THE THIRD DIMENSION

3D ARCHES,HILLS AND POSTS.

If you load up the Multi-M.kit datafile (created in kit 1 but 
it will load into kit 2) you will see an example of an area 
that uses object colouring in a certain way to give cylindrical 
post effects,arches and hills.The datafile is very loosely based 
on an actual place.


Posts/Cylinders
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Creating cylindrical lamp posts,towers,vats,signs etc is easy to 
achieve.The secret lies in the colouring of the objects.The 
easist way to create a cylindrical looking lamp post is to use 
just one long vertical thin cube and to colour all the sides of 
it the same colour.This looks even more effective if you use two 
long thin pyramids placed back to back and then colour all the 
sides the same colour.If you want to create wider cylindrical 
looking objects such as gas towers,vats etc then use more pyramids
to get the rounded perimeter effect and all coloured the same.The 
easist way to create  a gas tower is to first use a large cube 
object as its main body and then to place a pyramid on each of 
its 4 sides all coloured the same on each facet and there you 
have one green gas tower. 

Hills and tapered walks
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Hills that you can walk up are easy to make.Create them by using 
pyramids placed on top of each other so that you can walk up the 
"Bounding Box" side (tapered section) of each one.

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Arches
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The Arch effect in the area is again created mostly with 
pyramids.Simply create a tunnel using two side cubes and a roof 
cube.Next add a pyramid in the corner of each inside roof section 
length and a further two thinner pyramids underneath (look at the 
example).Again the arch effect is mainly done with object
colouring.Colour all the inside sections of the tunnel the same 
dark grey colour.Colour the outside tunnel mouth faces a lighter 
colour (all the same colour).This will then give the desired 
effect.

Tony...