Making a map and got some questions

(Lock Ness Monster) #1

ok, im doing good on most of my map so far, but right now i got a few questions, first of, i dont understand how u make doors and things move, can someone help me with that, second, what do u do to make a spanw point, and second, how do u make the groudn curvey and not flat?

(blushing_bride) #2

to make the ground curvy and not flat you should use a terrian editor (the main one is easygen but gtk radiant also comes with a plugin called gensurf that can be used to make terrian both are difficult to master). if you just want to make a small piece of curvy stuff then make a brush, go to curves menu and select simple patch mesh. select the mesh and press v then fiddle around with the points until you get what you want.

spawn points can be simple or complex but you can see a good example of a basic one in ET by loading up the goldrush sample map

doors, this is for RTCW im fairly sure its the same for ET
http://www.wolfensteinx.com/surface/tutorials/rotating_doors.html

Use the search button in this forum and you will find more detailed explanations of all these things

(Lock Ness Monster) #3

thanks for the help, ill try it, ive already done the sample goldrush thing and i exactly copiued the data to my own spawn point, but it says its my map has a leak and this ling red line comes from it to another location and i have no clue what that means lol, if u could help me fix this, i would be gladly appreciate it, thanks.

(Mr_Tickles) #4

Ok, well, you need to have structural brushes encasing your map. (Brushes are by default structural). Make sure there are no gaps in your skybox, or, if you don’t have a skybox… make one :slight_smile: (A hollow box that contains everything).

(Lock Ness Monster) #5

lol, well i dont have have a sky box, do u think that might be the problem lol :banana:

(Lock Ness Monster) #6

ok, i just made the sky box, and a spawn, but it still says there is a leak?

it says

Entity 0, Brush 91 : duplicate plane when i hit this one it goes to a point on my sky
Entity 9, Brush 0 :entity leak when i hit that one it goes to my spawn i made
map is leaked

(Mr_Tickles) #7

Ok, how are you making your spawn?

Also, for the leak, you need to make everything be inside the skybox… and the skybox needs to be completely airtight (pardon the pun), meaning that you cannot have any gaps what so ever. Just for the sake of testing, overlap each of the six sides of your skybox with the other sides… you did make the box with six brushes didn’t you?

(Lock Ness Monster) #8

about the sky box, i made one big brush theat covered my whole map and holloed it, and about my spawn, i choose to area i wanted, right clicked and when to team< bluespawn thing, but thats about it, i just started a copule of days ago, do u have msn, aim, or anything, cause if u could lead me through this, i would be greatly happy lol

(Mr_Tickles) #9

Alright, but I won’t be here for long and have real life stuff that’s pressing, you have mail :slight_smile:

(Lock Ness Monster) #10

yes i got mail, but do u have any type of im, it would be quicker and easier

(Mr_Tickles) #11

Hmmm, nope sorry, although I should really get my hands on a download of Trillian, been meaning to for some time…