Share Pictures of HOMs and discuss them too thread...

[SteadZ]

Share pics of the worst HOMs that you've ever seen. Mine is actually in a map that I'm creating at the moment and it is literally a Hall Of Mirrors ->

(BTW, I'd actually quite like some help with this, it is horrible and crops up when you're walking down the corridor )

[Buff Skeleton]

That is pretty impressive. If you post a full editor screenshot (or at least wireframe/2D) we can probably tell where your brushwork is messed up, since it doesn't look even. Is everything on the grid?

[SteadZ]

It was off grid, no wonder I was getting those HOMs. Thanks for that advice Waff , now I know that you're supposed to keep BSP on grid, I won't have any more problems .

(I knew that there was some reason for the grid being there)

[Jigoku]

I never pay attention to that blue grid.

[SteadZ]

The one in 3D mode or 2D?

[SteadZ]

Right, I've got another problem. I present you... (drumroll) ...The Vanishing Light!

Take one light (brush and actor)... ->

Move down the corridor closer to it... ->

POOF! it vanishes.

(The brush is semisolid, so I would have thought that this shouldn't be happening.)

[Jigoku]

The 3D grid. And your problem might be cause it's outside on the grid along with the brush.

[Gizzy]

Keeping to the grid is rule numero uno of UnrealED

[Buff Skeleton]

Don't use semisolids unless you have a very good reason to (i.e. you've tried solid and it breaks every time no matter what). And never use nonsolid unless you have an EXTREMELY good reason (like it's a zone portal (always nonsolid), or a light fixture that has a corona inside it).

[Semfry]

I never pay attention to that blue grid.

Everything about the engine and it's calculations is based around the grid. If you don't use it your level will die.

[Z-enzyme]

Don't use semisolids unless you have a very good reason to

This one here. This just bugs me as I have heard different opinions on this one. Like, "decos should be semisolid," "don't use too much solid brushes..." and so on and so on... And now Waff says what I was always doing. I HATE semisolids.

[Maxer 64]

Is Waffnuffly all of our future selves now?

Link: http://www.unrealsp.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2298&p=52757#p52757 This is where i got it from.

[Buff Skeleton]

Don't use semisolids unless you have a very good reason to

This one here. This just bugs me as I have heard different opinions on this one. Like, "decos should be semisolid," "don't use too much solid brushes..." and so on and so on... And now Waff says what I was always doing. I HATE semisolids.

I think mainly nobody really knew what the deal was until fairly recently (like within a few years from now) compared to back in the early 2000s, but yeah. Semisolids and nonsolids are evil.

[Jigoku]

I'm making the most randomest map for Unreal and UT now and it didn't die (whew). Maxer 64 don't say anything!! I guess pillars should be semisolids?

[Buff Skeleton]

Nothing should be semisolid unless you absolutely have to make it semisolid.