Posted by TA_JebFalcona on July 13, 1998 at 22:18:07:
In Reply to: Re: Outdoor terrain posted by GMS_Slug on July 13, 1998 at 21:22:45:
Ouch, vertices. The word brings shudders through my spine. Many a good thing did I ruin with these worthless things! Slug is right, you need to cleave the SECTORS, not the faces, and do not merge any that will make it non-convex. Somewhere someone explained really well how cleaving and deleting works (ie. you get a mass of solid space not empty space when you start, and you cut things out to make the level. And you can't have sectors withing sectors cause it would be nothing in nothing, and when you delete something you get a solid thing and all that. I think I gathered all that from reading all the tutorials, especially the ramps and stairs and building outdoors ones) Also rember that when cleaving sectors it goes straigt back...so altering the angles of the veiw will change the results of the cleave.
: you have to cleave sectors and delete the sectors that represent the solid ground.. I imagine you were surface cleaving and pulling surfaces and vertices upwards into the sector?