From: Sonya Roberts To: ml@qoole.com Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 14:13:07 -0400 Subject: Re: Erk... dawsonr@LEXMARK.COM wrote: > > OK, can anyone help me on this one, I have just made a 4 story building > with 2 exits out of each story, and stairs coing up to each one as well. > when I try to play the level the bottom floor is a void, like looking at > the outside of the level. this is ascii format of my map I made this mistake once too. The problem is, that probably almost the entire map is visible from that bottom level. Do a VIS to at least a level 2 (pref. a full level 4 VIS), bring up the map in Quake, and say "r_draworder 1" at the console. This will have an effect similar to reversing the drawing order of the polygons, so that the cloest things in view get drawn first and the farthest things get drawn last. You'll likely find that many large areas of the map that you thought were safely hidden behind walls and around corners are now completely visible to you "Yes, Quake has X-Ray vision!". Your map basically needs a complete overhaul to place screening walls around doors and stuff like that so that the Quake engine CAN'T see into all these adjacent areas. Have fun with it - I eventually gave up on my office building map because of all the problems this was causing :\ -- Sonya Roberts ________^ ^ ^ ^________ ^ ^________ ________/(((((((=O!O= =O.O=)))))))\_____=OYO= \________ *---------\_)___(__)/) C\C_)____C_/------C\C_)____C_/---------* MS. BARROW'S CONSENSUAL REALITY http://webhome.idirect.com/~sonyar SONYA'S PAGE OF POV STUFF http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1022 CONTAMINATED LEVELS http://www.trailerpark.com/siesta/sonyar/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE RENDERING TIMES http://www.spake.org/rtimes/