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Polygonal rooms

2001-05-09, 9:38 AM #1

Dragon

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So I'm being a little stupid and I know I've done this before, but what's the best way to create a five sided room (ie a pentagon) with equal sides etc.?

2001-05-09, 12:02 PM #2

Jedi Legend

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create a square, that should be about the size of the room u want, than cleave it

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2001-05-09, 12:50 PM #3

MikeC

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Have you tried the Perfect Polygons tutorial?

You'll have to do some math to make it a perfect pentagon.

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2001-05-09, 2:44 PM #4

Sylvicolus

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Check out the tutorial as MikeC said. For a pentagon the inside angle of the sector would be 360 divided by 5 = 72 degrees. Then as the tutorial says you copy this sector four times and merge the five sectors together.

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2001-05-09, 3:12 PM #5

moneyobie

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You could always "cheat" by using the plugin Freesector. However I highly advise against it until you have a foundation with creating perfect polygons first. As with everyone else, I suggest you check out the same Perfect Polygon tutorial.

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