why does this brush have weird lighting? | Source Engine | Page 1

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:11 PM

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i didn't change the luxel scale and it started to look like this after i made the brush a triangle with the vertex tool

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:12 PM

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How do the vislsafs look?

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:12 PM

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what's the command to make visleafs visible?

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i forgot

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:12 PM

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Mat_visleaf 3 or something

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Sv_cheats 1

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Can also load the portal file in the vmf

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:13 PM

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lighting preview is fucked with this brush specifically, in hammer++ fsr

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:14 PM

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Make a hint and skip wedge to force vis to cut the leaves as you want

hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:15 PM

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remake the brush

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:15 PM

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why would remaking the brush just suddenly fix it?

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i can try, i guess, but i don't see how that would fix it

hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:15 PM

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you probably vertex tooled wrong

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try using the clipping tool instead

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:16 PM

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The brush details in the vfm might be messed up and off grid

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:16 PM

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shit ur right lmao

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:16 PM

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Ohh like a hidden face from not merged vertex?

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:16 PM

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i changed it slightly with the vertex tool and it fixed it's self (in the hammer++ lighting preview at least)

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hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:16 PM

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no

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youve vertex trooled wrong

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a triangle should not have 4 verts

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:17 PM

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oh

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:17 PM

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Yea that ain't right you want a triangle cut from a cube not a cube made into a triangle

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:18 PM

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sorry, i'm really not experienced with hammer 😭

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:18 PM

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Make a cube and clip it from corner to corner

hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:18 PM

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make a cube, use clipping tool and draw a line across the diagonal

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press enter

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you now have a triangle

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:19 PM

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yea kinda forgot the clipping tool existed

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whoops

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:19 PM

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Shift x, shift v are your friend

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Stay on grid too

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:19 PM

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steady drum Stay on grid too

ya ik

hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:20 PM

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alternatively with the vertex tool you can just drag one vertex down into another and press "yes" when it asks if you want to merge vertices

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clipping tool is safest option though

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:20 PM

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i'd rather just use the clipping tool

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ty for the help

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:21 PM

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Wait till you get lost in inclined/declined, curved and vertex stair land

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:22 PM

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viral lava ty for the help

god dammit

sweet tundra Jul 28, 2023, 9:24 PM

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are you compiling with fast vis

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:24 PM

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nope

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:24 PM

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Mat_leafvis 3

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And mat_wireframe 1 2 or 3

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:25 PM

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steady drum Mat_leafvis 3

it's easier to see with the portalfile

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actually this is probably better

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:27 PM

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Yea those lines look like they're split from the water corner and are affecting the lighting

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Copy that wedge piece cover it in skip scale it across the water and hint the two visible faces maybe?

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Might change the way that's getting split up

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:29 PM

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steady drum Copy that wedge piece cover it in skip scale it across the water and hint the tw...

i'm not sure what you mean by that first part

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:33 PM

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make a hint and skip wedge across the water to see if that affects the slipts. Does that make sense

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:37 PM

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i don't know what you mean by "skip wedge across the water to see if that affects the slipts" and i tried making a hint but that didn't make a difference

hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:37 PM

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just make it a func_detail

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:37 PM

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wouldn't that cause a leak though?

hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:37 PM

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water + world geo has rendering artifacts

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put world geo behind it

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:37 PM

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right

hollow marlin Jul 28, 2023, 9:37 PM

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or inside it

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you just want where water touches brush, for the brush to be a detail brush

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:43 PM

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turning it into a func_detail made the weird lighting even sharper

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 9:50 PM

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like that maybe

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 9:57 PM

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steady drum like that maybe

didn't fix it

steady drum Jul 28, 2023, 10:03 PM

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maybe lower the water?

viral lava Jul 28, 2023, 10:09 PM

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steady drum maybe lower the water?

i removed the water and it didn't fix it

#why does this brush have weird lighting?