Automatic Stair Builder (Does one exist?)

SnickerPuffs

(*single chuckle*)
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After hearing about YM's Joiner, I realised a similar thing could be done with stairs. Is there a program that generates stairs?
 

tyler

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Some people started to write programs that made stairs but stopped, and there's two reasons. First, stairs are really simple to make when you get it down, no matter what kind or size you're making. Second, each staircase is fairly unique to its location, in terms of slope, size, detailing, etc., that inputting those fields just slowed you down more. Obviously you could have a simpler program, but then why bother when it takes the same amount of time to make a 128x192 staircase as it does to open the program, generate a VMF, and paste it in?
 

Pocket

Half a Lambert is better than one.
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If it had a built-in feature where it randomizes the horizontal alignments of the front textures, I'd support it just for the sheer number of mappers who never remember to do that step.
 

Idolon

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I made a program a while ago to generate stairs, though I think the thread for it got lost when Frozen accidentally the forums. I'm not going to re-release it since it was a piece of garbage and hard to get working, but I may re-write it in the future.
 

MoonFox

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personally, I feel doing stairs by hand allows for more creativity in design, and form. I made a spiral stair case using the same exact slanted brush.