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Staying on grid... why?

by Tom Spilman · in Artist Corner · 03/24/2005 (10:29 am) · 7 replies

Ok i've heard alot of people recommend that you should always work "on grid" within mapping tools like QuArK, Hammer, CartShop, etc. Map2dif can process floating point units now, but why is it so often recommended to avoid them (via the grid)?

I'm trying to get some real reasons here so that i correctly guide people using our exporter.
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    Alan Kantz
    #1
    03/24/2005 (11:10 am)
    I assume it is because of Quark's floating point truncation.

    Torque Owner Clint S. Brewer
    #2
    03/24/2005 (12:46 pm)
    I'm no authority, but from my experience, in worldcraft as well, if you are snapping to the grid then it is much easier to line things up exactly without any small floating point errors that can lead to light leaks or portalization problem.

    I don't think it's necessarily a problem with floating point numbers but a problem with accurately lining up brushes.

    Phil Luhn
    #3
    03/25/2005 (12:51 pm)
    As Clint mentioned, I do it to avoid leaks.

    Torque 3D Owner Frogger
    #4
    03/25/2005 (1:03 pm)
    Same here...

    Torque Owner Todd D. Degani
    #5
    03/28/2005 (8:14 am)
    I don't think there is a way to NOT snap to a grid in CShop.

    Associate Tom Spilman
    Sickhead Games
    #6
    03/28/2005 (8:26 am)
    There are ways to get off grid in CartShop. Rotation in many cases puts you off grid. When you select a bunch of brushes then resize them as a group you can go off grid. There are other ways that i'm forgetting right now... but there are ways.

    Torque Owner Ed Johnson
    #7
    03/31/2005 (10:43 pm)
    In Quark I find it really hard to line up some things just right so they dont overlap. I MUST turn off the grids for brushes to not overlap, even holding down ctrl, its really funky. Maybe I need to use smaller grid units...