[article] Triangle Terrain 1: The Basics

This is a discussion topic for the article "Triangle Terrain 1: The Basics" by ReNo which can be found here

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Cover any area you wish in some complex looking yet easy to make terrain

I would think that you would run a large risk of LOTS of leaks that way. I dono

It'd be hell to try and find a leak in that mess, but the result is well worth it.

link down

hey blasterX, the link is indeed down, but I found out that if you click the link, you can change the url from snarkpit.com to snarkpit.net and it'll work!

So this one should work: http://www.snarkpit.net/pits/reno/tutorials/terraintut.zip

Welcome to the Snarkpit by the way

Edit: Oh the same goes for the other terrain tutorials by the way. Good luck!

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Thats why you put a nodraw under it. Leaks be gone.

You shouldn't do that with this because the triangles are bsp geometry (goldsource doesnt have displacements) and the most optimum thing to do is fix a hole in the triangles rather than putting a null brush under everything to seal the world.

Apparently though regarding optimization, covering the sides/bottom of the triangles in the bevel texture (bevel = null + removes clip nodes) helps a lot.

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thanks