Has anyone tried...

[-Champloo-]

drawing your map before messing around in forge?

I'm really just curious here.

I think it would help ALOT if you drew out your map design on paper, putting a bit of time in it there, before going into forge.

I know this is how it's done when working on cars, for the most part, ie Chip Foose. It isn't easy by any means, infact, it's probably beyond the reach of 99% of the forge community. Still, I think this would be a step in the right direction, regardless of your intent with forge.

[MiNiON.]

Ive used AutoCADD (automated computer aided design and drafting) in some of my forged maps. Rather than sketching roughly what i might want, I can use this tool to create multiple layers for different levels and create exactly what i want to scale.

[UnknOWNBAMF]

yes many of the more frequent members of this forum do draw them out. you must be new. welcome

[-Champloo-]

Ive used AutoCADD (automated computer aided design and drafting) in some of my forged maps. Rather than sketching roughly what i might want, I can use this tool to create multiple layers for different levels and create exactly what i want to scale.
That's as good, if not better, than drawing it by hand I believe.

Is the program easy to use? If so, where can we find it, for free preferably?

I don't forge myself, but I think it'd be a useful tool for the rest of the forgers here.

[DarkKnigh7]

That's as good, if not better, than drawing it by hand I believe.

Is the program easy to use? If so, where can we find it, for free preferably?

I don't forge myself, but I think it'd be a useful tool for the rest of the forgers here.
I wouldn't say its the easiest program to use. I took a class back in highschool just for AutoCADD, but I don't know, we used pretty old computers, and things do change a bit. The programs are used for architects to design their layouts.

I imagine, if you haven't used it before, then it would be best to just draw everything out. Learning AutoCADD just for forge maps sounds a bit ridiculous.

[Dragod]

I was actually thinking of modeling all of the parts in AutoDesk Inventor, which is made by the same people as AutoCAD... It's not free, but it's really nice. If I could make find a way to get the exact dimensions of all of the Halo 3 Forge items, or atleast get them to scale, I could make perfect (100% perfect) representations of what I would want my map to be. I can do it... I just need those dimensions. It would be nice, but it would be so much simpler if Bungie just made things stay exactly where you put them.. None of this moving slightly if it's pushing against another object stuff... But yeah, I could do it *roughly* and get some pictures online... Though I would have to do it at school until I get a PC that can handle the beast of a program. If I could just get it at home, I could do some tests to make it all to scale and such. It would be nice though... To let everyone know your exact vision of what you want. Plus, it's easy to change in Inventor... I might pursue this idea later.

[Mavka]

That's as good, if not better, than drawing it by hand I believe.

Is the program easy to use? If so, where can we find it, for free preferably?

I don't forge myself, but I think it'd be a useful tool for the rest of the forgers here.


I actually think that it is rather simple....its kinda like when you first learn photoshop. Just get to know the basis, and i think you buy it like for a certain amount of time, i think, someone correct me if im wrong.

[DarkKnigh7]

I actually think that it is rather simple....its kinda like when you first learn photoshop. Just get to know the basis, and i think you buy it like for a certain amount of time, i think, someone correct me if im wrong.
Oh god, if its like photoshop then I would try it out. When I took a class in Highschool, which was about 10 years ago, it was extremely time consuming, and all around dumb. You had to put in exact coordinates in order for it to work correctly. I remember it took me about 2-3 hours just to do an overview of a hockey rink, which was an easy project for that class. But again, that was 10 years ago when I was about 15 years old, and the computers we used were VERY old. It could be a lot better these days.

[Dragod]

Nowadays, it's draw a line. Dimension it to the correct length. use Osnaps to make lines that touch at the endpoints/midpoint. It's very simple, especially for these purposes.... All you really need to learn is commands like offset, fillet, tangent, etc... I only took a semester of it, and I could do this in 2D AutoCAD... I'm in Intro. to Engineering and Design now, and we use Inventor, which is much simpler than autoCAD for 3D modeling.

[Cadillac]

I draw out every map I make before I begin. I think several others here have done the same thing. I believe someone even posted a picture of their sketch. It was pretty cool.

[UN5P0K3N]

AutoCAD would be an easy way to draw out your maps.. I gotta try that.. I'm taking a AutoCAD class at my High School so I may have to stray away from class work for a few and test that out..