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FPSC Classic Models and Media / How to create cutters

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vortech
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As the title says how to create cutters. I have meshes for them but no Idea how to make them fpsc ready.


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anayar
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What are Cutters ?? Do you mean how to make a mesh cut another mesh, like CSG?

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Posted: 12th Oct 2010 19:26
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Yep.


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I would suggest taking a look at a window segment as that it pretty much all a cutter (punch) is, just without the entity part (i.e. the glass in this case).

The only bits you need to make a cutter is the punch mesh (that you have) and a nothing mesh to use as your frame (I just use a single polygon mesh scaled super small and placed at 0,0 just under the height of a segment floor.

You can also use the same as the window segment and add a filler entity to your punch like bars/repaired bricks to fill in the hole.

One tip though and many go wrong with this bit. Make sure you UV Map the punch mesh to the scale of a 100wx100h units segment wall as that UV Mapping will be used on the hole that is cut out. Also most times you will cut through 2x 5 units walls, so make the punch mesh deeper than 10 units and UV Map accordingly.

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@nbt I also wondered about cutters. That is a great description almost a tutorial. Thank You

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Your welcome little muppet dude

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Quote: "Your welcome little muppet dude"


Had a good giggle at that!

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He looks like a "Fraggle" from fraggle rock. I don't know if I spelled that right.
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could we not just load the punch like a window or something and change the way it looks move faces around etc and reload it back into fpsc?

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Quote: "could we not just load the punch like a window or something and change the way it looks move faces around etc and reload it back into fpsc?"


Sure, but you still need to make a simple mesh to replace the window frame part of the segment and remove the glass part (the entity) and then edit the punch section in the .fps so it becomes part 1 instead of part 2, along with updating the Partmax = 2 to 1 etc.

Unless that is you still want the window frame and glass to appear inside your new hole

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Where do I need frames if they are just cracks and exploded walls?
Or is that only for windows and doors.


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You need to supply at least one solid mesh to satisfy the segment rule (or whatever it is called), as the punch is not so much a mesh, but a template to cut a hole in an existing segment.

If you ever take a look at a hole punch fps (or a door window etc) you will see the difference in the Partmax and the Lastmeshmax which tells the engine that this segment only has 2 (or more) parts, but only part 0 (this is part 1 as we count from zero) is the actual segment mesh. It's just the way segments work is all.

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@ Nbt Have you thought of making a tutorial on cutters? You sure know your stuff.

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ok.


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