how the fuck do portals work???

akmassassin · Post by **akmassassin** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:59 am

ok my map is goin to be finished in the next days, its 3 months of work. i already got my map in sapien and in halo. my problem is that i got some errors with my portals. i dont know how these work and in the hek tutorial they dont explain how they work.... so i got some portals passing trough my base exactportals but in the game wen i go to the place were its intersecting, i cant see the other side of the portal i am in. so do i need to make the portals seperate (they dont pass trough themselves) or is it ok to let them like that? plz i need help i cant understand how these stupid portals work

and heres the error i get for my portals

D:\Games\halo ce>tool structure levels\autumn_slay autumn_slay
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
building intermediate geometry...
building collision geometry...
reducing collision geometry...
building collision bsp...
### ERROR found z buffered triangles (red).
### WARNING found nearly coplanar surfaces (red and green).
reducing collision bsp...
verifying collision geometry...
verifying collision bsp...
building portals...
EAX: 0x00000055
EBX: 0x0BDD0101
ECX: 0x0012F2C8
EDX: 0x00000000
EDI: 0x0012F2C8
ESI: 0x00000000
EBP: 0x0012F5A0
ESP: 0x0012F194
EIP: 0x7FFE0304, C3 9C 81 0C ?????
EXCEPTION halt in .\import_structures\build_portals.c,#616: plane_index!=bsp->planes.count

D:\Games\halo ce>

akmassassin · Post by **akmassassin** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:41 pm

fuck is there anyone here that will help me????#$%%? dont just look at the thread plz help me

Superfly · Post by **Superfly** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:36 am

I get the same error.

ThabounceR · Post by **ThabounceR** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:08 am

no mac these are lag portals and you need to add those in 3dsmax but don;t ask me how i got the same frikin error

winsheild237 · Post by **winsheild237** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:03 pm

try making the portals in sapien

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:10 pm

wrong portals shawn. Heres what i would do go file merge and open your tutorial level and select the the terrain portals or whatever they are called and just scale those one to you see fit. then take the ones for the bases as well.

theenjoisk8r · Post by **theenjoisk8r** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:06 pm

you go in one and come out another lol

KiLLa_187 · Post by **KiLLa_187** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:49 am

Tyson101 wrote:wrong portals shawn. Heres what i would do go file merge and open your tutorial level and select the the terrain portals or whatever they are called and just scale those one to you see fit. then take the ones for the bases as well.

Umm no that will never do U should really search for Xyyz's tutorial on gbx it helped me alot

FReAK · Post by **FReAK** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:50 pm

hang on when u say portals do u mean like teleporters or the other kind of portals?

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:08 pm

These are 'the other kind of portals'. The non-teleporting kind. What these do is stop the game from rendering things outside each portal. Or it lowers the LOD, I forget.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to do those right. I'd say do it like the tutorial map, just make a simple grid style one.

Jakel · Post by **Jakel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:35 am

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FReAK · Post by **FReAK** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:36 am

mkay.... what did al that mean?