What the hell does this mean Created 20 years ago2003-10-30 13:59:02 UTC by high_voltage

I've been trying to get rid of a particularly offensive leak that I can't find, and suddenly I'm getting this message as well. Eh????

qbsp2.exe v2.2 (Dec 28 1998)
-- qbsp2 --
WARNING: MakeNodePortal:new portal was clipped away from node@(1182,282,-820)(1196,-248,-724)
LEAK LEAK LEAK

Make sure that all of your extern walls are solids and not func_wall.

One more thing, I see that you are using the "qtools". Download zoner's custom tools instead, you can find them on VERC collectives site
http://collective.valve-erc.com/

will this involve mashing up hammer and rearranging it in all sorts of potentially catastrophic ways? ie will I lose anything

http://www.slackiller.com/tommy14/errors.htm#portalclip

"This indicates an invalid solid of some kind. You will need to find the brush at the coordinates listed and delete/recreate it. Usually this vague problem only happens in the older Q compiling tools, if you install and use the newer versions of Zoner's Compiling tools the problem will go away, or be given a more specific named error. However sometimes even in zoner's this shows up, due to Malformed face normal."

(taken from tommy's site, dont credit me)

is there a quick way of locating those co-ordinates?

will this involve mashing up hammer and rearranging it in all sorts of potentially catastrophic ways? ie will I lose anything

Since no-one bothered to answer no, don't worry, it can't involve anything getting lost

bottom right it has the coordinates. dunno bout quick but look around on them u should find it.