I don't know how the pros in here are handling this, but for the moment i keep my skybox completely open over the map itself, and close it right behind the surrounding walls of the map. I hope you see what i mean:
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I have never been sure about that, if you look at valves maps they block off all edges quite aggressively, that leads me to believe nades will go through skybox texture.
Quote from Vilham[...] that leads me to believe nades will go through skybox texture.
Nah, blocking off nades. If you look at Dust 2, you can't throw nades from double doors long to short.
I keep my skybox open as I block out and test, but I then start bringing it in tight.
Like you I don't want nades to be restricted, but I'm finding it hard to work out which angles are overpowered (like dust2 long/short) and are worth covering.
Don't they also block geometry? As my map is on a hill, you can look up as T and see the stupas as a landmark to travel towards. A skybox would block that no? Unless I stuck them in the 3d skybox I suppose... But then they aren't THAT high either.
meltdown.exe
Quote from Vayayeah they block geometry. I have a building you can see from the majority of the map (needs to be a world brush as the windows are breakable.) Nodraw -also usable as a seal- doesn't block geometry but seems to cause weird visual flickering at times.
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Paint mockup of before and after of what i'm going to need to do. I don't think it'll cause too many issues with numportals as long as I keep the new area created as simple geometrically as possible and put hint/skip where the skybox brush used to be.
Finished this and compiled
before
681 numportals
after (finished greybox of my remake of the map at the start of the thread)
768 numportals.
Totally worth it.
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