Cardia on 3/12/2014 at 12:05
Wow! XoraK! that did the Trick, it was very helpful, alright! my spiral staircase is done, i never thought it was this easy :D
Many thanks :thumb:
R Soul on 3/12/2014 at 23:47
Here's a spiral staircase made from 3 sided cylinders, and it has been properly roombrushed:
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http://catmanofiowa.com/RSoul/spiral.zip)
On thing that helps is to make the steps overlap vertically, so each step is, say, 2 foot high but sunk 1 foot into the step below. Unfortunately I had trouble optimizing it once I added a surrounding solid pillar and an entry room.
Garrett2014 on 13/1/2015 at 23:53
Quote Posted by Xorak
When I build a spiral stair here's what I follow. It's so easy you'll wonder why you ever had any difficulty at all in doing it.
You start with a wedge, half as long as the cylinder is wide and make it sure it is centered like below. So if the column is 14 units across, each wedge will be 7 units long. The width of the step doesn't matter too much. I used a W of 4 to create a nice angle, but a 5 also works in this case. If you use a 3 there will probably be gaps between each step, which is something you might want in some cases.
Inline Image:
http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t498/cplafond/stair1_zpse7e125ad.jpgThen all you do is rotate the wedge 22.5 degrees and align it so that one end matches the end of the one in place, and the wider end goes beyond the outer wall of the cylinder. And you keep building these steps.
Inline Image:
http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t498/cplafond/stair2_zps54d6254d.jpgThe beauty of this, is that you can first place these four wedges like this, and it will eventually all align, nicely even and perfect:
Inline Image:
http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t498/cplafond/stair3_zps82e1db9c.jpgThen just continue to fill in the steps. I did the first series of steps. This should work on any size cylinder, it will only require more intermediary steps for each series.
Inline Image:
http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t498/cplafond/stair4_zpsba91aa2c.jpgAnd imperfections that exist where all the points of the wedges meet up in the middle, you can place a beam running the height of the cylinder and hide them.
This is CRYING OUT to be made into a PDF ! Ive encounters a fair few threads where the screenshots are no longer being hosted by the remote server making the text in some cases almost impossiable to decipher the true meaning. Also numerous links are outdated,down and dead. Please guys. I ask you all to start creating content in a way thats future proofed as best as possiable. What i mean is that any tutorials,textures,objects etc you create will be in a zip or pdf so they are easily distributed and hosted. Even legendary thief sites I used to use often are now down and it scares me that the time invested by so many to create all the content, tools etc might one day be all lost. I especially think that without this forum thief editing would be totally dead. My thanks to all who moderate, maintain and update this tomb of knowledge for novice and alocote dromed'ers.
Ricebug on 14/1/2015 at 13:13
I'll put it together and upload it to my site. It is a good tutorial.
Tannar on 14/1/2015 at 15:29
Let me know when you do and I'll add the link to the Tutorials thread.
Ricebug on 19/1/2015 at 21:17
I sent the thing to Xorak, who wanted to do better screenies and add more info. When he sends it back to me, I'll let everyone know.
ZylonBane on 21/1/2015 at 01:03
Quote Posted by Garrett2014
...this tomb of knowledge...
A place where knowledge goes to die?
FastGarrett on 24/11/2019 at 11:57
The tutorials are not on YouTube anymore.
I downloaded the first two videos a while ago too learn when I don't have an internet connection.
Now I'm obsessed to finish the tutorial. I really liked them but I didn't have the time to finish.
Does anyone have a copy of the videos?
Renault on 24/11/2019 at 17:06
Try messaging the author, maybe?