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Media => Mapping Center => Topic started by: DaylightDies on June 21, 2008, 07:32:18 pm

Title: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: DaylightDies on June 21, 2008, 07:32:18 pm

(http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/3111/shot0097xz6.jpg)
Working on a semi-outdoor map and the sides wont hide, i have the skybox right were my crosshairs are pointed. and all around me.

Should i put a shader infront of the skybox? If so which one, ive attempted using hint, mirror, and a few others to mask the map behind the wall.

Any suggestions?

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: Lava Croft on June 21, 2008, 07:45:03 pm

From what I can see in that screenshot, you should adjust your brushwork to solve that problem in an elegant manner. That is, remove excess brushwork and caulk up the rest. If I am completely wrong about what you are trying to do, please some moar info.

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: DaylightDies on June 21, 2008, 10:32:27 pm

more info:
this help at all?

red= skybox
blue =slick
Green - Needed to block view.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a134/voodoo_john/hideme.jpg)
(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7172/help2fj6.jpg)

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: Lava Croft on June 22, 2008, 05:45:23 am

I think what you are experiencing is one of the most common limitations of Quake3's shitty handling of skyboxes. Everything that is present in your current PVS will be shown through the skybox. The only thing that really helps here is to get the offending part of the map out of the current PVS. Hint brushes, redoing the layout, that sort of thing, although in your case, rebuilding looks the be only viable option.

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: DaylightDies on June 22, 2008, 06:19:05 am

yeah i thought so :/ thanks for your help !

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: doomagent13 on June 23, 2008, 03:58:01 pm

You could stretch the ground...

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: Lava Croft on June 23, 2008, 06:21:39 pm

Quote from: doomagent13 on June 23, 2008, 03:58:01 pm

You could stretch the ground...

That is a rather crude solution for a problem that really should be solved in a better way. But if he is lazy, it could work.

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: Kaleo on June 24, 2008, 08:35:36 am

If I were you, I'd put in some cliff faces (http://simonoc.com/pages/articles/rockwall1_1.htm), or even stick a building there, providing that it fits in with your map.

Title: Re: HintShader/Hideing unwanted?
Post by: DaylightDies on June 25, 2008, 07:43:11 am

oh wow ty kaleo :D i havnt had much time to work on the map, but other then Expanding the 'outside' (not stretching..), and remaking, Walls seem like the best idea yet!
Though i suppose i will need to expand anyways like i planned, but in the wrong direction (oh well! ill make it work)

Ty lava, doom, and kaleo!