Hole in the wall

I may be answering my own question:

I am making a gondola for an airship - For ease of explanation - I want to build a 10 metre square cube - I want (without hollowing etc.) to put an openning in the side (a door) so activators can walk into the cube and sit on airline style seats.

I'm sure this is common place.

With regards to the openning, is it a matter of making a texture for the outside surface of one side of the cube and in this texture have an alpha channel door space? And what of the inside surfaces - will they be the same as the exterior texture.

Tarak

I doubt that an Alpha is the way to go here.
An Alpha texture will allow people to SEE through the alpha area into the inside of your cube. But to ENTER, it would need to be 'phantom'. That might be okay.

What I've usually seen are extra Prims to make sides around the door. Play around with 'hollow' for the cube. If you are careful with Begin and End Cut and with Hollow on a cube, you should be able to make what you want (a door in a wall) with one prim. Then tack the door onto the side of your gondola. No alpha required.

Also see this thread:
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Sounds like a similar topic.

Essentially...if you're trying to make a hole for a door in the side of a hollow cube (hollow is being used for the opening in the main body of the ship running front to back I'm assuming) You could attempt to use Cut to try and cutaway part of the cube and make an opening that runs horizontally. However, you won't just be able to cut a small area for a door..it's either from one side to the other or not at all.


There are tricks to make the cut be where you need it to be on a face, but I'm sure if you play with the #'s you'll see what I'm talking about.

What you would need to do then is use 2 more rectangles to fill in the holes in the sides of where you want the door to be in the cut.

Thanks people