Making
the doorway brushes
This is a update to the doorway tutorial
To make things a little more clear for
those people that are new to map making with Q3Radiant.
The doorway brush is just a caulk brush
with a doorway texture applied to the front and back of
the brush.
To make a brush with the texture common/caulk on all sides
first load the textures in the common folder then select
the texture common/caulk by left clicking on it in the
texture window.
Then in one of the 2d windows left click and drag out a
brush make it any size we will resize it later.
Now that's done hold the ctrl+shift+alt keys and
left click on the front and back faces of the brush this
will select both sides of the brush. Now go to the
gothic/doors texture folder and pick a doorway for this
tutorial I used gothic_door/xian_tourneyarch_tall2b left
click on this texture in the texture window.
Now you should have a brush that looks something like this
.

The texture doesn't fit the brush right
now does it.
Lets change that.
First select the brush left click on it in the 3d window.
In one of the 2d side views left click out side
of this brush and drag it in to the correct size.


Zoom in on the brush in your 3d window (use the arrow keys
and the D key for up and the C key for down the A and Z
keys for angle) and watch it as you resize so you will
know were to stop.
By changing the brush size with out moving the brush we
have saved a lot of texture alignment problems later on.
If you did move the brush I would delete it and start a
new one.
Now that we have the texture on a brush and it is sized to
the right size lets start cutting this brush up.
This is were you could use the clipping
tool, but I found when you are first doing doorways
the copy and paste of new brushes is easier to grasp.
To copy this brush you could hit the space bar while the
brush is selected but this will make a copy and move the
new brush so its not in the same space as the original.
To solve this problem we will select the doorway brush
(Shift left click) then hit the ctrl+C to copy
brush and ctrl+V to paste the new copy will be in
the same space as the first one.
Now move the copied brush by resizing left
click out side of this brush and drag it so it
is the size of the top of the doorway and the middle of
this brush texture is at the top middle part of the
doorway black part.


Now unselect that brush and select the first brush now
resize that one so it is just below the copied brush.

Lets keep going with this brush still selected make a copy
of the brush (ctrl+C) and paste it in (ctrl+V)
And then resize these brushes so they look like this.


Zoom in on your 3d view make the edge of these
brushes stop right before they turn black .
Now hit the esc key to unselect brushes.
Next hit the paste key crtl+V this will paste in a new
brush resize it to fill in the middle part.

Now with this middle brush still selected copy it (ctrl+C)
and paste it back in (ctrl+V)
And then resize the brushes to look like this.


Notice the top brush stops right at the top of the angle
part of the doorway trim on the texture.
No all we have left is to split these two brushes in half
and the bottom ones we have to edge edit to the correct
size.
This part is covered in the main Tutorial on doorways.
Hit the up button on your left, or this link
to go back.