I’m having a few problems with my water related brush entities; namely the func_precipitation and the plain old water brush.
Func_precipitation works fine, except at any height above 128u. I’m in the street, it’s raining; I go up some uncovered stairs, it suddenly stops.
The next one is simple water. Never had a problem with water before, unless the map has leaked, and mine most certainly has not. When in game, the water affects movement through it and even creates the splash effect when you shoot at it, but there is no visible water. I checked the compile log and the only parts that stood out are here:
It says my water doesn’t have a surface… I don’t see why, as the texture used is the same one valve used in the Hard Rain campaign.
I’m having a few problems with my water related brush entities; namely the func_precipitation and the plain old water brush.
Func_precipitation works fine, except at any height above 128u. I’m in the street, it’s raining; I go up some uncovered stairs, it suddenly stops.
The next one is simple water. Never had a problem with water before, unless the map has leaked, and mine most certainly has not. When in game, the water affects movement through it and even creates the splash effect when you shoot at it, but there is no visible water. I checked the compile log and the only parts that stood out are here:
It says my water doesn’t have a surface… I don’t see why, as the texture used is the same one valve used in the Hard Rain campaign.
About the water issue, you got any area portals that are touching the top of the water or are leaking?
Also post the whole compile log.
I haven’t set up any area portals yet. From the Valve Developer Wiki, I read that a func_precipitation can cause errors when passing through water volumes, but valve placed their’s the same way I am.
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Running command: cd "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\bin"
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Running command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\bin\vbsp
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C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc\m3_defe
nse.vmf"
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Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Apr 21 2010)
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materialPath: c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\m
aterials
Loading C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc
\m3_defense.vmf
Patching WVT material: maps/m3_defense/nature/blend_milltowngrass01wet_wvt_patch
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
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Find Visible Detail Sides...
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Merging details...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
WATER LEAF WITHOUT SURFACE! mins: 1024 0 -128 maxs: 1536 512 -8
done (0)
writing C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc
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Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
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Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (253574 bytes)
Cannot build Physics2 data
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Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Water found with no water_lod_control entity, creating a default one.
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 267 texinfos to 214
Reduced 52 texdatas to 46 (1402 bytes to 1107)
Writing C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc
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Running command: cd "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\bin"
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Running command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\bin\vvis
.exe" -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2" "
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc\m3_defe
nse"
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Valve Software - vvis.exe (Apr 21 2010)
2 threads
reading c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc
\m3_defense.bsp
max farz in all env_fog_controller entities: -1.000000 (used for radial vis)
reading c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc
\m3_defense.prt
240 portalclusters
780 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (34)
Optimized: 159 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 48119
Average clusters visible: 200
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 240
visdatasize:16379 compressed from 15360
writing c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc
\m3_defense.bsp
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Running command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\bin\vrad
.exe" -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2"
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc\m3_def
ense"
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Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (Apr 21 2010)
Valve Radiosity Simulator
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[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[2 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']
Loading c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\sdk_content\mapsrc
\m3_defense.bsp
Setting up ray-trace acceleration structure... Done (2.66 seconds)
2230 faces
620232 square feet [89313488.00 square inches]
46 Displacements
8035 Square Feet [1157133.38 Square Inches]
2230 patches before subdivision
25330 patches after subdivision
sun extent from map=0.000000
3 direct lights
BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (11)
BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (21)
transfers 2661168, max 699
transfer lists: 20.3 megs
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Bounce #1 added RGB(1174, 1178, 900)
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Edit:
It looks so much better in real-time.
Try making the rain brush really tall. I remember looking at L4D1’s No Mercy and seeing that the rain brush was an extra 600-700 units above the player-rooftops.
Rather odd that Valve would make a rain-effect-brush that only affects the bottom half, but I suppose it makes sense, seeing how valve likes to make uber-high sky boxes and I like to make short ones (512u off of the highest point a player can reach). I’ll try that, it should solve the problem. Thanks.
Probably has something to do with the tracers that make the rain and the particle effect.
