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Building Round arenas and buildings?
« on: February 26, 2010, 12:52:34 pm »

Im currently planning do create my first arena but i find it difficult do make a round building.
I know there was a image that helped do make round buildings somewhere on this forum so if anyone can find it i will be happy.
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Re: Building Round arenas and buildings?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2010, 12:58:17 pm »

 An alternate method is to use a paint program with a circle tool. Zoom in close enough to see individual pixels with ease and turn on the grid view. Then you can use the circle tool to make a circle of whatever size you want and copy that design into whatever designs you want. Paint is good, although getting a circle perfectly around and withe the correct diameter is a little tricky. Paint.net offers some helpful information in the dimensions of circles, but I fear the algorithm is flawed. Gimp could do it, but it might be a little too complex for this task.
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Re: Building Round arenas and buildings?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 01:16:12 pm »

Im currently planning do create my first arena but i find it difficult do make a round building.
I know there was a image that helped do make round buildings somewhere on this forum so if anyone can find it i will be happy.
Here it is. I suggest you bookmark it. I know I did.
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Re: Building Round arenas and buildings?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2010, 06:10:45 pm »

Paint is good, although getting a circle perfectly around and withe the correct diameter is a little tricky.
If you hold the Shift button as you drag the circle out it will be perfectly round.
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Re: Building Round arenas and buildings?
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2010, 06:18:20 pm »

 Round yes. 35 pixels wide as opposed to 34 however is a bit trickier.
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Re: Building Round arenas and buildings?
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2010, 06:25:27 pm »

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Re: Building Round arenas and buildings?
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2010, 11:44:18 pm »

you can use the x,y co-ordinates at the bottom of the paint window to help you out there.

after a while, you've seen enough you can do your own, which is significantly faster.
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Re: Building Round arenas and buildings?
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2010, 05:17:31 am »

Well Thanks guys the colouseum on my above ground fort is being built as we speak so the admins can close this thread if they want.
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The first time you see this, copy it into your signature on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

Besides, it's somehow enjoyable to think of groundhogs stacked to the very top of a cage and flooding out to kill.