Call of Duty 4: Arches

By One Richard

This tutorial will show you how to create arches (The easy way).

Step 1 (Structure)

First you do is to determine the place you are going to locate the arch. In this case I will do it between these two columns.

Create a brush that will represent the total size of it.

With the brush selected, go to Patch > Primitive > End Cap, this will convert th brush in to a curved patch.

Usually it needs to be rotated and scaled to fit in its place.

When done, just go to patch > Cap.

In the small options windows that pops up just check Inverted Endcap.

The basic structure of the arch is done.

Step 2 (Texturing)

When applying textures to this arch you may notice that some of them just doesnt look correct or simply looks a bit trange.

When this happen, just select all the strange looking faces, and press ¨S¨ for the Surface Editor and click Lmap.

Also maybe you will need to select some faces individually to rotate or correct the direction of the texture.

As a final touch I added a block on top of the arch to complete the structure and now is ready to use.