| Extruder Updated 26 Jun 2003 | Upper levels: - QuArK Information Base - 2. Map editing - 2.2. Advanced Duplicators

2.2.3. Extruder | [ Prev - Up - Next ]

The extruder has overlapping functionality with the 'Path Duplicator', but lacks some of its features, and has additional ones of its own (it's a different kind of implementation, with different potential). Some significant strengths of the extruder are: it has 2d editing facilities (either a special 2d editing window, or circumference handles in a normal view) for controlling the shape of the outline, which can be a hollow or solid (including concave) pipe, a patch tube, or pipe with an outside square and inside complex outine). it has a variety of faclities for positioning path points with respect to each other (rmb on the path points). it can automatically punch holes in things that it goes thru, both for the inner and the outer circumference. To texture, it, dissociate the images, arrange the textures on the first section, then revert it back to being a duplicator. If you want to use the extruder 2d/outline editing features in combination with the features of the path duplicator, you can put a one-segment extruder into a path-duplicator's template group, and the shape will be extruded along the path.

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