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New Foundry Tutorial: Do the Math!

kirksplatkirksplat Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited March 2014 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
Hey all. Here is a new tutorial on some math tricks that help with Foundry map making. I hope that a few of you new authors find it helpful.

Feedback from older authors would help as well. Do you use math and a calculator much?

http://starbaseugc.com/index.php/trailers/essential-viewing/primetimeugcs-foundry-essentials-with-kirkfat/
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Some of my designs have required it.

    A great example is the Alien transporter. To get things to align properly you must use math or it'll look off.
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    ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Awesome, thanks.
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    kirksplat wrote: »
    Feedback from older authors would help as well. Do you use math and a calculator much?
    Mostly only when I'm doing the writing, to keep distances and speeds consistent.
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    drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited March 2014
    I always have a calculator handy, along with scratch paper and/or the computer notepad program. Math is essential if you want things symmetrical or are doing stairs.
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    paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Trigonometry skills are also needed when trying to place objects or NPCs in orbit of planets at specific latitudes and longitudes, as I had to do in "Valley of the Shadow II" and my recent revamp of "Ghosts of War, Part V".
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    thegreendragoon1thegreendragoon1 Member Posts: 1,872 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I couldn't have built this without healthy amounts of math.
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    drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited March 2014
    I will say though that multi-select (with multi-copy/paste and multi-rotate) and snap to grid/angle have made it so I have to do less math.
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    stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I don't do math.

    I throw a bunch of objects on the map, add some numbers, crossing my fingers and hope for the best.
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