Is it impossible to flip a piece off a 45 rotation?

AssaultCommand · Feb 14, 2013

PA1NTS said: ↑

Okay, no one has suggested this method yet: First grab a 2x2 ramp steep, place it sideways. This will make your 45 degree angle. Now grab that 5x1 and place it vertically on a 90 degree angle. Place it near the 2x2 steep you have. Your basically going to be using the ramps angle to push your piece up against it. This will ensure you have that perfect 45 degree angle. So, make the 5x1 have fixed properties so that it doesn't phase through the ramp. Now start turning that 5x1 until it's almost at a 45 with the ramp. When it's almost there, stop using coordinates to turn it. Now grab the 5x1 and push it up against the sideways ramp. Since its fixed, the 5x1 should be at an exact 45 degree angle that you couldn't achieve by just rotating it. You might want to align it against two ramps, so that when you push the 5x1 against it, it doesn't mess up the other axis. Hope you're getting what I'm throwing out there, and I hope it solves the problem.
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I sort of suggested it in the first reply :/

AssaultCommand said: ↑

It's a bug that's been around since Reach. You can grab an incline 1 by 1 or 2 by 2 and try and align the wall's angle manually with it to sort of get around it.
It think it's stupid 343i didn't do anything about this, but it might be because they never needed it and therefore never noticed.
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Nutduster said: ↑

This fella back in 2010 (!) came up with a math-based way to do odd rotations using an Excel spreadsheet. Unfortunately it appears the link to his spreadsheet is dead now. I used it once before with very good results. But practically speaking, it's often quicker to either use a rotated incline piece to get the angle you need, or freehand it. I've noticed that it's easy to rotate a piece along the horizontal axis without affecting its vertical angle at all; so what I sometimes do is rotate it to the angle I want vertically, then turn rotation snap off and freehand rotate it horizontally to the angle it needs to be. If you place a flat block at a 45 degree angle first, you can use it for comparison to visually gauge when the object you're rotating is exactly at 45 also.
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Does anyone still have the spreadsheet lying around?

Is it impossible to flip a piece off a 45 rotation?

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