Thank You BIS for the TOOLS!

[POPKA 0]

my mistake

[binkster 0]

Extrude!! was missing in light great to have that. makes life easier

[VladAlex 0]

Could you explain what is extrude ? Could you also make a tutorial "How to make your first crate for Arma ?" Popka ?

[jerryhopper 286]

Could you explain what is extrude ? Could you also make a tutorial "How to make your first crate for Arma ?" Popka ?

wikipedia! read and learn!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrude

[Col. Faulkner 0]

wikipedia! read and learn!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrude

That is completely useless information with regard to 3D

modelling! Briefly, in this context, "extrusion" is a technique

for making a 3d solid from a 2d shape. Imagine, for example,

a 2D square face, you could make a 3D cube by extruding the

2D square face.

[Chris Young 3]

The modeling process is a bit different from the industrial one. I'll try to explain what extrude is in o2, and I'll try to add pics when I am able to.

Just imagine a planar surface (like a field) which is composed of 9 squares :

 _  _ _

|_|_|_|

|_|_|_|

|_|_|_|

If you extrude the one in the center, the 8 other will remain the same but the center one will be displaced in altitude (it will have taken altitude from the field in my example) and 4 new faces will link it to the 4 previously adjacent faces. In fact the result is that you will have something like a building in the field. Of course it also works with things more complex than a square, but that's the principle.

Hope I'm understandable, I'll try to post pics to illustrate.

[Col. Faulkner 0]

OK, Chris young and I posted simultaneously. His explanation

is better.

[rstratton 0]

this is what extrusion means in the 3d modelling world http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5594/extrudedpolygonsht1.jpg

[shinRaiden 0]

thanks ... i just got one question where is LINDA (lite) ? )

Got a Ph.D in theoretical mathematical models of botanical vegetation structures?

[Elliot Carver 0]

Cheers for teh tools BI! although for future reference release them when they are ready, not when you need to ass kiss your fan base for kicking them in the face!

[W0lle 1052]

Elliot Carver

+1 WL and 48h vacation for flaming.

The tools was released at the time the devs thought they are ready to release.

[Jblack 0]

Is there anyway u can convert OFP mods to ArmA easy now with the tools?

[dm 9]

See here

(simple answer: No)

[scars09 9]

thx BIS!!

[celunas 0]

thank you BIS

[Chris Young 3]

At the previous page there was someone asking what was extruding. After the theorical answers, I wanted to post one practical example. This is the place at the rear of my aircraft where the arresting hook is stored during the flight :

Before, it is smooth :

http://www.young.cliranet.com/cyp/images/arma/extrude1.jpg

After, there is a cavity for the hook to be stored in : (I didn't make the hook yet)

http://www.young.cliranet.com/cyp/images/arma/extrude2.jpg

All this is done just by pressing G (extrude), and deplacing the faces created. Much more practical than copying the points and making the faces by hand like before...