How to create doughnut style flooring?

orfeboy · May 2018

Hi guys,

Again I have a question. I have attached a perspective map I am working on at the moment. This is based on an old black and white map depicting a tower. I will attach that picture below as well. If you look at the tower toward the top (of the original black and white picture) you will see a floor that has a doughnut style floor where the main supporting column passes through. I do not know if it is possible to create this with CC3+. Maybe someone can tell me how to do it if it is possible?

orfeboy · May 2018

Here is the original picture that shows the floor I am looking to create. It is toward the top where the bell used to hang before it came crashing down through the floors below.

This requires a flooring that circulates the outer floor but leaves a large hole in the center for the bell mechanism to be worked by pulling ropes. All I am looking to do is create a 3D circular flooring that is a doughnut.

I don't know if I am explaining myself properly. I hope you can understand what I am getting at.

Shessar · May 2018

Use the Color Key effect on the floor sheet. This will essentially make a hole in the floor polygon

orfeboy · May 2018

But how do I make the hole?

Shessar · May 2018

Do you mean how to draw the pink ellipse that is used as the color key?

Set your sheet and layer to floor
Set your color to #6
Right click the circle drawing button (on the right side of your screen). Select the ellipse tool.
Draw the desired shape of the hole onto your floor
Add the Color Key effect to the floor sheet

The color key effect makes a hole anywhere you draw a shape with color #6 (or what ever color you set on the effect setting)

orfeboy · May 2018

No.

Still can't seem to make it work. I have created the ellipse but it is just a thin line on the floor. It has not cut away anything in the floor.

Shessar · May 2018

Sorry, I forgot to say, make sure your fill style is set to solid, not hollow, and that your line width is still at 0.

orfeboy · May 2018

OK... Progress. I have a big black elipse in the floor. I cannot see the background sheet behind it.

???

Shessar · May 2018

The glow effects on the floor sheet are causing this. Turn them off (by unchecking one or both) or adjust them as seems best to you.

orfeboy · May 2018

Excellent!

Where do you learn all this stuff? :)

So, is that transparent now?

If this were a roof/upper floor of a building would you see what you had put on the floor below?

Shessar · May 2018

Yes. See the chapel I did using this technique.

orfeboy · May 2018

Where is that?

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How to create doughnut style flooring?

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