Northern Lights

[6thDLI-Quantum]

Really JV, how do I do that? The texture looks like the night sky [check the link at the top of this thread and see what you think], but how do I fix it through say notepad?

[jv_map]

Generally notepad is a dangerous program to use, although it can be done. I'd advise a more advanced text editor though. At least make a copy of your original map file first.

Then, search for 'sky'. You'll find a number of matches. As soon as you find a texture that differs from the others, you've located your phantom brush. Just remove the entire brush from the .map file and you should be fine.

[6thDLI-Quantum]

Any suggestions on an app to use [and why is notepad dangerous]?

Thanks for your help.

[6thDLI-Quantum]

JV YOU HAVE DONE IT

I have found the rogue brushes and there are loads of them, but I have no idea how they got there [the brush was sky/africanight].

I will delete the brushes and recompile.

You may have just saved my first map!!

[6thDLI-Quantum]

And saved it is

The brush entered my map due to the one and only prefab I have [a barrier]. The handle on this barrier had the rogue sky texture in it, and this is why I could understand where it had come from.

Many many thanks jv_map [and all the other who helped].

[ButtChew]

notepad is evil? your crazy. I have always used notepad, and it works just fine and dandy. I can see how other notepad progz could be more usefull with extra features, but notepad doesnt actually cause any problems does it?

[jv_map]

Notepad uses a poor text encoding system, placing linebreaks everywhere.

Also it tends to randomly switch on word-wrap and older versions can't:

1. Open large files.
2. Find and Replace

Even the newest versions of notepad have bugs and can't find a string of more than one word.

Crap I'd say.

[mohaa_rox]

How about Wordpad? Will that work?

[rOger]

Try EditPlus. Thats what I use, though it's not totaly free of cource. but good.