Land Saving Pillars

[matty420]

Here are some five, and ten high of our land saving pillars. When building high lvl maps they save large amounts of land, and are very sturdy.



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[D-Dyzzle]

good ideas. im too much of a perfectionist to do that though

curse myself

:blowup:

[CornPuff]

I like the vines. Take some pics of them in a map! I'd like to see them in action.

[jcb231]

I'd bet those could be useful as hidden support structures for large mountains. You could do the whole outside in tiles, but then use some of these to support the inside, allowing yourself the luxury of a huge mountain with far less tiles than if you made it solid.

[HokshilaTo]

I like them, what are they made out of?

[geddy lifeson]

Very interesting but more info would be appreciated. What are they made of, you make them, buy them...etc

[srmalloy]

Very interesting but more info would be appreciated. What are they made of, you make them, buy them...etc
All of which would be good to have for those of us interested in making our own; I haven't been able to find hexagonal wooden rod stock, or hexagonal plastic tube stock, in that size, on the Net. I wonder, though, if it would be cost effective to have a company do a run of hexagonal plastic tube extrusion -- looks as if 1.5" face-to-face diameter is about right to fit just inside an upper tile -- cut to lengths that would make 5- and 10-height posts. There would be a setup cost, then a per-length charge, so a large run would be cheaper overall... Hmm.

[minotaur35]

they are made of wood then flecked with texture paint. I ripped the wood from 2x4 and cut to length. We will be building a map today as soon as matty420 wakes his drunk-ass up. will post pics of pillars on our new table.

[K/H_Addict]

how much time did it take to do a single set of 1 5 high and 1 10 high? is it worth the time consumed?

[minotaur35]

well worth it, it gives us something to do on sat before game time. once the table saw is set its easy going. painting is the most time consuming part. now with our new table we will need pillars and more pillars.

[jdtenor]

great pillar, can't wait for building instructions

[HokshilaTo]

I wonder how they would look painted blue and use for a waterfall.

[srmalloy]

they are made of wood then flecked with texture paint. I ripped the wood from 2x4 and cut to length. We will be building a map today as soon as matty420 wakes his drunk-ass up. will post pics of pillars on our new table.
With a table saw, that would be quick and simple; unfortunatey that's not a piece of hardware I have. If producing the raw pillars is easy enough, you might think about selling unfinished wood pillars; from the thread, it seems as if there would be a fair amount of interest in them.

[matty420]

you might think about selling unfinished wood pillars; from the thread, it seems as if there would be a fair amount of interest in them.



we are thinking about putting a set up on Ebay, and custom painting them to whatever color people want.



Right at this moment our first waterfall is drying.

[HokshilaTo]

Very cool, can't wait to see it...

[geddy lifeson]

Instructions??? My table saw is waitin to do some work!

[reapersaurus]

Where is that thread from HQ that showed the hexagonal metal trophy-columns that performed this similar function?

As for this effort, I think the 5-high may not be worth the time effort and expense involved - I'd just want to use normal plastic hexes (cheaper and easier).
The 10-high, or a potential 15-high, seems to be a better substitute for standard HS hexes.

[matty420]

I'd just want to use normal plastic hexes (cheaper and easier).




I find single stack of land to be very unstable once you begin making multi level maps....these pillars are amazingly sturdy. Five high are nice since most characters can make it up this height easly. But ten, and fifteen are very nice for super high maps.

[jdtenor]

HokshilaTo wrote
I wonder how they would look painted blue and use for a waterfall.

That would be sweet! :ponder:

[Runehardt]

I find single stack of land to be very unstable once you begin making multi level maps....these pillars are amazingly sturdy. Five high are nice since most characters can make it up this height easly. But ten, and fifteen are very nice for super high maps.

You should try to mark the height on them somehow. Maybe make them look like castle stone with with grout marks to show how many levels they are.

I can picture a huge underground lair or cavern. You could use laser pens and those extendable grabber things to move them around and battle under there without knocking over the whole thing

they look cool - good job!

[matty420]

You should try to mark the height on them somehow. Maybe make them look like castle stone with with grout marks to show how many levels they are.



They are five, ten, and fifteen tiles tall...which makes it fairly easy to count the height levels. As far as the colors of them we are expermenting with all different kinds of paint...during our game yesterday we painted one blue for a waterfall.