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#1 · July 5, 2011, 10:38 pm

I have a couple of questions and I'm quite new to mapping.

First question: Why does my door have little spikes coming off of it?
http://tinypic.com/r/348k2ue/7

What I want:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/im ... mpl_13.png

Second: How are you supposed to place the indicator lights for buttons??? Since they only come 4 at a time it's such a pain to duplicate them and shift them over and make sure they're all lined up right, never mind rotating them so they're on the wall.

Third: Is there a better texture viewer? I'm trying to find textures for portal 2, not for half life or those other FPS's. The best I can do is type in "concrete" and using that I found one texture that I've been using for all my walls.

Thanks!

#2 · July 5, 2011, 10:56 pm

Number 2: Place the overlay, stretch it in the grid, and then in the overlay entity, change the U/V end/start numbers. Each additional 1 added gives you four more indicator lights in the same overlay entity.

Number 3: I like typing in "wall" in the filter. It gives you a lot of good stuff for your Testchamber walls.

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#3 · July 5, 2011, 11:02 pm

Ok, I'll have to try out the overlay thing...

Remembered another question that I had. The portals on my custom map are black when you look through one portal at another as seen here:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/colecf/scr ... 5537886218
Is there a way to fix that?

#4 · July 6, 2011, 12:40 am

Colecf wrote:

Ok, I'll have to try out the overlay thing...

Remembered another question that I had. The portals on my custom map are black when you look through one portal at another as seen here:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/colecf/scr ... 5537886218
Is there a way to fix that?

Judging from screenshot quality your settings are low. Low settings create black portals to increase performance.

#5 · July 6, 2011, 2:37 am

Colecf wrote:

I have a couple of questions and I'm quite new to mapping.

First question: Why does my door have little spikes coming off of it?
http://tinypic.com/r/348k2ue/7

What I want:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/im ... mpl_13.png

Thanks!

Your walls are too thin. If you're sticking to the grid you should be able to fit a door into a wall without having to look at those ugly spikes. Just move the walls outward from the door until they disappear.

#6 · July 6, 2011, 2:55 am

for your third question I type in "tile" in the texture browser for the white walls and "black" for the black metal walls.

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#7 · July 6, 2011, 6:42 am

My most used textures searches.

Wall.
Ceiling.
Floor.
Overlay.
Signage.
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#8 · July 6, 2011, 6:50 am

The Irate Pirate wrote:

My most used textures searches.

Wall.
Ceiling.
Floor.
Overlay.
Signage.
BTS.

Who doesn't search for those all the time? I also search for tools/ and black.

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#9 · July 6, 2011, 10:28 am

One of mine is "metal" :p

#10 · July 6, 2011, 2:41 pm

Colecf wrote:

I have a couple of questions and I'm quite new to mapping.

First question: Why does my door have little spikes coming off of it?
http://tinypic.com/r/348k2ue/7

What I want:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/im ... mpl_13.png

Bam!. Such a useful tool google is.

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