Methods of GEomerging?

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  1. G043R

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    How do you Geo Merge?

    What methods do you do? and How do you do it?
     
  2. TheDarkKnight05

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    For a single box, I just put it down.
    Brace it with teleporters.
    Put three doors on top.
    Grab the box.
    Then quickly save and quit.

    It comes out very clean and never a failure yet.
     
  3. Waylander

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    Which ever method I believe will achieve the best results in a given situation.
    Door method works for most times Until you need a row of boxes all sunk into the ground the exact same amount. Then the old method works best.
     
  4. Bloumbas

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    Well unless I want it really far down, I usually just use the door method. But I put a bridge on top so there is less of a merge.

    For medium merges I still use the door method, but I load up with teleporters.

    And for extremely low geomerges, I just go oldschool. I place the item as high off the ground as I want the merge. Then I put another of the same item in the same spot. I load the two interlocked items up with teleporters, and just grab the bottem one. Then I just save and quit, reload, delete the item on top, and the lower one is there.

    There's a lot of differant ways to do crooked geomerges. I sometimes doo the door thing, but I know how to do it with fence walls as well.
     
  5. Linubidix

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    In most cases I use the door method, although sometimes I use my own little variantions of each techniques.
    For braces I mostly use teleporters.

    When I have it set up, I grab it, save and quit.


    Geomerging is all about bracing.
     
  6. Ja Red is Ninja

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    I agree with linu on this one... I have to say that I almost always use doors and I can get them pretty damn deep.
     
  7. G043R

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    What I'm trying to do is people talk about there methods....
     
  8. Linubidix

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    how so?
    Like what they'd do in certain situations?
     
  9. drak

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    After learning how to geomerge with fencewalls from MetallicSnake, I've been using it quite a lot....I even made a tut on how to do it...

    here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxSRVe8vnc
     
  10. G043R

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    I was just hoping we can talk and share our experience of the method...
     
  11. Matty

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    Do you mean methods as in the objects you use, or the techniques?

    Me and Ivory will be making a guide in the next few days. It should describe about 4 or 5 newish techniques.
     
  12. G043R

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    ALL of the above would be nice... just trying to get the community talking about it..BECAUSE I know almost nothing about Geomerging..and this topic is wAAAAYYYYYYYYY over due...lol
     
  13. Linubidix

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    Just out of interest G043R, have you seen any of Bl00D's recent videos?
     
  14. G043R

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    Yes ... have you Linu?
     
  15. Linubidix

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    Yeah, I've watched them. And since, I've saved and quit after each merge no matter the technique used.

    In my current map Im working on, I got a fence box into the back alley. It actually serves a purpose, don't worry. I got it exactly(I'm not lieing, exactly how I pictured) where I wanted it to go. I did this via the door method. I set up the box outside of the alley, surrounded it in teleporters and used several doors to push it. Pushing it is the easy part. I speant a long time getting in the right position. I'd set up doors and teles inside of the alley as a guid for it to straighten up. After several games and a lot of time, I got to where I wanted it to be.

    ^was that the kind of thing you wanted?
     
  16. G043R

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    Yeah ... I understand it ... I'm interested to hear some styles and things about Geomerging... ITs the new INTERLOCKING ...lets talk about how we do it guys...
     
  17. Resix

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    i geomerge with doors using the save quit method. but when i have a really difficult angled merge i use the box spawn method. also my xbox is weird so sometimes it geomerges things perfectly by itself. lol
     
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    To push things onto Foundry's (retarded) walls I use doors to push something in. In all other cases I interlock a floating object with the pushed object at the exact level I want the merge.

    To keep merges a standard height throughout the map, I set up a standard measuring method. I will stack a specific number of walls, fence walls, dumpsters, and bridges and then place my pusher object on top. Then I can replicate the exact height anywhere else on the map by having written down that specific height measurement. Most often I use a single crate or dumpster's height to make a jump-up for example.
     
  19. Phreakie

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    why dont you just check out forging 101. There really is no better method then the door save and quit.
     
  20. Resix

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    im sure he ust wanted to know how people did it and if they do it the normal ways or different ways.

    also i learned you can geomerge with window panels too.
     

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