Problem with Gel
36 Posts
Posted May 10, 2011
I just downloaded the Portal 2 Authoring Tools, and ran into a problem getting an info_paint_sprayer to work. The gel appears to work correctly, except that it won't stick to any surface. The gel simply disappears upon hitting a surface and does not coat it in paint. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong: I even tried copying an info_paint_sprayer from an example map on the wiki (which did compile and work correctly), but in my map it doesn't work. What's going on here? What am I missing?
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584 Posts
Posted May 10, 2011
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Did you make sure that "paint in map" is set to "yes" in the map properties?
36 Posts
Posted May 11, 2011
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That was the problem. I didn't even realize such a property existed. Thanks!
584 Posts
Posted May 11, 2011
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Don't forget to turn that off when you have a map without paint! Otherwise you're going to unnecessarily load the paint shader.
1 Posts
Posted May 22, 2011
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I have the same problem but changing the map settings didn't help. any suggestions?
1,180 Posts
Posted May 22, 2011
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Does the gel work, just not show up? If so, just add lights to your map.
12 Posts
Posted May 23, 2011
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I have the same problem. It works like it should, but I cant see it... so I am trying to add some light into the map. I have heard that I need to set mat_fullbright 0 to see it work... but I cant set mat_fullbright 0 ... it doesn?t change. Its like the config file is read only or some... 
Any idea why mat_fullbright is stuck in 1?
Any idea why mat_fullbright is stuck in 1?
236 Posts
Posted May 23, 2011
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Did you turn on sv_cheats 1?
12 Posts
Posted May 23, 2011
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The Irate Pirate wrote:
Did you turn on sv_cheats 1?
sv_cheats is now 1. It still does not work.
1,180 Posts
Posted May 23, 2011
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Pesinn wrote:
Any idea why mat_fullbright is stuck in 1?
Do you have lights in your map?
12 Posts
Posted May 24, 2011
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Yes I have a light in the map. Still doesn't work.
4,136 Posts
Posted May 24, 2011
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If you have gel in the map, and you have a light in the map (and mat_fullbright is set to 0) then gel should work.
Post your compile log.
12 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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I just took all the text in the log file (I think that is what you are asking for, but let me know if I am misunderstanding 
Here is the compile log:
materialPath: c:\program files (x86)\valve\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\materials
Loading c:\program files (x86)\valve\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\maps\closed_map.vmf
ConVarRef gpu_level doesn't point to an existing ConVar
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10**** leaked ****
Entity weapon_portalgun (466.00 -176.00 1064.00) leaked!
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1024.0 4608.0 728.0)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (2048.0 4608.0 728.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1536.0 5120.0 728.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1024.0 3584.0 -8.0)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1024.0 3584.0 752.0)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (2048.0 3584.0 728.0)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1188.0 2048.0 431.0)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (1700.0 2048.0 431.0)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs:
*** Suppressing further FindPortalSide errors.... ***
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
Chop Details...done (0)
Find Visible Detail Sides...
Merged 52 detail faces...done (0)
Merging details...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (93062 bytes)
Error! To use model "models/anim_wp/room_transform/armrubble_9arms02.mdl"
with prop_static, it must be compiled with $staticprop!
Error loading studio model "models/anim_wp/room_transform/armrubble_9arms02.mdl"!
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 455 texinfos to 295
Reduced 29 texdatas to 29 (826 bytes to 826)
Writing c:\program files (x86)\valve\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\maps\closed_map.bsp
1 second elapsed
2 threads
reading c:\program files (x86)\valve\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\maps\closed_map.bsp
reading c:\program files (x86)\valve\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\maps\closed_map.prt
LoadPortals: couldn't read c:\program files (x86)\valve\steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\maps\closed_map.prt
200 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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Pesinn wrote:
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10* leaked *
Entity weapon_portalgun (466.00 -176.00 1064.00) leaked!
You have a leak, which is why lights and gel don't work.
12 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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NocturnalGhost wrote:
Pesinn wrote:0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10* leaked *
Entity weapon_portalgun (466.00 -176.00 1064.00) leaked!You have a leak, which is why lights and gel don't work.
Is there any good way to find where it leaks?
200 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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Check this page: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Leak
12 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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Nice. Thx for the help
10 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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I have this problem some days ago and i found something interesting : When i worked with env_cubemap gel sticked perfectly to faces. So now when i want to enable paint on a wall i do a env_cubemap and select the face of the wall and it works perfect. I noticed too that maps without env_cubemap are fully bright and env_cubemap force maps to calculate light. I don't know if the problem come from there. But i'm pretty sure it will help some people.
4,136 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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Coldknife wrote:
I noticed too that maps without env_cubemap are fully bright and env_cubemap force maps to calculate light. I don't know if the problem come from there. But i'm pretty sure it will help some people.
This is not true at all. Lighting and cubemaps are completely separate topics. A map without lighting will be fullbright, regardless if there are cubemaps in the map or not. Likewise, a map (with or without lighting) will not have cubemaps until they are both placed and built using the "buildcubemaps" command.
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652 Posts
Posted May 25, 2011
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msleeper wrote:
Coldknife wrote:I noticed too that maps without env_cubemap are fully bright and env_cubemap force maps to calculate light. I don't know if the problem come from there. But i'm pretty sure it will help some people.
This is not true at all. Lighting and cubemaps are completely separate topics. A map without lighting will be fullbright, regardless if there are cubemaps in the map or not. Likewise, a map (with or without lighting) will not have cubemaps until they are both placed and built using the "buildcubemaps" command.
Technically, a map without any env_cubemaps DOES have cubemaps, they are just the default ones, both on fullbright and lit maps. But yes for cubemaps that make sense what msleeper said is required.