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Thread: Need help making a pool table
OR, put a bounty on balls!!!
Find someone that knows where to find them and tell them you want 10 balls and you'll pay 1k each or something.
Let someone else do the grunt work......
Message Edited by progman63 on 08-14-2005 11:37 PM
im curious too
I've seen everything from the simple to the absurd as far as item count, looks, and even scale.
It has to be reasonably correct size or it won't really work, but it depends on what presentation you're going for - merely functional, or very ornate. And it can look a little futuristic even though this is "a long, long time ago".
I put together a VERY low count pool table awhile ago and it was also VERY easy to put together using the original sizes and drop heights for the items.
1. A few lances for cue sticks
2. Holocrons for chalk
3. Rack on the wall using lances and sword cores for the brackets
4. The table top used only 6 of the square grey end tables
5. The bumbers and body used the orange couches (maybe a few orange chairs)
6. The pockets used 6 of the scout traps - hex top and bottem with black cylinder body
7. The balls were one of the grenades, glob I think
In the final build, I think I arranged the body of the table first using the orange couches to get the width and length I wanted.
Took a little manipulation to get the corners looking half decent due to the angle of the couch back.
Then I just filled in the table top using the grey end tables with their lip hidden inside the couch body.
Raise and float 6 of the traps onto the table and point one of their hex corners into the corners of the table.
The pockets could double as bumbers fora sort of bumber pool if you raised them up so the black sides were showing.
Put one or two chalk on the edge of the table.
I only put 4 or 5 balls on the table, still a little small for regulation pool. No 'cue' ballbut all the balls were round, the same size, and not too honkin' huge for the table which was more important to making it look believable.
Besides, who says they use cue balls out here anyway?
Then 'leaned' a cue stick against the side of the table.
Probably about 25-30 items total and looked good enough for my application.
The really nice thing was that the height of the couches and end tables looked pretty good just by dropping them so I didn't really have to work too much - just build a box and fill in the top.
I left the backs of the couches as the sides of the table but you could put a skirt all the way around it, or just accent the corners and nothing else using whatever color long tailor skirts you wanted.
Simple yet effective.
Message Edited by progman63 on 08-07-2005 02:22 AM
then use mabe a few small balls (u get them from a mission they are called award for sport activitys or somthing) get around 12 or so place em in a >then mabe some wooden staffs for the cue's 
uh .. next is hard .. il have to come back to u on that =)here is something I came up with, sort of a Hunter Themed Pool Table.
Use those red couches as the rails, in a 2 by 1 pattern 2 for length 1 for width leave gaps to place the traps as the pockets, then use green hides to create the surface of the table, and use the "Awards for Sporting Excellence" for the balls, and tailor skirts to cover the gaps in teh couches at the corners, i haven't put it together yet, but it sound good in my head.... lol