Where Is Clip Brush?

Rictus_GrinRictus_Grin Join Date: 2002-11-28 Member: 10130Members
in Mapping Forum
<div class="IPBDescription">Please don't laugh at me.</div> Um...what do you guys use for a clip brush? I tried to use the null brush but it just makes it so you can see through the walls. Do you use the half-life wad or something? I'm only using ns wad until I make some of my own textures and I can't find a clip brush to keep people from getting stuck on edges and things like that. Any help will be appreciated. Just don't hurt me if its obvious.
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  • OlljOllj our themepark-stalking nightmare Fade Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10696Members
    edited December 2002
    Welcome to the Q1 3D Engine were the Texture of an Object sets its behaviour (sound, water, effects ...), too.

    <b>A Clip-brush is just any Object with the Texture named "CLIP"</b>
    Ingame it becomes an invisible Wall (aliens cant climb along).
    Clip brushes are important for places of your map you can stuck in...

    Other very special textures are:
    AAATRIGGER, best used for trigger fields because its invisible and you can walk throught.
    ORIGIN , necessary for all rotateable objects, to set a rotating axix, invisible and walk throught.
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  • Rictus_GrinRictus_Grin Join Date: 2002-11-28 Member: 10130Members
    edited December 2002
    Hey thanks, but what I mean is there is no clip brush in ns.wad. I notice that none of the official maps seem to use half-life.wad, so am I missing something? Maybe a clip brush is bad because aliens can't walk on it anyways.


    P.S. Also should I paint every face outside my map and inbetween brushes with the null brush? To help keep r_speeds down.
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  • TomCerulTomCerul Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9614Members
    Rictus,
    Are you asking about the CLIP texture? I don't have it in ns.wad either.

    *shrug*

    I haven't used it yet, but I've only mad test.bsp yesterday. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ChromeAngelChromeAngel Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Yes use the CLIP texture from the HL.WAD. Don't bother with the NULL, when you VIS the map all the external faces get dropped anyway.
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  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    If anyone is wondering, it is <b>perfectly fine</b> to use the halflife.wad (and in fact necessary for things such as CLIP, AAATRIGGER, ORIGIN, etc), just so long as the textures you use from it don't make levels look half-lifey. About 25% of Hera's textures were from Halflife, but you couldn't really tell, could you?

    The reason why the HL wad is extremely useful to use is because it contains a huge amount of 'glue' textures, generic textures, lights, etc, which can all be used in many different situations. The NS wad has extremely few of these.
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  • chubbystevechubbysteve Join Date: 2002-10-14 Member: 1496Members, Constellation
    I'd love to see some one produce a hi res set of glue textures (with light shaders of course). The half life ones are practical, but old.
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  • Rictus_GrinRictus_Grin Join Date: 2002-11-28 Member: 10130Members
    Thanks a million guys!!! I'll add the HL.wad.
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