This is the first time I've mapped with Radiant, although I've done some fun stuff with UTed and other editors. I've been trying to tag a brush to be visible/noncolliable so I assumed this would be a detail brush. But when I make a detail brush in the game, I still collide with it. So, other than tag it in the editor (control + m) do I need to put a special shader on it? Does the detail brush in fact make something visible/noncolliable? I'm doing a lot of detail work (lights and pipes, etc) out of reach of the player and everything doesn't need to be colliable with the player or NPC's.

Thanks

k

Detail brushes behave exactly the same as a structural brush except for the fact that they do not block visibility. Making all small objects such as pipes, supports, lights, stairs, gratings, ect. detail brushes will speed up your vis calculation greatly. Only one pain with detail brushes is that you have to apply the _caulk texture to any unseen faces or else they will still be drawn in game ( even if you can't see them ). Be careful when doing this though, because if you are ever able to see the _caulk texture in game, it will create HOM ( Hall of Mirrors, a weird 'smearing' effect ). Sense these lights and pipes are high up, you probably could put the caulk texture on the tops of them and not worry about them being seen. ( It reduces polycount, which is a good thing )

I would not worry about having the pipes and lights having collision. If you insist though, you would have to make a new shader for every texture you plan on using on the lights and give it the no collision property.

also some textures are non solid, u might bebale to find one of these that would suit

and a tut for detail brushes (different game but it does not really mattter)

http://www.nibsworld.com/rtcw....1.shtml

You can just make a non solid version of the texture you are using to cover the objects in question.

Here is a shader example for you to use:
(edit it to taste)


textures/fordtest/ASPHALT_trans
{

      qer_editorimage textures/Fordtest/ASPHALT_trans.tga
      surfaceparm nonsolid
   {
       map $lightmap
       rgbGen identity
       tcGen lightmap
   }
   {
       map textures/fordtest/asphalt_trans
       blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
       rgbGen identity
   }
}


You will need to change the texture folder names and the texture names but the rest is set to go for you