Invalid solid structure Created 8 years ago2016-04-01 16:47:33 UTC by Yashka

Greetings!
I've been recently pumped up to do some more medieval RPG mapping in VHE, and decided to take on a greater task than a simple tavern - a town.

However, I'm having a bit of a problem. The main street splits like a "Y", similar to cs_italy if anyone remembers it. The problem is that I cannot get the walls to curve around properly, without getting a problem. The walls are made of individual connected pieces, which I modify to add curves.

It's either :
a) - An invalid solid structure error in VHE, while it compiles just fine and looks splendid in-game.
b) - No errors in VHE, looks properly connected to the other wall piece as well, yet in-game there is a very slight, but noticeable unalignment to the other wall piece.

Here's a picture (this is when there's an invalid solid structure) -Any ideas on what may be causing this?

Oh, forgot to add this too -

The 4 vertices dont create a flat plane. You'll probably have to manually triangulate the faces. It sucks, but it's just the limitation of the engine. Also, you can manually check for errors before compiling with Alt-P.

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Whipped up a quick example for you because I'm TERRIBLY bored at work right now.Clicky for example

Oh boy, those look pretty complex, but are exactly what I need! Many thanks!

I am used to Jackhammer, but VHE still has the same feature...

You don't have to cut it up into triangles, nor tetrahedrons, since you can simply split the faces using the Ctrl + F command.
It's done inside the VM tool, you just select 2 'white' vertices, which are, umm, adjacent to each other, and then you apply the command.

You're quite welcome. They're pretty complex, yes, but have patience when you're doing your vertex manipulations and you should be fine.

I've figured them out, but I'm curious, is it safe to grab my basic sloped wall brush and triangulate it with the clipping tool?

Do you mean to take your existing wall and cut it into tetrahedrons?
You can try, but the geometry might be difficult to work with.

I would recommend keeping geometry as simple as possible and only use the tetrahedrons when other methods fail you.

I split my existing walls like this -Once I split them, one of them was unaligned, so I just aligned it and it all worked out. No errors, and everything is simple.

Thanks again Tetsu0!

cool! glad to see it all worked out

Sledge has no issues handing floating points. I'm serious when I say its a superior tool to Hammer

So Sledge align the floating points to the grid automatically ?

I'm not quite sure what this particular floating point issue is, but it doesn't align anything to the grid automatically. But it should behave the same as VHE when it comes to saving/loading maps. Internally Sledge uses fixed-point decimals which avoids a lot of issues with floating point rounding.