Last Revised : 7 February 2000   drakaza@planetquake.com

                                            Creating A Room
    Okay, so you've got Q3Radiant set up and you're wondering how to create
    your first room? This tutorial will help get you up on your feet.

    First change your Grid Size to 8. I'll show you why in a second.
    Now in the Top View, near the upper left of the window on one of the
    major grid intersections, hold down the left mouse button and drag
    it down and to the right to create a box:

           
                                                    Top View

    In the Front View, drag the mouse out from next to one of the sides
    (outside the brush) and resize it to fit the major grid lines. Repeat this
    for all the sides where necessary.You should have something like this:

                                           
                                                    Front View

    Now, extend all of your sides in all the Top and Front Views by 8 units
    (one grid snap) , so that the sides are off the major grid lines by one :

               
                                                        Top View

                                           
                                                  Front View

    The next thing to do is to hollow out the brush that you have made.
    Make sure the brush is selected (if not, SHIFT-click it to select) and click
    on the Hollow button :

                                     
    This transforms the brush into 6 different brushes which together make an
    enclosed space ; the room. The reason we extended the brush's sides was
    because this transformation creates the brushes 8 units (1 snap) inside the
    current brush, so the room would have actually been 8 units smaller in all
    dimensions. This saves a lot of trouble in the future.


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