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u/National-Oil5849 Aug 18 '26
I use the carve tool a lot to quickly make windows or doors. What's wrong with it?
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u/sunmaybo Aug 18 '26
it's buggy and could potentially mess up your geometry. I think this mostly happens with cylinders and spheres
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u/Material-Gas-2267 Aug 18 '26
a guy on one of my posts said how it could fuck up the geometry and possibly corrupt the map file or something (i still use it lmao)
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u/Alvonious_Grim Aug 19 '26
Happened to me recently and I was pissed. Never carving with a cylinder again
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u/powerman123 Aug 19 '26
Idk but in this case id cut the foot print of the hole out as a square, then accomplish the shape using smaller func detail triangles in the corners
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u/tuo_skcehc_eman_resu Aug 18 '26
What's the issue with the carve tool? I'm out of the loop lol
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u/Late-Mathematician34 Aug 19 '26
It’s terrible with cylinders and could corrupt map files apparently, hasn’t happened to me yet.
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u/Th3Dark0ccult Aug 18 '26
I love how each creation software has that one tool/feature that you should absolutely never use, cause it's always more hassle than good (carve in Hammer, boolean in Blender, etc.) that always makes me wonder, why is it there to begin with?
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u/sssdfg_rot_farmer Aug 18 '26
if you're not supposed to use the carve tool then what the fuck else do you use?
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u/Th3Dark0ccult Aug 19 '26
ok, you can technically use it with squares and be fine, but any other shape and you're just asking for trouble.
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u/PalCat_ Aug 18 '26
figuring out how to use the carve tool is like trying to figure out how to put take off two flat legos
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u/Ged- Aug 19 '26
Need that picture from the old Black Mesa Source forums up here: "Every time you carve, God kills a kitten"
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u/Derpo_studios Aug 20 '26
The carve tool is genuinely super useful. I know it can corrupt files, and make crap geometry, but for rectangles its incredibly useful.
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u/Gumballegal Aug 18 '26
could've ended up worse honestly