Brushes disappearing Created 18 years ago2006-01-30 06:12:53 UTC by L o D

I did a search for this but did not get a result so if theres already a post about this... Sorry.

My brushes are disappearing. A river that I make disappears when I get in a certain position near it or in it, as does the ladder near it. Can someone please tell me why a brush would just completely disappear when you get too close to it???

Are you running Software mode? Software mode can only render 800 polygons. Anything above will dissapear. Its still there, but its simply not drawn by the engine.

No, I am running in OpenGL.

Did you turn the water in a func_water?

And as for the ladder, the ladder is made out of 2 brushes:

• The actual ladder, which is visible, turn this into a func_wall with render mode solid and render amount 255
• An AAATRIGGER texture in front of the ladder which is the invisible climable part (func_ladder)

Try these out.

Some dubious brushwork will disappear from certain angles. You didn't carve a load of stuff, or do a load of crazy VM?

Yes, I made them func_water.

I did that, muzzle, except I think I made my ladder's render mode texture instead of solid. I'll try out solid.

And I didn't carve or VM any of the water or latter brushes. What else could be causing this? It happened before as well, and I remade the entire riverbank and water, and its doing it again just in different places. And the water brush that is disappearing is 1 brush. So I will walk halfway down the river brush and it disappears when I get to a certain spot...

is this for source? i cant think of making a whole river out of one brush in HL1 :

I once had a similer problem when I tied many brushes to a func_water together, some didn't show up. Tie each brush seperatly.

The whole river isnt 1 brush, I mean just the brush is disappearing. Like, just the 1 brush I walk down will disappear halfway down it, but other parts of the river are on seperate brushes.

Elon: All my brushes are tied seperately. I selected them individually and tied them to func_water.

Muzzle: I made the render mode for the ladders solid instead of texture and they're just not fullbright now but they still disappear... What do I do guys I've been trying to get this map released for a long time

Did you set the render amount for the ladder brush? (The func_wall part)

Yes, I set them to 255.

Highlander: You mean there can only be 1 func_water entity per map??? Each water brush has its own func_water

he means you cant tie 1 func_water to multiple brushes.

this is strange indeed. Are you using quake compile tools?
is your map huge?
is there a massive leak, causing the engine to explode?

Might be best to upload your troublesome map and let some of us take a look at it first-hand. At least you can check if it's a problem with your system specifically, or if it's reproducable. It's probably hard to tell what causes this without seeing it, I think.

No my map isnt huge, but its not small. I'm using zoners hl tools. and there are no leaks according to the compilation log.

Okay, I removed the water brushes from the river, and the ladder and some other stuff (that was disappearing before) are still disappearing. Could this be caused by a lighting issue or something??

We don't know! We can't see anything, so why don't you just upload it to the problem map vault, and someone we'll check it out.

Is the func_wall, func_ladder and func_water touching eachother? I founf out that sometimes when they are it can cause wierd problems, if they cross eachother from a sertain angle and such.

when it did that for me i just moved around the ladder a little bit and it worked fine.

No, they are not touching each other.

Okay guys, I fixed it. I just started eliminating everything around the problematic area. I had quite a few plants in my river, and I got rid of some and the brushes didnt disappear! So I deleted some of the plants, and its all working now! Apparently, too many plants or something can cause that. Thanks for everyone trying to help me! Much appreciated!

I think he'll have too many epolies because of the plants before he'll get that error. You can have only 400 models in a map.

rebuild your brush

Don't you read? He said he fixed the problem.