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Portals / details / etc confusion(newb)

by Graham Slater · in Constructor · 07/16/2008 (4:22 pm) · 2 replies

Hi. I made my first structure and am very confused of where i would use details and how to setup portals correctly.. ill just upload my structure so all can check it out and see how i did it so far.. http://www.nugblazers.com/files/cripp_wall.zip

and about seaming walls together.. im not sure if im supposed to do it really close, overlapping a tiny, or what..

i think thats about it... sorry for such newb questions, just more used to polysoup :D
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Torque Owner Ryan Mounts
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#1
07/21/2008 (8:53 am)
Hey Graham, all brushes that enclose a zone need to be structural. I pretty much make everything else detail because you'll end up with less faces. For example, in your cripp_wall structure, if you were going to place some pillars in one of the rooms, you would make them detail brushes because they don't form any of the zone boundaries.

Regular brushes should not overlap. It'll usually function okay if they do, but it's bad design.

Your portals in that file probably won't work (I didn't try to export it). They should be very thin, like a pane of glass in a window, and should slightly overlap the structural brushes surrounding them. Also, try not to place multiple portals in the same plane. On the front of your structure, for example, you have a couple of doors that lie in the exact same plane... move them very slightly so that they still overlap the surrounding structural brushes but no longer lie in-plane with one another.

Check out the info on TDN.

Torque Owner Graham Slater
#2
07/21/2008 (1:04 pm)
Ok well pretty much the whole thing atm forms the zones boundaries i think.. ill adjust those portals too, thanks alot for the infos ill post if i have more questions. :)