Tool keeps giving me this warning. i've tried attaching them to frame as their own object...just tried reattaching and still get the warning. i've looked everywhere and not found an explanation of this error. i'm using the +exactportal material.

Exact portals can't be outside the BSP, unless your mixing up +portal and +exactportal.
+portal does not need to be attached to the BSP.
+exactportal does.

do the planes of the exact portal need to intersect planes of the bsp or have vertices inside the geometry? almost everything i've read elsewhere contradicts the HEK tut, which is what i followed the first time, so trash that...there aren't any good tuts on exact portals and all the portalling tuts i've found refer to sound, fog, or water volumes.

i might just leave them out until i can make sure there aren't any issues with rendering but i know from the geometry of the map that it makes more sense to put them in than not to. is there any chance that portaling influences the way sapien runs radiosity?...i've been getting that out of memory error.

the HEK tutorial on portals works perfectly.