Here look, a reason NOT to carve...
 

Here is a carved "pipe" vs a pipe made used the vertex thinga ma doodle. Perhaps if people see why we say no to carve they will understand...

Which do you think is better? :)

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8181/nonx9.png

Turbostickied.

thanks 011003, for doing what all of us just couldn't be fucked to do :P

I don't get it.

:rolleyes:

which one is the the carved one?

The ugly motherfucker.

Hollow pipes can be made with the arch tool. After the dialog box for final arch properties comes up, click the 'circle' button. It will duplicate the left hand picture, and avoid the performance problems that the right hand, carved object would produce.

Urgh.

I still don't advise using anything but block tool. The arc tool is all well and good, but it produces brushes with vertecies that lie off the grid, and hammer tends to have problems saving files in such situations - you'll open the file again to find it all distorted.

Clearly this is all an issue of hammer sucking mangina.