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Connecting multiple portal brushes...

by David Montgomery-Blake · in Constructor · 12/19/2007 (11:43 am) · 0 replies

I cannot seem to find the topic, but there was one a while back about using multiple portal brushes to mask large areas (say streets). I did a simple test to see if I could connect portal brushes together in a similar fashion that was being asked for in the topic. I did it in a simple manner.

www.godsendproductions.com/images/tge_portaltest_1.jpg
First, I created a basic hallway. Then I changed the ceiling and the "front" to portal brushes and overlapped them with the surrounding walls. This means that the ceiling portal and the "front" portal were connected. Then I carved a door in the "back wall", converted the brush I used to carve with to a portal and expanded it a bit to overlap its couple of brushes. Then I created a large brush and hollowed it to create the larger room.

I used export to DIF and portals seem to be working okay in TGE from Constructor 1.0.3.

www.godsendproductions.com/images/tge_portaltest_2.jpg
I'm not sure what the point of trying this out was except to see if it would work since I had a moment and was testing detail brushes earlier.

EDIT: damn image filenames...

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