Clipbrushing
Kouji_San
Sr. Hινε UÏкεεÏεг - EUPT DeputyThe Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
Sr. Hινε UÏкεεÏεг - EUPT DeputyThe Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
<div class="IPBDescription">Some bugs</div>After testing a bit of the brushwork in the clipbrush group CollisionGeometry, I found a few bugs with it. And though it might feel more at home on the Mapping forums
<ul><li>Fade blink can't go trough it, meaning you can't blink behind a fence onto a catwalk, instead you blink ontop of the railing. But here's the more annoying thing, blinking from that catwalk down into an open area is also impossible as you also just blink on top of the railing. Slows you down as a Fade significantly as you are only presented 2 options:
- Bllink on the railing followed by another blink down into the open area, wasting energy
- Jumping on the railing and then blinking, slowing you down</li><li>Lerk spikes can be shot trough the clipbrushing without any problem, but the zoomed in sniper spikes can't be shot trough the clipbrush</li><li>Skulk Parasite and the Gorge spit can't shoot trough it, it seems projectile based weapons are hindered in their movement. <strike>I haven't tested grenades or the Flamer yet,because my map is just a Marinestart atm</strike>. And I don't know if there are any console commands to cheat those in...
The flamer passes trough the clipbrushing as does the damage
the Grenadelauncher is prevented from passing trough the clipbrush, but the splash or area damage effect does go trough
</li><li>Hyrdra's and probably sentries and Whips can't see me trough the clipbrushing
<b>Some other targeting issues, not related to clipbrushing</b>
<ul><li>It also seems they can't see me if I'm below them (a level lower), But actually right next to them.</li><li>The sentry stops shooting when you are right in front of it (up close and personal so to speak :D ) and the animation turning circle is bigger then the detection circle. I've tested it by standing next to one as a skulk and the sentry does aim at you, but doesn't detect you and happily keeps cycling trough it's searchmode animation.</li></ul></li></ul>
I've seen the Skulk wallwalk animation being completely weird on the fences of catwalks, so this is where I've put some of the CollisionGeometry faces. But this produces the bugs I've mentioned
<ul><li>Fade blink can't go trough it, meaning you can't blink behind a fence onto a catwalk, instead you blink ontop of the railing. But here's the more annoying thing, blinking from that catwalk down into an open area is also impossible as you also just blink on top of the railing. Slows you down as a Fade significantly as you are only presented 2 options:
- Bllink on the railing followed by another blink down into the open area, wasting energy
- Jumping on the railing and then blinking, slowing you down</li><li>Lerk spikes can be shot trough the clipbrushing without any problem, but the zoomed in sniper spikes can't be shot trough the clipbrush</li><li>Skulk Parasite and the Gorge spit can't shoot trough it, it seems projectile based weapons are hindered in their movement. <strike>I haven't tested grenades or the Flamer yet,because my map is just a Marinestart atm</strike>. And I don't know if there are any console commands to cheat those in...
The flamer passes trough the clipbrushing as does the damage
the Grenadelauncher is prevented from passing trough the clipbrush, but the splash or area damage effect does go trough
</li><li>Hyrdra's and probably sentries and Whips can't see me trough the clipbrushing
<b>Some other targeting issues, not related to clipbrushing</b>
<ul><li>It also seems they can't see me if I'm below them (a level lower), But actually right next to them.</li><li>The sentry stops shooting when you are right in front of it (up close and personal so to speak :D ) and the animation turning circle is bigger then the detection circle. I've tested it by standing next to one as a skulk and the sentry does aim at you, but doesn't detect you and happily keeps cycling trough it's searchmode animation.</li></ul></li></ul>
I've seen the Skulk wallwalk animation being completely weird on the fences of catwalks, so this is where I've put some of the CollisionGeometry faces. But this produces the bugs I've mentioned
Comments
Not sure if your read the latest edit :P
I've added a bit more also none clipbrushing related
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think giveweapon flamethrower ??? or give or just flamethrower - try those.
give >insert weapon here<
flamer goes trough them, not sure if it is the areadamage or something though...
Lol it seems you can do this to anything.
give marine (spawns a none AI bot it seems)
give flamethrower
give grenadelauncher
give fade (also spawns a none AI bot, when you are on the alien or marine team and use this it spawns a none AI bot teammate called NsPlayer(#), if you keep changing teams, they won't all show up on the scoreboard, weird ghost bots :P)
give cookies! <- my favorite