Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · November 17, 2011, 5:01 pm

In my map i have a diversity vent including some prop_statics with the models:

vactube_128_straight.mdl

vactube_90deg_01.mdl

vactube_connector.mdl.

When i place a portal underneath them and then look through the other portal, while i move the cursor, the models keep flicking from being there to not being there!

How do i make it stop flicking?

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#2 · November 17, 2011, 5:22 pm

I think that's a rendering problem, like portal funneling is black with world portals, I think It has something to do with the dx level

#3 · November 17, 2011, 6:09 pm

spongylover123 wrote:

I think that's a rendering problem, like portal funneling is black with world portals, I think It has something to do with the ex level

Can I do anything?

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#4 · November 17, 2011, 6:55 pm

With your level of expertise? I doubt it.

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#5 · November 17, 2011, 7:48 pm

Try giving it an opaque skin, (If it has one.)

#6 · November 18, 2011, 4:30 am

Another Bad Pun wrote:

Try giving it an opaque skin, (If it has one.)

I'm not sure about what an "opaque" skin is. Could you explain it? It's a word i have never heard before (and i'm not english or american)

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#7 · November 18, 2011, 8:32 am

Opaque means that you can't see through it, (the opposite of a window.)

#8 · November 18, 2011, 10:56 am

Another Bad Pun wrote:

Opaque means that you can't see through it, (the opposite of a window.)

So making the tubes Opaque?

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#9 · November 18, 2011, 7:50 pm

beecake wrote:

Another Bad Pun wrote:

Opaque means that you can't see through it, (the opposite of a window.)

So making the tubes Opaque?

Yes; There should be a skin that does this.

#10 · November 18, 2011, 8:41 pm

Yeah, there is a glass pipe skin and a metal pipe skin.

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