Is using the Boolean effect/modifier/thing the right way to go when creating fog planes?

-Because I know from experience that just creating a plane that goes through the entire structure/island/thing will create a tonne of issues.



-Or... is there another way to deal with fog planes with an insane amount of triangles to deal with... :o

unless you are exact portaling a fog plane you do not need to cut anything into anything. Fog planes that are for the whole map that tell the game to render fog at a certain height and under are to be made as a separate object and also attached to the frame. If you see from the online tutorials they have a specific material they must be labeled as well. But anyway, if you are doing it this way with a fog plane defining fog for the whole map, just make it a flat plane that extends the whole map. 2 triangles only, and label it properly.

the fog plane is half-way down a cliff face.



I get errors doing that though... bro.

you need to use the modifire that allows errors!
& your plane needs o be alot bigger check your draw distances!
Edited by jackrabbit on Oct 27, 2013 at 03:53 AM

Modifire?

These are tool "orange" errors.

Oh, there's 2.

But obviously the overlapping edges one.

it does not matter just name it

water!#$%

errors go away =)
Edited by jackrabbit on Oct 27, 2013 at 04:58 AM

"Couldn't allocate subclusters"

-Tool

remake the plane try again.

add a uvw map to it just like anything else. that will affect the water riples along with the shader.

set your meterial id

no smoothing groups

make sure refine ends is checked in edit geomitry.

Edited by jackrabbit on Oct 27, 2013 at 05:03 AM

:(


Be back in another 2 hours.

why 2 hr's?

sounds like you are doing somehing extra to it that you dont have to

draw out a plane should take like 5 seconds lol

Exporting = 2 hours.

his level is not optimized and he has a whole lot of unneeded verts.

3ds Max 8 = a few seconds

fuunyest thread title ever!

Boolean and the fog plane - the musical
I lol!

Chimp = fake open edges.
I spend my first year and a half of mapping (before I joined this community) modeling levels correctly but thinking I wasn't, due to chimp's pretend open edge errors.

Bluestreak is the way to go with Gmax.

I did the material as "fog!$", got it in-game - but oddly, though the fog is beneath the plane, I get this "fog" shader capping the fog. :\

I assume you use 3DS max?

This is what I have kinda figured out so far...

Chimp + Gmax = 3 edges that will ALWAYS be open, stretched across the map.
Bluesstreak + Gmax = long export time, but no errors.
Blitz + Gmax = no go! bro.

Chimp + 3DSMax = dunno.
Blue streak + 3DSMax = errors of some sort.
Blitz + 3DSMax = great!

And thanks. :)

no i think you can set the level of the fog with gurialla open the bsp tag

The fog is fine, but the plane is not, can I do this without another export?

Change the shader to clouds or something?

Anyone got tile-able cloud shaders?