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Caulk vs, Nodraw
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:32 pm
by Shuriken1
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.
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:34 pm
by Ezykeyal
A brush with caulk generates the wall but has an invisible texture.
A brush with Nodraw leaves everything out.
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:32 pm
by At0miC
I thought caulk would remove the face (caulked) of a brush in the game.
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:21 pm
by Ezykeyal
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.
blank_lightmap
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:31 am
by tltrude
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:27 am
by Shuriken1
Sorry tltrude, are you saying that common/blank_lightmap will stop the leak?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:40 pm
by Balr14
What sort of entities are leaking?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:25 pm
by Bjarne BZR
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
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:08 pm
by m4rine
the proper caulk is the 2nd one down, to make it clearer. the wrong one is first, and the rest.
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:55 am
by Shuriken1
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:15 am
by Bjarne BZR
Answering that would make up a complete tutorial. Not a bad idea actually
Anybody got a resource that explains caulks and stuff?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:52 am
by Shuriken1
That would be greatly appreciated Bjarne, let me know when its done lol
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:53 am
by Bjarne BZR
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:35 pm
by Ezykeyal
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:47 pm
by Stratocaster
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