Staircases

[bambini]

I'm looking to create an L-shaped staircase in a mansion that leads upstairs and eventually on to a third floor as well (essentially the staircases would point east, turning to the south, and then a new staircase woudl start on that landing pointing west, turning north. Making the stairs is relatively easy, but does anyone know how I could create ornate handrail?

[Renzatic]

Depends on how ornate you want to go. If you want to do everything inside of Dark Radiant, cylindrical patches for your bannisters and a vertex edited brush or two for your handrails would be a good way to go.

[bambini]

Depends on how ornate you want to go. If you want to do everything inside of Dark Radiant, cylindrical patches for your bannisters and a vertex edited brush or two for your handrails would be a good way to go.

 

I was hoping to keep everything in DR as I'm hopeless with Blender and if I try to learn that too I'll end up overloading myself. Good idea with the banisters and handrails. I'm struggling more with the newel posts, but maybe I need to scale back my plans. I could probably do just fine with a rectangular pillar with some sort of model on top.

 

Incidentally, is there an easy way to retexture existing models? I wondered if I could retexture an urn/vase model into wood to pop it on top of the post. Don't know how it would look, but it's an option

[Baddcog]

Pretty easy to make a fairly detailed post with patches.

 

Bascially what you want to do is stack several patch cylinders on top of each other.

 

You can make a patch with several vertical sections, hit V to vert edit them, drag the verts in or out to make dents or bulges. One patch will render smooth (wavy shapes). If you want sharp creases you stack patches.

[bambini]

Sounds reasonable. I'm not well practised in patches, but it will give me a god chance to play around