Hint Brush?

[OneEyedTrouserSnake]

Is there one that can be used in game and doesn't turn into that wacky gray texture with white squares?

Thx!

*edit: maybe what I mean is how can I compile the .map file without the wacky etc., etc.?

[Vector_Matt]

That "wacky texture" means the engine can't find the propper shader/texture for those faces.

[OneEyedTrouserSnake]

That's funny, b/c it can find all the hint brushes in all the other official trem maps.  I'm thinking that that isn't what the problem is, but then again, thinking isn't my strong point. : )

[Vector_Matt]

Well if they are on the  other maps then I don't know what the problem is. BTW what does the hint brush do?

[[db@]Megabite]

You can tweak ingame and compiling performance with correctly used hint brushes. They give the compiler "hints" about visibility calculation.

You should google for a quake3 mapping tutorial explaining basics such as this. I cannot provide any links atm, just have some german tutorials linked...

Danny

[Vector_Matt]

Megabite"]You should google for a quake3 mapping tutorial explaining basics such as this.

I've read several good tutorials, they just never mentioned the hint brush.

[OverFlow]

Hint brushes are used to control the way vis splits up your map.  Very useful if you need to do some optimizing.  

There are probably a few tutorials on hinting specifically, but most general tutorials aren't going to cover it since i think a lot of people don't use it.

[Survivor]

Megabite"]You should google for a quake3 mapping tutorial explaining basics such as this.

I've read several good tutorials, they just never mentioned the hint brush.

From my home forum Advanced hint tutorial

[[db@]Megabite]

Mh, I guess you should rethink you judgement on those tutorials, then...

Any tutorial I would deem "good" should at least basically explain the special shaders / brushes in the "common" folder as their functionality cannot be ignored while building a quality map. Performance is an issue at last...

Danny

[OneEyedTrouserSnake]

Thanks for the link to the tutorial.

I found the answer on another thread on this board:

http://www.tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=649&highlight=shader

I needed to send the switch -fs_base base to the bsp compile, otherwise it kept looking in baseq3