The Many Uses of Pathing

Basicly, share what you do with pathing to perfect your terrain.

I usually use barrel pathing on floors or the like to keep them straight, always nice to keep the overlappage out.

Another technique I use sometimes is, when building walls, to use a dummy wall with pathing. We'll say I'm using low alls that I want to stack up, so I making the normal one with whatever pathing you want. Once it's all placed, remove the pathing from that doodad, and make a copy of the original one, with pathing. You can now continue to effortlessly stack up your walls, making a new doodad and un-pathing the old one.
The only problem you might encounter here is that they will overlap as you place them and raise them up (Ctrl + PageUp for the newbies), but this can be solved by tapping the numpad a few times in one direction, then move them back in the opposite direction when your done.

Now, some people may argue that pathing isn't a good thing, but in most cases I prefer to use pathing, bcause it gives some good accurate placement. Anywhoo, share your secrets of pathing now. We're listening.

You do the barrel thing too? Wow thats freaky.

back in the day what i did was make everything with no pathing. then you just click a bunch of times in the same spot to stack a bunch of whatever doodad (say barrels) on top of each other. then you select em all and move the whole bunch where you want. then shift+click the stack once to remove one doodad then move all the rest again and shift click again. then use pathing blockers.

I use beams method.

The one thing I don't like about that is you spend ages trying to get the wall to line up properly or not overlap (at least I do), so I find pathing a lot easier to work with.

Well, perhaps it takes a bit longer, but you can at least place them everywhere you like!

I prefer to create a custom pathing map to suit my needs. Since it is actually a TGA of size at the most 16x16, the filesize is negligible; you can have loads and they won't make a blind bit o' difference.

Gameplay-wise, custom, pathing is very useful yes, I've never really consideed any uses for it in terrain though...

I've used a 512x512 pathing map before. ^_^

Think I only ever made 1 custom map - for the gaiascape bridge.