Possible To Make Arrays In SFM?

[Juggernaut]

Heya, its me Juggernaut, and I just had a small question... How would I, (and if possible) makes arrays in SFM?

Thanks for your time,
Juggernaut

[raptornx01]

uh, in what way?

[Juggernaut]

Arrays with models, as in, being able to duplicate the models in a very fast way.

(Sorry if I wasnt clear enough before)

[episoder]

you gotta do it with hammer (aka set builder). compile only entities. in sfm you run/snap the shot. and animate what you wanna animate with "create animationset for existing model". :)

[Juggernaut]

Eh, thanks episoder. Unfortunately I have no experience in Hammer. :?

[The Resonte!]

Copy/Paste?

[Juggernaut]

Resonate, I could, but for what I want to do, not only do the models I want duplicated need to be exactly alligned, but they copy and paste would take way to long for the thing I wanna do.

[episoder]

well... okay. you don't wanna hammer?

you could make a temporary location where you can rotate the model you wanna duplicate. rotate it into global transform space. copy/paste it. then lock the root transform to move it into the exact same position and then move it with the global axis transform on that sorta straight line "grid style" for a row and then select the multiple models on the row and copy paste them with the same lock&transform trick. alternative is to use the transforms in the animation set editor and double click to insert exact locations.

edit: nvm... the "lock in place" thingy actually also works with the local transform. ;)

hope that helps. :)

[raptornx01]

you can use model particles to spawn thousands of copies of a model at the exact same time. (it's what I now use to make grassy fields and forests and stuff)

I dunno if you make them align though.

[Zappy]

Originally posted by raptornx01:

I dunno if you make them align though.

You don't.

Originally posted by raptornx01:

you can use model particles to spawn thousands of copies of a model at the exact same time. (it's what I now use to make grassy fields and forests and stuff)

Fact: Doing so seems to break lighting on those models past one of the last couple of updates, according to the community.

[Juggernaut]

Okay, thanks guys, I might just do what I need to do in Blender, and import it into SFM.