Black lines? Created 18 years ago2006-06-02 21:02:16 UTC by TheTikiTony

Notice WAYYY in the background, there's these black lines that keep appearing over the last of the ceiling joyces, any idea why? Is it fixable? It's not a view distance error, or a clipping error, and there's no brush inside it. It also doesn't do it to the joyce directly above the player when standing at the other end.

It is not looking into a void, the images do not repeat. And i set the view distance to a ridiculously high number.

Can you circle what you are talking about? the only thing I see is anti-aliasing of far away blocks.

It does look like surface overlapping (z-fighting) caused by the viewable distance.
The max viewable distance you specify in the map is related to what the engine can draw, not the way you see it. For example, you will see the smaller mipmap version of a distant texture with a low screen resolution even if your max viewable distance is huge.

Max Viewable distance >> what the HL engine renders
Screen resolution >> how your gfx card renders it

Try using a higher screen resolution and see if it changes.

Hey nice map =) But the car looks a little blurry =/

thanks rednik. I got the textures off of Evilsod_2k's example map : cars.
I didn't like his prefab cars though, too blocky, so unfortunately, the blurriness is here to stay. Although part of it is my computer due to the fact that my computer doesn't run any anisetrophic filtering :(.

I can't see the black lines, but great map anyway!

(Now I can see why your compile is taking so long :P)

yeah, i'm making the ground about 5-6 brushes rather than the 30-40 for each room that it is in that picture, and I also took about 4-5 lights that were unnecessary :D, and thanks, I've been mapping for a while but never really dedicated to finishing a map, hoping to put out some good maps, can't wait to see ur comments. Thanks again for all the help rowley bob. Talk to you later man.

Hey guys, I thought I'd give an update, I managed to change the compile times from 2 1/2 hours to 26 minutes. Here are some pics of the final result, much smaller though.

http://tikigameproductions.jconserv.net/viewtopic.php?p=5#5

Have you tried compiling with full vis & extra rad?
Not a bad looking map, btw

no not yet, but I'll wait out the compile time in the end. but to go from 2 and half hours to 26 minutes in any case is a HUGE improvement.

Try compiling with full vis and rad and see, if that fixes your problem. Such overalpping bugs are usually avoided with full compiles.
And if you've compiled with fast vis and rad - you shouldn't be surprised of having such problems.