More control over hollow?

It'd be great if we could strech a hollow and or move it within a primitive.

I was attempting to make a rectangle door opening in a glass store front (essentially a U shaped panel) and found it was impossible. I ended up having to use 3 pieces to get the desired effect. Now a seam is visible .

Amen amen amen amen!!!

If there was anything I would like to see more than adjustable hollows (offset from center, etc et all) it would be a better control over cuts. (ie setting distance from center for top of cut, depth in, etc..)

This would give so much more control over how primatives are manipulated. I dont know (and rather doubt) that it is possible. but *if* it is. By golly, please please please!!!

Here here! We really need to be able to make a 100% hollowed object, if only for the purpose of creating doorways. I LOATHE having to make a 3 piece wall just so I can have a doorway, when it would be so much easier to use two pieces (1 solid wall and 1 completely hollowed box for the door), not to mention it would look a lot better. I know it's possible (I've used the Thief engine before, and even that old school engine was capable of forming completely hollow primitives.

What you are asking for Requiem is far more than you think.

Currently the world uses all solid geometry modeling. More specifically its all additive. When you join two primitives they add together. What you want to do is subtract one primitive from another. That is much much harder.

If this is a first floor door, You could make the panel twice as long in the Z direction then bury half of it in the ground. Not ideal, but it would work.

That's too bad. I'd love to be able to use one primitive as a cookie cutter on another. Think of the things you could make then.

Going through an old Town Hall log I found a suggestion for this idea, and searched for it.

I think this is a good idea, would really help with building, kinda surprised it was never implemented, any idea as to why it wasn't?

I support more control over the hollow property.

i would love to see this implemented!

my best suggestion for a 1 prim door is:

create a (512px x 512px for a 10w x 10h prim) graphic with an alpha channel where the door is.. if you want a 'walk-through' door.. i.e., one that doesn't swing open.

upload the texture and apply to a prim, make the prim 'phantom'.. voila! 'dirty' door that's only 1 prim.

but yeah, i would love more flexibility when it comes to the 'hollow' properties. moveable(sp?) holes would be a HUGE improvement!!!

wow thats, um.. over a year old.

Was gonna post a suggestion around using a prim as peice to be subtracted from another vs. only being able to add prims together...

but then I saw this thread. Still wanted to voice my opinion, so... BUMP (in case anyones counting endorsements of ideas).

So? Its still perfectly relevent

More building tools and so on, always good. (If they're doable)

My favorite problem with hollows is:

make a cylinder or a cone then hollow it to the max - change the inside texture (to show this effect better) - and then change the hollow shape triangle or square. The hollow will be bigger than the object and you can stand on the 'hollow' part. It becomes a solid object again.

makes for some interesting shapes.

I'd like the hollow to be aspect-ratio unlockable, so that the hole doesn't have to have the same proportions as the object, and instead is wall-thickness locked.

This would only take a bit to describe (a checkbox) and would work like this... (top-down view)

   ________________           ________________
  |    ________    |         |  ____________  |
  |   |________|   |         | |____________| |
A |________________|       B |________________|

If you have a retangular cube like (A) that's hollow with the current system, the walls at the ends are thicker than the walls in the side. If you turn on the proposed flag, then all the walls are the same thicknes, as in (B).

Simple to use, easy to implement, and doesn't add a lot of data to the stream. (Just one bit.)

Until we can get CSG, this would be a nice, small step. We can't get CSG until we have nested links. We can't have nested links until Havok 2 is in. I'm going to have to see if I can jimmy the Timeplunge to go into the future. I want a copy of SL v6.2.