Got to be possible. I think the simplest way is:

alpha blending for one mesh and then raising the terrain where you want it to be seen on the 3rd mesh. We'll call it height blending. lol.

Of course you could do alpha blending on all the meshes. It just might get kinds difficult to keep track of.

You all were talking about road beds. Say you want snow grass and the road bed dirt etc. You could blend the road bed with the base. Don't know I will have to try it out. Working on a couple of bridges then I will try the road bed blend. I am off today and naturally the weather sucks. lol

When creating terrain and the player will not touch it, make it non-coliding, this saves memory and compile time. Make any brush the player will not touch, non-coliding.

Good call. Will this also work with brushes'? Or is that option available for brushes? Can't check it right now so don't know.

For those patches that are way out in BFE where the player will never be able to reach. Making those patches/brushes "Non-Colliding" will save in collision data(stored in the bsp) and memory.

rEdrUmMDK writes...[QUOTE

Warning: entity 0 brush 31: tris with 2+ major axes; bad lighting likely



Ive got big terrain, when i tweaked it a bit to put in more hills i got loads of these types of errors. Now map wont compile - it wont do the bsp part. After hours of fiddling i still get these errors. Somr test maps will compile with the error, some wont. Anyone got any ideas?

regards Bruno

Did I write that. lol I will have to check into it this evening.

yup! did you ever fix it?

Okay, I've been reading through forums and tutorials and learning mapping skills for a couple of months now and I have a basic question:

Why use patch mesh instead of regular brushes for terrain that is going to remain flat? Is there a benefit? To who? Is there a general rule when to use either or should you never use brushes for flat terrain?

i would always use a bit of patch 'cos no real landscape has perfectly flat bits. I made a sort of park with a very very slight undulation in the almost flat ground and it looks heaps better. Dont know about any performance issudes though

bruno