Unbreakable Tip 2 Created 19 years ago2005-06-07 21:15:17 UTC by Unbreakable

When tieing an entity to a func_wall, so you can get rid of the blue on {Textures try tieing them separatly instead of tieing them all together.
Why you ask.. Simple.. Check the pic:Notice the difference.. so next time when creating a platform type elevator.. would'nt hurt to use three parts.

why didnt i know that...

Interesting. May just be a bug in Software, though, and you're the only person of whom I know who uses that :P.

No it heppens in all the graphics, Seventh. I prefer the softwere but when I noticed a little bug I changed it to Direct3D and it fixed it. Nice, Unbreakable, although I knew that already.

What the hell is different beween the two pictures? I have been looking and Cannot see a difference.

the farser awey fence is seen through the closer if they are tied sepertly!

haha, I just realised.
Man I am so unobservant.

I couldn't see it for awhile either, G_. Doesn't help that they're from different angles, I was looking at the lighting for literally a minute or two.

Wow that is awsome! Great tip Unreakable!

Now my damn fences won't magically 'disappear' anymore

Thank-you.. Glad to oblige you fellow scientist.

Software mode! hahahahahahahha!...

So what it looks better only it has many bugs in it!!!

Software? Looks better?

That just made my day ;DD

Software is so 1996. D3D = leet. You do have a good reason to be using it, though, mr. Unb.

Haven't you noticed that in OpenGL each brush looks sepert from the other even if they are well aglined!!! Well...comes to think of it I only saw that when I played the singleplayer with openGL and I don't know how he aglined them! Now when I map myself I use Direct3D!! :

OpenGL's best for almost everyone.

Well got a thin screen that doesn't like this graphic! :

D3D = leet

openGL is teh 1337

Actually I agree with Elon.. I thnk Software mode looks better. More clearer, when in OpenGL Everything is Blurred together, making it crap.. although, yes it has bugs, light Sprites would be a big example.

Erm, software is awful. It doesn't mip, does it? OpenGL is what HL is designed for. Software is alright, and D3D was just for cards that didn't support OpenGL well years ago.

Thats why when I play in Quake 2 I use software mode! If I'll use openGL the enemys wont have faces! In half-life it wont look that bad for the faces are not only a texture there are a little bit more 3D! Anyway why does hl1 uses sprites for explotions Quake 2's explotions look much better?

software only looks reasonably good at low res. at high res it looks the same as it does when it is in low res. thats why you have to use openGL.

and ive never noticed any thing blured together, screens

Screens will be posted to show the difference.. Give me till tonight.

since no one did, i made pics

The hallway is nowhere near finished. the lightbeams are made of many func_illusionary's. each one set to render mode: additive and render amount: 2

SOFTWARE:

if that doesn't work

Direct 3D:

again if that doesn't work

OpenGL:

...guess

in software the lightbeams didn't even display, but there was HEAVY lag.

in D3d every thing was fine until you walked through the beams, where some lag developed.

in OpenGL there was no lag.

and I never got that rainbow effect before, but then again this is the first time I have done a compile with Rad on a map with that many Func_illusionarys. anyone ever notice it before?

The bug that realy ennoyed me is that I saw someting through a solid, non trasperent brush!!!

Um - you can Fake the effect with just 1 brush (or 4 if you want to be really picky)

Ever see some NS screenshots with beams shining through "Grates"?
One Brush.