bbb on 25/1/2021 at 22:27

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I have never done circular staircases because I could not figure out how to room brush them. Any suggestions?

nicked on 26/1/2021 at 11:16

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Best way is - don't use a cylinder. Do spiral stairs in a rectangle. If you do that, you don't need to worry about rooms spilling out of the cylinder because it's a box. Then, make the central pillar of the staircase an air brush rather than solid, and fill it with a tall object. That way you can just use one roombrush with the centre inside that hollow space/object pillar.

If you do use a cylinder, it's possible, but a PitA.

Psych0sis on 9/2/2021 at 13:26

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Adding on to what nicked said, I've found it best to use a fill-air cube and then fill in the corners with wedges to simulate a cylinder, like so: (https://i.imgur.com/3xWJfaJ.png) (taken from Sound of a Burrick In a Room). Makes roombrushing as easy as shift-insert :thumb: as you can see: (https://i.imgur.com/0DY4Cov.png) . This also works with actually using cylinders too like I did in My Favorite Year here: (https://i.imgur.com/zQEKSNG.png) and (https://i.imgur.com/UHjwPfy.png) . Just make sure the cylinder staircase has a good amount of void around it or it will leak outside this way!

Personally, I've never had any issues just putting the roombrush down even if the center of it is inside a fill-solid brush for these staircases. I see other authors do it too, but maybe we're all spreading bad habits!