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NameUser

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In my map, at theedges there are upwards slopes at a 90 degree angle done with the clipping tool. However, for some reason they have some odd lighting issues. Various peices of them will appear darker than the rest, or even pure black. Does anyone know the cause of this?
My second questions is a matter of how to do something optimally. I want to remove the slopes and just replace them with a plain stretching into the distance, scattered with a few trees. My question is, how could I do this? The obvious solution would be to just have a peice of ground stretching off out of the skybox, but I'm pretty sure that is a major optimization 'no, no'. So what would be the best way to go about this?
 
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LeSwordfish

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Second question: use a 3D skybox. These allow the game to render a small, optimisable area at a massive scale.

First question: Well, firstly, never use the Carve tool. I'ts a pain, because it often makes very poorly optimised shapes. Secondly, the only advice i can give you there is to remake the brushes. That isn't a new problem though, so with a bit of luck someone else can help.
 

NameUser

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Second question: use a 3D skybox. These allow the game to render a small, optimisable area at a massive scale.

First question: Well, firstly, never use the Carve tool. I'ts a pain, because it often makes very poorly optimised shapes. Secondly, the only advice i can give you there is to remake the brushes. That isn't a new problem though, so with a bit of luck someone else can help.
My mistake. I used the clipping tool, not the carve tool.
 

NameUser

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I've got another question, but I already have a thread, so no reason to make a new one. ;)

Is there any way to get a weapon's model to work properly as a prop? When I set a prop_static to have a weapon's model, it doesn't show in game.
 

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For the future: when you are viewing a prop in the model browser, look at the Info tab. The boxes checked indicate what kind of prop you can use the model as. Usually static is available and you should use that, but sometimes things need to be dynamic (lantern002.mdl for example).
 
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NameUser

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One more question, this one being more of a curiousity. Those balls that are often seen in trade maps. How are they done? I mean, I can find the prop for it of course, but how do I apply the physics to it?
 

NameUser

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I hate to keep asking questions, and I feel like you must think I'm not trying to figure out things on my own (I am. IF I wasn't I would have asked ALOT more questions :p). For one, the balls has physics applied now, but it has a minor issue. It's solid while it's not moving, and non-solid after you've hit it. How can I make it solid after being hit, or non-solid before being hit?
Also, my water is very messed up and is showing the skybox rather than the water or a reflection. I beleive this is because I screwed up building the cubemaps, however if I try to build them again Team Fortress 2 instantly crashes. I assume this is because it has already built the cubemaps. Is there any way to remove th cubemaps?
 

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Not sure about the ball,

But the water is because you have a leak (a hole into the void). You need to seal your map up for the water to work. i.e: compile the map, and then load the pointfile, it will have a red line appear along the path where the leak is, find it, seal it. compile the map again, load the pointfile again, seal any leaks again.

Repeat until no red line pops up (you'll get a window asking if you want to load a file)...

Or you could be in full bright, which to fix this, you just add some lights.
 

NameUser

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No full bright, so it must be a leak. Odd, I didn't notice any leak errors when I compile. Anyways, thanks. I'll fix that.