Or make a 30-sided brush, lengthen it, and make a curved version of that?

Curved as in bent? Either go into vertex edit and bend it that way, or press B to bend it.

Is there any other way to make a cylinder?

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How do you go into vertex edit? B didn't work, said something about only allowing one patch to be selected or something.

press "v" to go to vertex edit

I can't figure out how to use vertex edit...oh well, go to this thread http://forums.massassi.net/html/Forum5/HTML/007755.html and scroll to the bottom of my post...the last screenshot has 2 poles in it, that's what I'm trying to curve...it's described more clearly in the thread.

Uses patch meshes, not brooshes.

Tip: if you need your curve patch cylinder to cast a shadow place a brush inside it and texture it with the caulk shader.

I know how to make a shadow and I don't need one.

OK I looked at your screenshots.

Select one of the poles, then click on the curve menu. Now click cylinder. simple as that.

He's not talking about making a simple cylinder!
You want to make a "stretched" very curvy wall right like in the screeny.
What you do is make your brush go into curve, more cylinders and pick very dense cylinder or dense cylinder.
Then hit V and little boxes should appear. Click and hold your mouse over a box and drag it in a direction.
THis should stretch the cylinder. You may need to experiment with the stretching but in the end you should get it.
I hope that helped and if I am talking about something completly different, you'll have to explain it better.
Hope that worked

-Tickles

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But he said he had a 20 sided brush and wanted to make it into a curve patch. That is essentially a simple cylinder. And you don't have to stretch a patch to the length you want it, just make a square brush that fits where you want the patch and make that brush a cylinder.

No, Tickles is right. I'll try to clarify more. I've made a 20-sided brush and lengthened it, so it looks like a filled cylinder. Now I want it to bend alongside the wall so it doesn't look all blocky. I'll try the vertex drag thing, though I don't get it...

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Vertexes are easy. Click and hold a blue or purple block and drag. Change view to do it in three dimensions

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Sounds like a chocolate bar.
Umm... chocolate......
And what else is nice?
Umm...... Singleplayer levels...

You'll have to turn it into a patch if you want to bend it, unless you are prepared to stack loads of angled brushes together - one for each angle of the bend.

Make your brush a curve patch cylinder, enter vertex mode and move the vertices about until you get the bent cylinder.

I still don't get it...to clarify even more, look at the rope on the railing in the last pic in this thread: http://forums.massassi.net/html/Forum5/HTML/007767.html That's what I want.