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Nebulon
Joined: Jan 6, 2008

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Posted: Sep 13, 2009 08:51 PM    Msg. 1 of 4       
can someone give me a list of what symbols do what for marking geometry when making custom models?

to start off:

# =marker


Nebulon
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Posted: Sep 14, 2009 08:38 AM    Msg. 2 of 4       
yes! thanks

i tried to do a fog plane using the +unused$ material name, but got this error message:

09.14.09 09:30:20 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
09.14.09 09:30:20 reference function: _write_to_error_file
09.14.09 09:30:20 reference address: 42ca20
09.14.09 09:30:20 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
09.14.09 09:30:56 EAX: 0xFFFFFFFE
09.14.09 09:30:56 EBX: 0x00000001
09.14.09 09:30:56 ECX: 0x0012F230
09.14.09 09:30:56 EDX: 0x000002CC
09.14.09 09:30:56 EDI: 0x0012F230
09.14.09 09:30:56 ESI: 0x00000000
09.14.09 09:30:56 EBP: 0x0012F108
09.14.09 09:30:56 ESP: 0x0012F0F8
09.14.09 09:30:56 EIP: 0x77A79A94, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
09.14.09 09:30:56 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\tag_files\tag_groups.c,#3157: #32 is not a valid structure_bsp_fog_plane_block index in [#0,#32)

what do i neeed to do to fix this? do i need to make an actual material or something for it?
Edited by Nebulon on Sep 14, 2009 at 10:36 AM


sleepy1212
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Posted: Sep 14, 2009 11:03 AM    Msg. 3 of 4       
make sure all the tris from your fog plane geometry are at least partially inside the bsp. none of them can be outside or you'll get this error.


Nebulon
Joined: Jan 6, 2008

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Posted: Sep 14, 2009 02:43 PM    Msg. 4 of 4       
i had it mostly inside and it still didnt work (this is for lava btw). i tried to set it up as a "water" area and it still didnt work. the material name i used for it was lava_area!$. here is the new error message:


09.14.09 13:39:15 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
09.14.09 13:39:15 reference function: _write_to_error_file
09.14.09 13:39:15 reference address: 42ca20
09.14.09 13:39:15 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
09.14.09 13:39:30 some shaders were of inappropriate types.

 

 
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