Easy Vault Recipe

[Sotha]

I've been giving some advice to the new mappers recently. Here is an easy vault recipe. Enjoy!

 

1) Make the floor of the room you want to vault as a guide. Then create an end cap which takes half of the room space:

 

2) Select vertices and drag them to the side so that the end cap looks like a triangle top-down.

 

3) Clone the triangles to make a vaulted ceiling. The sharp edges meet at the center of the room:

 

4) Create a cube somewhere. Texture it with the texture you want the vault to have. Scale the texture to the scale you need. Choose the bottom face of the cube. Copy shader.

 

5) Choose the vault patches and paste the shader. You can now delete the cube.

 

6) Add some decoration. Make a cylinder and place it on one of the corners. It should be as tall as the vault height is.

 

7) Drag the cylinder vertices so that it bends along the vault and texture it as you please.

 

8) Clone the cylinder to form a full loop.

 

9) Clone the double cylinders so that every side has them

 

10) Select one of the cylinders. Rotate if 45 degrees so that the top part points toward the center of the vault.

http://i.imgur.com/0Q8GGFL.png

 

11) Drag the vertices so that the top end of the cylinder touches the center of the vault.

http://i.imgur.com/WJChtUz.png

 

12) Clone the 45 degree cylinder so that all the sides of the vault patches are covered.

http://i.imgur.com/wd7qTEN.png

 

DONE!!! Add extra details as needed. For example, note that the cylinders hover in air. You need to add some columns or other structures to complete it.

 

Also note that if you make a module out of this, you can smack premade vaults around. Also you can choose the entire patch vault with all the parts and apply a dirt decal on it in order to make a grime module for your vault module.

[Goldwell]

Thank you so much Sotha!

[someTaff]

Great! Looks like this http://m.fotki.yandex.ua/users/humus777/view/634260/

Edited June 4, 2013 by someTaff

[Obsttorte]

5) Choose the vault patches and paste the shader.

You may add that there are two different ways to paste the texture on a patch, natural and projected. Depending on the angle of the vault projected may cause negative effects, and in case of natural you can just select the whole bunch in the end and press the natural bottom in the surface inspector.

[PranQster]

Whoa! So easy. I've been loading a vault prefab, deleting the unwanted parts, re-sizing and re-texturing what I want and moving it into place. LOL doing it from scratch is faster and easier.

[Sotha]

Oh, and one more thing...

Once you are done with the vault, be sure to find tune the patches with the patch inspector. You can save some tris by reducing the patch tessellation. Use the lowest tessellation that still looks good.

[Bikerdude]

might wonna change the titlke of the thread to "how to created a vaulted ceiling"

[Sir Taffsalot]

Many thanks for this Sotha. I've been using it a lot in my current map to great effect.