

In other words I can make arches that look OK to me using the End cap feature is there some hidden advantage to using patches?

(Theisy) #2

I always used bevels to created arches and then inverted bevels to fill them in.

http://www.wolfensteinx.com/surface/tutorials/arches_bevel.html

for more info

(SCDS_reyalP) #3

End caps are patches. A capped or thickened patch is just a func_group of patches. No point in doing by hand what the tools can do for you.

(ydnar) #4

:cough:

No point in using bend/thicken/etc when proper vertex-edited simple meshes will look better. :slight_smile:

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