Got leaks? EZ quickfix for forgotten detail

Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D · Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:04 pm

Got leaks? Get huggies.... NOT!

This is an eazy fizx.for a leak. All you have to do is make a GIANT SOLID.cube covering your map and ,right-click,and goto select---->select touching. then, after all brushes are selected, pres ctrl+shift+d. Then make another GIANT CUBE around you map. Then click "hollow". Fix the overlap, and texture it with sky on inside and caulk on outside. Easy enough?

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:52 pm

Doesn't CRTL+SHIFT+D make your selected brushes detail ?

I am quite sure it does, if so then thats a bad move when building your map.

Try to build the skybox as tight as you can.

edit: its late I may be talking complete rubbish

Krane · Post by **Krane** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:50 am

File>Pointfile does not work for you?

Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D · Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:21 am

Well.. it would except i just wanted to let people nkow as a quick fix... unless making a hole in your skybox is a better thing for a quick compile

agentmad007 · Post by **agentmad007** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:54 am

yeah , but like that you are just preventing the leak , but what about your areaportal , if you have a leak and you dont seal it , you area wont work !

Random · Post by **Random** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:04 am

[Spec Ops] Jack Ruby wrote:Doesn't CRTL+SHIFT+D make your selected brushes detail ?

I am quite sure it does, if so then thats a bad move when building your map.

Try to build the skybox as tight as you can.

edit: its late I may be talking complete rubbish

No jack that aint rubbish lol i re read the post 3 times just to see if i had missed something in there. I agree with jack making everything in your map detail is probably a bad idea in general. For smaller more basic maps where fps isnt an issue i say go ahead but in larger areas where one wall could be the difference between 25 fps to 75 fps i think there may be another way.

Keep it up though Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D, through these methods of trial and error are how most of us learned. You understood the concepts of leaks and created a solutioin. That means the old hamster wheel is spinning and only good things can happen once that starts.

Random

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:29 pm

only fools suffer fools who have poetry in their mouths and mapping in the mind. i must be a fool.

oh man i have to stop writing before i get on here....

but Random, what if the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead?

but the skybox is a good idea for fps in smaller maps, but shouldn't be used as a cure-all for leaks.