Caulk vs, Nodraw

Shuriken1 · Post by **Shuriken1** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:32 pm

Hi, I'm sure this has already been covered but I couldn't find it.

I've got entities leaking through caulk and I wondered if nodraw will imitate caulk in that the face is not drawn but stop the leak. Is that possible?

Thanks.

Ezykeyal · Post by **Ezykeyal** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:34 pm

A brush with caulk generates the wall but has an invisible texture.
A brush with Nodraw leaves everything out.

At0miC · Post by **At0miC** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:32 pm

I thought caulk would remove the face (caulked) of a brush in the game.

Ezykeyal · Post by **Ezykeyal** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:21 pm

No that is what nodraw does, hence the name...no draw.

Try it out, make a wall with caulk and no draw and feel the magic of the invisible wall.

tltrude · Post by **tltrude** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:31 am

There is a texture called "common/blank_lightmap" that looks just like caulk in the editor. But, it does not work like caulk. If you have that texture in your map, replace it with "common/caulk" texture.

Shuriken1 · Post by **Shuriken1** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:27 am

Sorry tltrude, are you saying that common/blank_lightmap will stop the leak?

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:40 pm

What sort of entities are leaking?

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:25 pm

Shuriken1 wrote:Sorry tltrude, are you saying that common/blank_lightmap will stop the leak?

No, they look the same. He is saying you may have used common/blank_lightmap by accident instead of common/caulk

m4rine · Post by **m4rine** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:08 pm

the proper caulk is the 2nd one down, to make it clearer. the wrong one is first, and the rest.

Shuriken1 · Post by **Shuriken1** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:55 am

I'm positive it is caulk but I'll check anyway. Although, that brings me onto another question, what is the difference between all of the caulks?

Balr14: the leaking entities are mg42 bipods i believe.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:15 am

Answering that would make up a complete tutorial. Not a bad idea actually

Anybody got a resource that explains caulks and stuff?

Shuriken1 · Post by **Shuriken1** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:52 am

That would be greatly appreciated Bjarne, let me know when its done lol

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:53 am

Here is a small start I made: http://dynamic6.gamespy.com/%7Erjukanpr ... page=Caulk

Anyone is very welcome to share the work of adding more clips / caulks.

Ezykeyal · Post by **Ezykeyal** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:35 pm

Ezykeyal wrote:A brush with caulk generates the wall but has an invisible texture.
A brush with Nodraw leaves everything out.

So when you use caulk it does calculate with VIS, with No Draw it does not.

Stratocaster · Post by **Stratocaster** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:47 pm

Ezykeyal wrote:No that is what nodraw does, hence the name...no draw.
Try it out, make a wall with caulk and no draw and feel the magic of the invisible wall.

Well my friend I tell you both ones will make invisible wall!! I used to agree with you until I got told about the common/blank_lightmap texture.
I was using that one by mistake instead of caulk!
If you still see your surfaces textured with caulk in your game, you have to replace the texture. You will see compile time will decrease, also. It happened to me 2 days ago