See through sky. Created 20 years ago2004-08-12 11:17:52 UTC by Marlborometal

Hi!.
Recently I came with a nice problem... Let?s see... Imagine two rooms whose floor is at 0 height. First one has its ceiling at 100. Second one at 200. Both of them have sky textures as ceiling... Now, if I put something in room 2 above the room 1 ceiling I can actually see it from room 1 as if the sky was transparent.
This thing is bugging me since you can see parts of the map I?m making by looking at the sky!.
Is there any way of avoiding this?. I guess that putting a brush in the middle so it blocks the line of sight through the sky could hide the second room but then this brush would be visible, am I wrong?.
So well, any help is welcome while I try to investigate.
Peace :).

PS: If you can?t imagine the situation just try two rooms, one above the other. The one below has sky in the ceiling. When you stand down there and look up you will see the room above!.

i dunno, i guess you would texture the bottom of the above room with sky, so it appears as it instead of solid pieces...

That's a common problem.
The two rooms are probably connected directly.
If you want the things behind the sky to be hidden, you must hide them from the renderer.
You should be familiar with the visibility calculation of HL, there are many articles on it.
You could either change your map, or, if possible, use HINT brushes to hide the second room.

I couldn't do anything about this :

It wouldn't even draw the top room's ceiling when there was a world brush over it. I doubt it's avoidable :(. Perhaps a trigger_teleport'd help you in your map, or other trickery?

sounds like a wierd map...

SOLUTION: dont build rooms above sky level.... i dont understand why you would want to anyway.!

maybe you can explain.

Im not getting the problem... Is there a leak or something in your level?

you dont understand the question.

O.k. Seems I didn?t get to explain the thing properly but it doesn?t matter anymore ?cos I solved it.
There is never a room over a sky brush, my god!, who would ever do that??? (well, it can be done, but... bah, I?m not playing that game :P). The thing was easier as one outside area had an higher ceiling than other one. Simple, huh?.
Solved anyway.

if your compiling with nems batch compiler you should turn off skyfix! that will fix all your problems.