Radiant=LOD Compile= NO LOD WTF?!

Slyk · Post by **Slyk** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:46 pm

Anybody?? In Radiant I see my LOD; was working fine for many, many test compiles and then suddenly it will NOT show up in ANY compile. I've saved it as a prefab and re-'placed' it and still no go. LOTS of hours involved in creating the LOD and, ofcourse, it matching up with the brushes work and is VERY important to my mental state-- to NOT recreate it.

Any thoughts???

tltrude · Post by **tltrude** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:41 pm

Try clicking on LOD Terrain/Color Surface Flags. If your terrain turns a pale see-through gray, the facets have been set to delete mode. To fix it, Hold shift and Ctrl and left click on a 512 x 512 section. Then hit Shift F. Uncheck the delete box and highligh every bit of your terrain before hitting done. If that was the trouble, I will be surprised because I didn't think anyone could set their entire terrain to delete without clicking on each facet one at a time!

Slyk · Post by **Slyk** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 7:25 pm

Thanks T, but it's 100% of the terrain, like 40+ blocks worth. I've used the 'delete' function on a lot of it that is under solid floors, on map edges, etc. Not at that machine until tomorrow now, but I will look at that... maybe it is possible somehow to select all of the LOD and give it the 'delete' flag.

Alcoholic · Post by **Alcoholic** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:03 am

oh YEAH!! thats right! i can delete the triangles underneath my road!!!! wohoo!

tltrude · Post by **tltrude** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:22 am

If all else fails (it could be you video settings too), try looking through your map file (mymap.map) with wordpad. The terrain brush should start off looking like this:

// brush 8
{
terrainDef
{
249 137 0
-7808.000000 -4096.000000 -154.000000
{
0 0 ( misc_outside/bermudaagegrass_1 0 0 0.00 256 1 1 0 524288 0 )
0 0 ( misc_outside/bermudaagegrass_1 0 0 0.00 256 1 1 0 524288 0 )
0 0 ( misc_outside/bermudaagegrass_1 0 0 0.00 256 1 1 0 524288 0 )
etc...

and then there will be lines like this:

790.000000 ( nodraw ) ( nodraw )
856.000000 ( maxdetail ) ( maxdetail )
870.000000 ( ) ( )
868.000000 ( ) ( )
856.000000 ( ) ( )
864.000000 ( ) ( )
864.000000 ( ) ( )
870.000000 ( ) ( )
872.000000 ( ) ( )
870.000000 ( ) ( )
864.000000 ( ) ( )
820.000000 ( ) ( )
736.000000 ( ) ( )
622.000000 ( ) ( )
512.000000 ( ) ( )
402.000000 ( ) ( )
318.000000 ( nodraw ) ( nodraw )
228.000000 ( nodraw ) ( nodraw )
146.000000 ( nodraw ) ( nodraw )
70.000000 ( invisible ) ( invisible )