Building Lesson 010: Brick Curves

Hello everybody! This episode will be one of our fairly shorter ones that will only cover one small skill: Curvy bricks. There are two scenarios we will use. One of which uses this chair I made as an example.

As you can see, there is a curvy part on the corner of the metal supporting piece. This is done by unions. These pictures will show you what to do to make this curve part. I will also explain. First you take a cylinder. The cylinder should be 4 times the size of the square area you have to cover. What I mean is that if the space (like in this example) is 0.2 by 0.2 by 0.2 then the cylinder must be 0.8 by 0.8 by 0.8. Use a cylinder mesh, one of the sides doesn’t HAVE to be 0.8, but other two must so it is bigger. This is so the cylinder lines up with the brick on both sides

duplicate the cylinder and take out mesh to make it a square. Make another square and then negate the lower cylinder and the two squares and lay them over the cylinder like this:

Now you have your curve part. Congratulations. Now we will learn how to make a curvy cube (we will just work on one side for the sake of time). take your cube, make it the size you want. Then put in another brick with a cylinder mesh. Make the cylinder mesh like so (length of the brick):

Duplicate the brick and make it line up with the cylinder so there isn't a drop-off of any kind

Now take a brick, make it a special mesh and change the mesh type to sphere. We want to use a sphere mesh instead of shape because the sphere brick shape can only go down to 1 by 1 by 1 stud. Similar to with the cylinder and brick, make the sphere line up like this:

Using a variety of rotations and duplicating we can make this fill the whole block.

And there you have it, the cylinder trick to making curvy bricks. Thanks for learning!

-Domswolf