The tool itself is recognized as (to steal from another on this board) "evil". The best recommendation is to stay away from it.

There are others who might reply "but I use it and never have a problem", but it does cause huge headaches for a lot of folks. Think of it as driving a car without seatbelts. Sure, you can do it but you're better off taking the extra time to avoid a possible, um, headache...

The overlapping brushes on a skybox will not cause problems, but it's not the best practice either.

If you load a test map and play with CSG hollow you can get radiant to crash by playing with the function (but you need to be really bored on a cold winter day to be entertained that way).

ok, is the red line (pointfile) only there to show leaks?

Now when I do a quick compile to test, it does not do the

******************
* LEAKED
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or whatever is says when there is a leak.

Does the red line imply something other than a leak?

Make sure you extend the bottom brush of your skybox to the outer edge of the side brush. In your last image, it looks like the bottom is only to the inside of the side brush. If you haven't already added a global_intermmission, you should probably do that to. Your duplicate plane errors are probably caused by using "v" to create mitres. Redo all your mitres, inluding your skybox, using "e" instead. This will probably fix most, if not all of your duplicate planes.

edited on Jun. 25, 2006 06:53 pm by Tridon