Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · April 18, 2009, 9:22 am

Hello. I'm trying to add water to my map and it has weird lines around the edge's of it. How can I fix this? I know that water maybe should not be used in portal, but I would like to use it here anyway. Also, how can you stop people shooting portals into the water with out changing the texture?

Here's a picture of the lines problem:

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#2 · April 18, 2009, 9:46 am

Solomon wrote:

Also, how can you stop people shooting portals into the water with out changing the texture?

make a thin brush textured by the invisible texture and tie it to a func_noportal_volume - cover every place where you don't want portals to be created by these thin brushes.

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#3 · April 18, 2009, 9:47 am

Mek wrote:

make a thin brush textured by the invisible texture and tie it to a func_noportal_volume - cover every place where you don't want portals to be created by these thin brushes.

I think I understand. Thank you.

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#4 · April 18, 2009, 10:43 am

Mek wrote:

make a thin brush textured by the invisible texture and tie it to a func_noportal_volume - cover every place where you don't want portals to be created by these thin brushes.

I think I understand. Thank you.

EDIT: I pressed backspace and it reposted this. I'm sorry!

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#5 · April 18, 2009, 11:05 am

You can get rid of the lines on the edge of the water plane by adding a (thin) border around the water and making that a func_detail. (The edges of the water surface will be hidden inside in the border.)

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#6 · April 18, 2009, 11:06 am

Thanks!

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