coronas in glass

(wingbullet) #1

i’m trying to make some oil-lamps with coronas, the problem is that when i place the corona inside the lamps (glass-textured) the corona’s dont show up because there’s a ‘wall’ between you and the corona. :disgust:
what can i do about it??

(carnage) #2

umm, this is a prety common problem and there isnt realy much of a solution other than place the corana outside the lamp

if you are using moddles for you oil lamp then by setting it as a misc_gamemodle will not block the corana but will add 1 to your entity count for every lamp you add

(thegnat) #3

Have you clipped the models? If you clipped it manually, then just lower the clipbrush so it doesn’t intersect with the corona. If you clipped it by spawnflag, clip manually. :wink: Or just place the corona 1 unit outside of the model/clipbrush.
That worked for me.

(wingbullet) #4

:frowning:

think ik have to make them models then

(thegnat) #5

The other way would be to write new shaders for the materials, to make them nonsolid. But on the other hand, making them ASE models gives you many advantages in positioning (rotating and such).