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Got leaks? EZ quickfix for forgotten detail
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:04 pm
by Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D
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?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:52 pm
by Jack Ruby
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
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:50 am
by Krane
File>Pointfile does not work for you?
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:21 am
by Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D
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
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:54 am
by agentmad007
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 !
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:04 am
by Random
[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
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:29 pm
by lizardkid
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.