Ultimate Scaling Tutorial (GONE WRONG)

[Nicky]

For the newest of mappers, here is a super quick tutorial for making sure your map scale is correct!

I visited the University of Maryland (edit: just remembered this was taken at UMBC, though I did visit both) the other day, and saw these stairs, and instantly thought of this:

This is now the University of Incorrect Scaling.

 

[EksCelle]

thanks, i've been doing it wrong all along! now with this completely insightful tutorial you, too, can make properly scaled stairs!

 

[Another Bad Pun]

tell that to cp_egypt

 

[sooshey]

THAT'S MY SCHOOL WTF

 

[Nicky]

THAT'S MY SCHOOL WTF

Lol, what if we just like walked past each other, and didnt even notice XD

 

[sooshey]

Lol, what is we just like walked past each other, and didnt even notice XD

It's an underscaled world out there

 

[Lain]

Can you literally not title your threads misleading things? Especially in the 'Tutorials & Resources' forum.
It's not funny, it's just dumb.

 

[Nicky]

Can you literally not title your threads misleading things? Especially in the 'Tutorials & Resources' forum.
It's not funny, it's just dumb.

Sorry bud.

 

[Nicky]

THAT'S MY SCHOOL WTF

I just remembered, this was taken at UMBC, not Maryland. I did visit both the other day though.

 

[Popo]

Is there a pillar going through the left hand staircase?

 

[Muddy]

Real talk; stairs will always be the bane of my existence. I can never get my stairs to look right.

 

[Nicky]

Is there a pillar going through the left hand staircase?

Yeah lol

 

[Nicky]

Real talk; stairs will always be the bane of my existence. I can never get my stairs to look right.

I've always done a rise/run of 8/12, and had the steps be 8 high, 12 long. They usually look good.

 

[UKCS-Alias]

tell that to cp_egypt

5000 years ago they didnt have guides like these

 

[sooshey]

I just remembered, this was taken at UMBC, not Maryland. I did visit both the other day though.

Ya, I go to UMBC, and I walk past this ridiculously impractical staircase every day. It haunts me.

 

[OctoBlitz]

Welp, where was this 6 months ago?!?

 

[The Siphon]

Welp, where was this 6 months ago?!?

Looks like they remembered to add player clip to the stairs.

 

[Illius]

So what you're saying is.... 32 unit stairs!

 

[Muddy]

Looks like they remembered to add player clip to the stairs.

I think they used tools/invisible instead

 

[Tumby]

I think they used tools/invisible instead

(It's tools/toolsinvisible) Or they used tools/toolsblockbullets or even an invisible func_brush. Or this is actually a model of a stair with the collision just being a ramp.