How do you make circular holes?

The Whole Team

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Nov 4, 2009
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The easiest way would be to make a cylinder brush and carve it, but carve is bad and the clipping tool is good.

Anybody know how to make a round hole in the ground using the clipping tool or know where there's a tutorial?
 

jpr

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Feb 1, 2009
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You could cut a rectangular hole using the clipping tool and then create an arch where the hole is. Then use the vertex tool to make it fit the hole...
like so:
holeee.png
 

Terr

Cranky Coder
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Jul 31, 2009
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Like Jonah said, take the 360-degree arch route. Just pull the outsides of it to match whatever you're placing it into.

Of course, if you want a hole that looks like a bomb fell or a natural rock tunnel (rather than like a pipe entrance) then displacements will probably give you a more natural look, which can be smoothed through careful use of the subdivide feature. See this thread for a visual example.