- Jul 31, 2009
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So I've got some tunnels and cliffsides, and they all work OK for the purposes of checking paths and map effects... but but now I want to add displacement goodness, but it turns my "tunnels" and "walls" into the VIS-equivalent of swiss-cheese.
So here's my question to the forums: Any tips for this? And if I made a program that would auto-magically "back" a displacement brush with another nodraw brush, would it be useful?
I've already got a small Python script that parses the VMF. I figure it might be an interesting project to have a script that goes and...
Or am I trying to go after a mostly-solved/unimportant problem?
So here's my question to the forums: Any tips for this? And if I made a program that would auto-magically "back" a displacement brush with another nodraw brush, would it be useful?
I've already got a small Python script that parses the VMF. I figure it might be an interesting project to have a script that goes and...
- Identify all displacement brushes.
- Identify the non-displacement faces of those brushes (let's call them "emtpy sides" for lack of a better term.)
- Find empty sides which are not entirely flush with a VIS-blocking brush.
- Add a nodraw "cap" in a custom visgroup.
Or am I trying to go after a mostly-solved/unimportant problem?