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Posted by Kampy on Fri Aug 7th at 12:28pm 2009

Ive added some displacements behind the skyboxes to make it look more realistic, but one of them somehow disappears at the certain angle when you look at it. Do you know why and how to stop this from happening? smiley





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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Aug 7th at 12:44pm 2009

Displacements behind the skyboxes? What do you mean by that? The displacements stick outside the level or through the brush textures with the sky texture?


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Posted by Kampy on Fri Aug 7th at 4:31pm 2009

It doesnt need to have to do with the skybox. It's just beyond the skybox so you can see it but not walk to it.



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Posted by Le Chief on Sat Aug 8th at 4:57am 2009

Is the displacement in a 3D Skybox?


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Posted by reaper47 on Sat Aug 8th at 4:24pm 2009

You accidentally the whole skybox? ???

Could be a weird vis effect.
If you actually placed this outside the skybox, no wonder.



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Posted by Kampy on Sat Aug 8th at 9:07pm 2009

it could of course be because its outside the skybox, but the other displacements that can be seen on the picture are outside as well and I believe Ive seen it inside somewhere too although Im not sure.



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Posted by reaper47 on Sat Aug 8th at 9:55pm 2009

Quoting Kampy
it could of course be because its outside the skybox, but the other displacements that can be seen on the picture are outside as well and I believe Ive seen it inside somewhere too although Im not sure.


Sorry man, I don't get it. You didn't seriously put this outside the map? If you did, the problem is so obvious, the question sounds a little funny...

Do you mean it is inside the skybox? Like, outside the map itself but inside the "sky_camera" area of the 3D skybox? If so, it is probably hidden by vis. Note that brushes with the "skybox" or "nodraw" texture can block visibility while still being fully transparent. This can result in odd cuts and disappearances.

Nevertheless, I'm confused...



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Posted by Le Chief on Sun Aug 9th at 1:47am 2009

How do you put a displacement outside the skybox? smiley


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Posted by Kampy on Mon Aug 10th at 8:26pm 2009

whats the problem- its not like an entity. its a brush- just create it.



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Posted by reaper47 on Tue Aug 11th at 12:12am 2009

Quoting Kampy
whats the problem- its not like an entity. its a brush- just create it.


Sorry, but I'm really running out of patience... Please read your thread from the beginning. There is no way we could possibly guess your problem.



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Posted by Le Chief on Tue Aug 11th at 5:25am 2009

I'm totally confused as to what your trying to tell us. smiley

I think you mean that you have the displacement inside a 3D skybox.

Maybe you could take some screenshots of this displacement in Hammer?



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Posted by Kampy on Tue Aug 11th at 7:36am 2009

just forget it - I will just leave the bug as it is.

this is how I meant it:





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Posted by Le Chief on Tue Aug 11th at 7:54am 2009

Weird.. see I considered that but then thought how would it show up in game if it's outside the world.

In any case, there is no point in doing that, I'm surprised it showed up ingame! If you want the displacement to appear distant than you need to make a 3D skybox or make the world big enough so that you can place the displacement at a far enough distance.

3D Skybox:



Extend Size Of World:




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Posted by Kampy on Tue Aug 11th at 8:08am 2009

I saw that in some standard TF2 map so I used it behind the skybox. Im not sure its because of the skybox though.





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Posted by fishy on Tue Aug 11th at 11:11am 2009

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If even the smallest piece of displacement is visible to the player, like just a small corner sticking through a skybrush, then the whole displacement will get rendered. However, if the engine says that that small corner is not visible to the player anymore, then the whole displacement is ignored.
This will likely be the reason for your displacement appearing/disappearing when you look at it from different angles.



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Posted by Kampy on Tue Aug 11th at 6:32pm 2009

nice! thanks!




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