Clipping

clipping makes the world go 'round...

anyway, you'll be doing the clipping in any of the 2d views; the 3d is sort of confusing, because your clipping plane (the line between the two clipping markers) is just a line floating in there, not necessarily nowhere near the brush you're about to clip.

you can clip the builder brush OR any other brush ... added or substracted - but of course, in case you clip brushes already added/sub'd from the world, you'll need to rebuild before you see changes. the split brushes button will work a bit differently, it'll do as it says - make two brushes from one, although it doesn't obviously work on the builder.

oh, and the small line in the middle of the clipping plane points at the half that will be clipped - this can be changed with the 'flip clipping normal' button.

i don't know if i'm making any sense here, so i made a small pic to clarify.

Thats cool, never relized how to use that... heh...
BTW, hey MD

-There's another button there which only splits the brush into two parts. (Not aplicable to the Builder brush)

-If you use three clipping markers then you do 3d clipping.

The clipping markers define a clipping plane. It's infinite (In UEd terms) so several selected brushes crossing the plane can be clipped with it.

Originally posted by ZodiaK
the split brushes button will work a bit differently, it'll do as it says - make two brushes from one, although it doesn't obviously work on the builder.

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/me quotes self

*cough* ChrisToth's first note

Here's a quick tutorial on 3-point clipping a did a while back:

3-Point Clip

Drak

LOL, Sorry Zodiak...I was a bit tired last night.

s'okay...wouldn't expect people to go through my rantings anyway...

Ya know, when I'm tired I just slowly scroll the page down towards the glowing bright Post Reply button. I read everything but only about 10% of the info reaches my brain.

Time for coffee...

i usually go through the forums in the morning to delay myself from starting to work...so i can go through everything REALLY CAREFULLY to waste time off the job...