Ghost-
You can't mix texture types on a button, or any other brush for that matter - clip, * (liquid) and others are all different types. Animated textures + can be mixed on a brush with others, apart from liquid or clip.

JPL -
Nope. Originally vis was calculated seperately for each water volume to save compile time. Skip areas cannot have vis inside them since they're solid objects still and glass is just another entity, like a func_wall ie. you can delete or leave it there - it has no affect on vis at all. 

Thanks for the tip, but my real problem was the my texture was named over 3 words, when textures are supposed to be only 1 word... Took me like an hour to remember that and fix it.

Lol I have another problem. I started using txqbsp and an updated version of light and vis. However I'm having this problem: I did not set any light entities but my map is fullbright. I checked my map properties and they are ordinary as I didn't change anything. I heard I need Qrad or something. Do you know where I can get that because I searched everywhere and couldn't find it. Thanks in advance. 

No light = fullbright. If you want darkness just put a tiny light somewhere. Then the rest will be pitch black. For testing you could add a "light" key to worldspawn with a value like "150". That light is rather dull by itself though so you would need to add highlights and shadows (if you plan to keep this). It's called minlight.
http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/readmevis.txt is a great read. 

 

I don't. Actually I first wrote something really mean but then I made it "for testing" and "rather dull" instead. 

Oh ok, thanks! 

I am writing some generic monster guide/list at the moment and got stuck.
Monsters infight only other monsters right? Except for grunts, those also attack their own kind? (And of course ogre_marksman, but that is another monster).
Are there any that do not infight?

I scanned through the qc but couldn't see anything about this. Probably it is "hidden in the logic". 

Fish:can't remember seeing infights with them as underwater maps are rare.

And what about Chthon?

btw UWF has a detailed monster guide at his site:
http://underworld.planetquake.gamespy.com/quakemonsters.html 

Spirit, you're right in what you say there - no monster with the same classname infight except for grunts. The code that describes this is all hidden in combat.qc, in the t_damage function.

I'd just like to add that this block of code is a real mess to read in Quoth, not that I'm blaming anybody necros. 

it *is* ugly.

the class check should have been a full rewrite of the infighting part. also, the added coop ai stuff is in there too which makes it double ugly. 

I didn't know about UWF's list but it's interesting how similar mine turned out partly. :)

Thanks for the infos. 

hi aguiRre :)


so *apparently* i have a leak in my map. this is despite sealing it a long time ago and not making many major architectural changes since. at any rate, it compiled fine earlier this morning and i'll i've done since then is add a few bits & bobs at the opposite end of the map.

but now mr pointfile finds an area of the map i haven't touched for ages and comes up with this:

http://isoterra.co.uk/stuff/quake02.jpg

it goes straight through a completely solid brush. i can fire rockets at that point and have them explode, i can even stand below it & set sv_gravity to -100 without falling out of the level. the weirdest thing is that 'FillOutside' completed with no problems; i can noclip outside the level and see all of it. the leak warning didn't crop up in qbsp until right at the very end.

using TreeQBSP v2.04. any ideas? :|

(typical this had to happen on the deadline for the contest) 

does ogre_marksman do? 

void() monster_ogre_marksman =
{
monster_ogre ();
};


obviously something ID never got round to implementing 

rj: http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/tooltips.txt has a whole part just about leaks and eliminating them. Good luck!

megaman: It's no different from an ogre but can be used to have infighting. 

rj: Quite possibly portal(?)-related. Try changing the shape of the brush in question or delete/recreate it (so it's moved to be bottom of the .map file). Maybe running QBSP with -hull # might give a hint.

megaman: It's a regular Ogre minus the wakeup sound who can infight with monster_ogre. Isn't spawned in Quoth. 

spirit, negke, thanks

i've been reading that textfile. the '-hull 2' option didn't seem to give any extra info; the pointfile just seemed to shoot up the wall instead (which was still solid to player & rockets). i've yet to try some of the other params but the '-leak 0' caught my attention; seems too much of an easy fix to be true.. what drawbacks arise from using it? 

BspEditor 0.95b:
File #1
7000+ brushes, .map file 70535 lines long, 3.542 meg, everything visible in editor.

File #2 - next saved version of #1
Added small number of brushes, .map file 70945 lines long, 3.564 meg, only 9 bruhes visible in editor, all Groups set to visible, Map Info says 9 brushes.

Any ideas?

No big deal as it was only about one hours work but I am curious. 

I had a ton of leaks similar to the one your describing in omlabx. The ones where they pass through a solid wall.

As negke mentioned, change the brush shape a bit and see if that fixes it. It may in some cases, and sometimes it won't.

But I found out the best guaranteed method to eliminate a leak like that is to place a hollow box around the brush on the outside of the map, where the leak is. It doesn't have to be a big box either, just enough to cover the bad brush up. 

cheers. managed to pinpoint it in the end by deliberately leaking another part of the map (so as to split hull 0 up & prevent the outsides from filling) then noclipping outside; turns out i could fall through the side wall and down into the level.. so built a bunch of brushes around it in a similar fashion to your suggestion and it seemed to work :-) 

Tends to happen when the centre point of the brush (an X in worldcraft) is near the edge of the brush. Splitting it into two brushes can help when you don't want to change it's shape.

In other news I've been getting brushes that delete their own faces on compile - they generally retain a few but some go missing, just aren't drawn so the map leaks.

Seems to happen when using 45 degree angles that intersect with others, usually I have to bracket the offenders as in Orl's solution - but in a limited resources competition I don't want to have to do that if possible. 

So that's where to look. Thanks. 

I've discovered that I'm no longer able to select brushes from the 3D view in hammer 3.4, no clicks register in that window. The 2D windows work fine, except that it's a pain to pick out overlapping brushes like that.

The biggest thing I remember doing recently is installing the latest catalyst drivers (running on a mobility 9700). Is it possible that installing these could have broken hammer? Has anyone encountered a problem like this and have a fix? And why does the cart on goldrush keep flickering, the new drivers didn't fix that either... 

What sounds like a classic WC bug - go into options and turn off hardware acceleration in the 3d window options.

I'm guessing that you had it turned on before but your previous drivers didn't conflict.

Hopefully that'll sort it out. 

Can anyone explain to me why a trigger_count needs to have a brush model, when it seems to me that it could be a point entity? The QC specifies it as needing one in the QUAKED line, but the code associated with it doesn't explain why...