Locating clusters in 3ds max?

[FireScythe]

It doesn't look like you have put any thought into your portals. Heres posterity's portals as an example:

[Ki11a_FTW]

Hey thanks! ill try your concept

[p0lar_bear]

I meant a render without the portals... you should delete them by the way.

[Ki11a_FTW]

i dont want to show the map yet :-(

[teh lag]

i dont want to show the map yet :-(

Then we can't easily help you. There might be something that could stand out in a pic that you might not see or be able to descirbe correctly which could aid us in fixing your problem.

[Ki11a_FTW]

agh stupid edit didnt show up again..

i said that if FireSythes concept didnt work then i would post a pic

EDIT: Still not working, its always the same clusters though, that i cannot find, (orange= Portal Purpule= PlayerClip)
Some faces are flipped for the portals and they are 1 sided

[p0lar_bear]

I still can't make anything out of it.

Just post a top-down view of the level without any invisible/special geometry whatsoever; portals, lighting planes, playerclips, etc. Even if you want to surprise us with it, if you don't ever get it working, we'll never see it anyway.

[Ki11a_FTW]

ok, i got rid of some portals, but the rest are part of the mesh, and it would take a while to delete them



I did the best i could ;-/

[Rob Oplawar]

Not on the subject of the portals, but I noticed it said you had 1900 renderable materials... apparently you fixed that, but I'm just curious. How the hell did you end up with so many materials?

But yes, I hate portals. My suggestion is to make a couple of throwaway maps and play with portaling them, to get a feel for it, because it's definitely an acquired skill. Maybe look at a couple of existing maps in Sapien with "Show Portals" on, so you can see how others have done it... don't know if you can do that in H2V, but I know you can in HCE.

[Ki11a_FTW]

arent they aloud to be bent?