The player won't be that high up singe the waterfall is flowing down the slope. and also, do you want me to change the alpha scale or remove it? 

The boxes shown at the bottom of that fall have some weird proportions. Doesn't feel right. 

agree re transparency.
Completely disagree re looking top part being too high, re boxes being bad proportions. 

Left one is 64x64 but only 32 high. Middle is 32x64 and 32 high. Neither of those are a "standard" size. Right one is 64x64x64. The weird shape looks like is because of an abnormally high fov setting. 

I had my fov set to 100, do you want me to resize the boxes? 

Make whatever looks good to you. You don't see non-cube crates often in Quake but that doesn't make them wrong. I was just saying that the distortion was probably just a display artifact. It does look a little more skewed than I'm used to, what engine is that? 

 

looks like my map isn't working very well, I'm getting strange vis errors. you think I should start over? 

 

If you want me to keep at it, how am I supposed to fix all the vis errors? 

 

---- WVis 2.31 ( XT build 1.01 ) ----
Modified by Bengt Jardrup
Multithreading enabled by Willem
Further mods by Tuna, rebb
Detail code by Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org>

File: Bre01.bsp
LoadPortals: couldn't read Bre01.prt
No vising performed. 

Found out what was happening, but there's a bug when near the waterfall, I get this odd HOM bug. how do I fix it? 

You could always post some screenshots of the area and maybe a wireframe view of the area? 

I'm thinking about restarting my map. sorry for disappointing you guys. :(
http://i.imgur.com/6DhWfpp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xlNQjBP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1JZbjsd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dInzwny.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OYdaLCb.jpg 

You should make the map file available to one of the more experienced mappers here. I'm sure someone can tell you how to fix these problems. Maybe ask negke or necros, they are good at diagnosing technical problems. 

May I suggest to change the waterfall to something more in line with the red sky ? Bloodfall, or lavafall, with a river of hot blood/lava around the crates...

Would feel more "out of this world" ! 

Best thing to do is check to make sure vertices in the affected area are grid snapped. Make sure there are no mixed faces. Also is the map sealed off from the void? Sometimes a map which is unsealed has weird vising issues, plus be careful with brush entities as vising can sometimes occlude them in areas you definitely don't want them to be occluded from.

SW has a nice idea too, one of more experienced mappers may be able to diagnose the problem. It make be a simple case of rebuilding a few brushes in the area also. 

If anyone wants it, grab it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6adm32byjk3a1sl/bre01_old.zip 

I'll have a look too, maybe its a problem with the tools. I would also recommend compiling the map with TyrUtils and see if the problem persists. 

 

 

What texture were wads used? Some of thos I can't find. If you make the "bad" bsp available they can be extracted.

One thing I noticed that seems a little weird is that, in the rock areas around the waterfall, you have "tri-souped" using brushes with non triangular tops. Looking down from the top I would split these into two triangular brushes. 

No matter what happens, keep going. Nobody expects miracles in your first map and neither should you - this is your first test bed for ideas.