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- Grid Rotation: The Cylinder
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II


This is a simple tutorial that illustrates creating a perfect polygon cylinder using the grid rotation function in JED.

Start with the default box.

You should be looking at this:

Rotate the grid 30 degrees counter-clockwise:
(SHIFT+PAGEUP three (3) times)

Straighten the grid to view by using the follow menu command:


Cleave off the indicated corners and delete them:


Rotate the grid another 30 degrees counter-clockwise:
(SHIFT+PAGEUP three (3) times)


Straighten the grid to view:


Cleave off and delete the indicated corners again:


Switch to the default JED top view:
(SHIFT+1)


Now you have your perfect polygon cylinder made by grid rotation and you are ready to move on to the next grid rotation tutorial.