New to Forging: Please answer some of my questions?

1. Can you both merge AND interlock one object? Yes, just merge and then interlock, or vice versa.
2. What is the point of merging? To lower boxes into the ground or walls to prevent grenades from falling between cracks and because it looks nicer. Major gameplay uses.
3. Can you interlock an object with an already interlocked object? Yes
4. If you select, end forge session, does your map save? No, you have to save before hand. Watch our for the Round limit of 32 also, so save frequently.
5. How do you create 'towers', or circular stacks of boxes? ery carefully. Get a guide box/wall and slowly stack boxes, and then repeat with another. It takes alot of times though and its not perfectly round.
6. Can/how do you interlock stacked items? Make the stacked items not spawn at start, move whatever you want to be interlocked where they were, wait till the stuff spawns.
7. How do you post maps on this site? Go to Bungie.net, look in your fileshare for the map you would like. CLick the name and when the page loads take the URL (ie. www.forgehub.com) and put it between these tags: [noparse][/noparse]

 

Yes, you do. Basically you make one box, set it to not spawn, and put another there with a slight turn in it (like 5 degrees) and then you wait till everything spawns and just repeat.

It takes alof of items though.

 

Well bluejay covered all questions. But for question number seven on how to post, this is a friendly reminder to read posting rules. Make sure you embed a picture, describe your map and link to your maps specific download file not your over all fileshare.

You may also want to check out the forging 101 thread as well they cover many of your questions in depth and more. Plus they have helpful instructional videos.

 

To elaborate on #2, geo-merging can be used to make interesting shapes especially on Foundry. An example of this would be a box lowered to a 1/4 the height of a normal box. This kind of irrelevant with all of the objects on Sandbox, but I thought I'd point it out.

 

That reminds me a good use of geomerging is to slightly lower tubes in sandbox to remove the need to place in tube ramps to get in smoothly. It can also be used to sink open boxes in other maps so players dont go over little bumps when walking through them all the time. This one is relevent on both sandbox and foundry since it saves cash/object count and makes for smoother gameplay.

 

Well first, interlocking and geo-merging can only be used on immovable objects such as boxes or walls. There are ways to use these techniques on movable objects i.e. crates, barriers, pallets, etc., but it is complicated and do no work well. Knowing this, only interlockable and mergeable objects on pre-dlc maps are weapon holders and teleporters.

 

8. How do you make a map symmetrical, angles and everything? It can be difficult, but with Foundry you have a somewhat grid on the ground for that, and with Sandbox you physically have a grid to work with. Then once you have that going just make sure everything is lined upby looking at it from every angle just to be safe.

 

8. you should use guides or count object lengths to ensure like angles on sandbox you can just use the grid however. Also if you have to be exact on foundry place a bomb plant point dead center and look at the meters away from it. This is usualy not necissary however.

EDIT: Ya as said above you can use the square like grid on the foundry floor. It ain't glowin but it's there.

9. Yes. The distance your object will geonerge will, if done properly, go as far through the map as the same distance as the objects you fused into it to geomerge. The object will push through the map unill the objects you put partialy inside it are totaly out. Say you interlocked a double box into a large box in order to geomerge if you interlock the double box a meter into the top, when you grab the large box it will sink a meter.

 

Ah I see. Well doors are a bit different since they sort of phase through objects and in a way interlock when the start mooving. Anyways if you want a less steep merge try stacking a few bridges on top of the object you wish to interlock then place the doors on top. This way they don't stick into the object as far so when you geomerge it, it will sink less. If you want it further down simply put the doors back on top and do it again .

 

Main yes skybubble no. Since there is no outside of the map the objects just fall to main. As for door substitutes I'm afraid not you'll have to interlock lock them. However in orbitol I think you could use the doors there like the ones in foundry as far as sandbox goes sorry nothing like a door.

 

Trial and error yes. Interlocking in the air I'm assuming you mean interlocking an object into a wall or something when the objects not on the ground. If that's what you mean I usualy just save and quit to place all the beavers down and set to not place at start then use save quit to get the piece I want to merge into the map. It's one more step over the way you said but it allows you to try again with very little effort since you don't need to redrag your object in place.