Creating BTS Fans

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Introduction

This page will show you how to create fans.

Warning: This page is incomplete, it's not recommended that you follow this guide yet.

Base Shape

Create a 128w*128l*128h cylinder with 24 sides with the nodraw texture.

Create a 128w*128l*128h Brush with the nodraw texture.

As painful and time consuming as it sounds, using the clipping tool to make the precise shape, don't use the carve tool.

The cylinder is used to match up the vertices so make a precise brush. Use the cylinder for your guide.

Warning:After Clipping one brush, select the only brush you need after clipping one.

Turn your shape into a func_detail and put nodraw on all of sides except for below. Just make the side brushes 128 units high.

Make the bottom parts of each brush metal/metalwall_bts_006a

Details

Create a 32w*32l*16h cylinder with 12 sides with the nodraw texture. Texture every side except for the top with citadel_metalwall074a

Create 2 4w*52l*12h cylinder with 12 sides with the nodraw texture. Texture every side except for the top with citadel_metalwall074a. Center this brush with the cylinder and then copy and paste this brush on the other side. Rotate this brush so it fits on the other sides as well.

Select all of those brushes and then make it a func_detail.

Extra Details

Create a 128w*128l*8h arch with 24 sides with nodraw.

Enter the following Properties: Wall Width: 4 Number of Sides: 24 Arc: 360

Now create the brush.

Make this a func_detail

Texture everyside except for the top part and the unseeable with citadel_metalwall074a.

The Grate

Create a 120w*120l*2h cylinder with 24 sides with the nodraw texture.

Make this brush a func_detail The texture of the bottom part of the brush should be metal/metalgrate013a2

Select the texture tool and... Set the texture scale of X and Y to 0.125 Rotate the texture by 45 degrees.