areaportals

Oke, got a small probleme with a map a remade.

It's bigger then the normal 1 so I tought I use some areaportals.

Now my problem is. I got no sealed area's with windows and/or doors!

What can I use there for?

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Thx in advantage

1st Take a deep breath and formulate your sentences. I can't really tell what your asking.

2nd I saw the term areaportals. Why not do a search for another topic
about areaportals. I came up with 15 different topic about areaportals
that you could have posted in.

3rd Its amazing what you can find with google:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Controlling_Geometry_Visibility_and_Compile_Times

Took me abour 10 sec to find this.

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Posting And You

Omega, I understood him perfectly after I looked at his home.

Sometimes, there might not be a Belgium version of a tutorial he could find.

Seriously, some of us need to practice some tact where members and written English is concerned. :sad:

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Bah humbug

there is a 400 queue for WoW right now =P

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Posting And You

As a person whom is often misunderstood I am a bit sensitive when others are picked on for their print.

I wasn't picking on you Omega, just pointing out that perhaps his sentences were about as good as they will ever be if English is not his chosen language. Picking on them probably wasn't the best course you could have taken.

/me shuts up now.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Thx for standing up for us orph :wink:

Since belgium is small we simply have to use english etc. While
writing/talking doesnt always go smoothly, most belgians understand it
quite well.

anyway, the site Omega provided gives excellent info. There are indeed
other techniques besides areaportals, if you havent got separated rooms.

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

As a person whom is often misunderstood I am a bit sensitive when others are picked on for their print.
I wasn't picking on you Omega, just pointing out that perhaps his
sentences were about as good as they will ever be if English is not his
chosen language. Picking on them probably wasn't the best course you
could have taken.

/me shuts up now.

Naw I wasnt mad or anything, I was just a little pissy at the moment
becuase I was in a line of 400 to get into world of warcrack (I needed
my fix).

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Posting And You

omegaslayer said:
Naw I wasnt mad or anything, I was just a little pissy at the moment becuase I was in a line of 400 to get into world of warcrack (I needed my fix).

Considering WoW is pay to play and still addictive, does Blizzard (or who ever released it) at least hand out rubber hoses so the needle slides into the vein easier? :heee:

I wish WoW wasn't PtP

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Ok.

My problem is that I have a large area with tunnels in it but allso a large outside area. Now with does tunnels my FPS drops from 100 to 20 :sad: and Valve are useing areaportals for huge outside area's to. But for some reason I can't get it working well.

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Thx in advantage

You have to close off the entire area from one another (eg: you have to
put an func_areaportal_window brush ent in every window, door, and
anywhere that is open to the outer area).

They have to be consealed by brushes as well, no func_(anything) ents.
In essence you can place a HUGE func_areaportal_window right down the
middle of your level, essentially cutting your level into two halfs
(from sky brush to sky brush). But this can lead to strange effects
that you may not want.

Look into the env_fog_controller, this ent will allow you to stop
drawing far off polygons in your scene, while allowing them to fade
away into "fog"

Really you shouldnt use area portals if you dont know what your doing.
But there is a tutorial on the snarkpit that explains areaportals a
bit. Do a search on google.

orph - they hand out rubber tubes for our IVs that we hook up to
ourselves for those 10+hrs raids we all go on. And I really don't mind
the PtP games (for 15$ a month I get a lot of pleasure and happyness
out of it :smile: )

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Posting And You

Ok I wil ltry something out :smile: , I will let you know if it has worked

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Thx in advantage

Ok ive tryed it (put fnc_areaportal_window into all open spaces) and it works :smile:

I THINK i know now how it works

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Thx in advantage