Strange shadow Created 17 years ago2007-06-16 10:32:15 UTC by The Mad Carrot

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There's a large shadow going from left to right, and some dark area at the top right. I don't know what is causing this, there are no invisible brushes in the sky or anything.

I have removed the launch pad, towers and Shuttle to see if any those are causing it, but the shadows still appear.

Anyone know how i can get rid of it?

Check for 'tools_sky'-textured brushes in the 3D skybox, which might correspond with that area.
I had the same problem in Railway21. I had made the map bigger, but left the limits of the skybox in the same place.

It's looking great, by the way.
I don't know if you have planned it, but you could give the ground texture an env_map mask to make the sea, rivers or lagoons be a bit reflective. It would be a great touch.

I have some sky brushes surounding the part the will be rendered in the skybox, but if i remove those, i get a leak.

Im not really sure what you're saying...

I'm saying that the skybox area might be smaller than the actual map area, and the brushes that make up the limits of the skybox are the ones making that shadow. At least that's what my problem was.

OMG... how big is that ground texture?!?!?!

Maybe this isn't helping, try applying a small texture to it?... Not really sure though

Now that you mention it, i moved the skybrushes a little of that part... Ill redo the 3D skybox part.
Doing it now.

Alex: its not one big brush with one big textures fitted on it, those are 16 brushes, each with a 1024*1024 texture fitted on it.

This is how it usually happens:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6065/skyboxba8.jpg

You may just want to visgroup the skybox for now just to see if it really has anything to do with the problem. I am willing to bet, though, that the skybox is the root of the problem, though.

I now totally understand what was causing it and its fixed!
Thansk Kasp! Ftw!