schleicher on 6/12/2015 at 07:39
Hi
Till what size of Brushes one will not run into troubles for sure? What size I should better not exceed?
Is there in this regard a difference between Brush-Types ? (Solid, Air, Water, Flow and Room)
Unna Oertdottir on 6/12/2015 at 08:18
Quote Posted by schleicher
Hi
Till what size of Brushes one will not run into troubles for sure? What size I should better not exceed?
More than 2000 x 2000 DU is pretty much troublesome (terrain brushes). Objects can be bigger.
nicked on 6/12/2015 at 08:29
Depends on the size and scale of the texture. A sky-textured cube of 2000 would probably be fine (though you'd probably want to grid-snap it to 2048), but a brush that size with proper texturing probably won't portalise.
LarryG on 6/12/2015 at 14:29
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Till what size of Brushes one will not run into troubles for sure?
Sorry, improper or careless building practices trumps brush size. Look for the LGS building practices document in the tutorials section of this forum.
schleicher on 6/12/2015 at 18:07
Thanks for the answers.
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Sorry, improper or careless building practices trumps brush size. Look for the LGS building practices document in the tutorials section of this forum.
Proper building etc. is less important for my question. I was in doubt, whether there are technical reasons to be aware of max. sizes. I can't remeber where I've read this: But in a tutorial there was mentioned, not to exceed 100 for a brush-side. My main-reason for asking are room-brushes and water: 1. water: If I want to have a big water surface without any seam, it would be good, not to be limited of brush-sizes. 2. If I want to cover a big area with a room-brush to have sound, this brush could be in some cases very big. But as I understood the answers here, I will never reach that limit :-)
schleicher on 6/12/2015 at 18:14
Sorry for that chaotic text above. But the editor fails. I tried all things (html on/off etc.) But the EOLs are messed up.
Not sure whether my browser has a problem or the editor here. This happens the first time
LarryG on 6/12/2015 at 18:50
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... in a tutorial there was mentioned, not to exceed 100 for a brush-side.
If it said that, there might have been a reason, say line of sight issues cropping up, but I would take that idea with a grain of salt, and not pay too much attention.
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My main-reason for asking are room-brushes and water: 1. water: If I want to have a big water surface without any seam, it would be good, not to be limited of brush-sizes. 2. If I want to cover a big area with a room-brush to have sound, this brush could be in some cases very big. But as I understood the answers here, I will never reach that limit :-)
1. Water. I don't believe that you will get seams unless you change the flow direction. I've used flood brushes which are longer than 100 units with no issues. It is the flow brush which created the visible seams where the flow changes direction. It has to do that. If you want to keep the direction, but change the speed of the flow, say at a narrowing, I don't think you will get a seam (maybe you will ... I don't remember that you do, though)
2. Rooms. I believe you will not get proper attenuation of sound over distance with a single giant room brush. IIRC I had sounds not attenuating in areas with single large room brushes. Breaking them into multiple, smaller room brushes fixed those issues.
schleicher on 6/12/2015 at 19:44
Thank you. The reason for that question is the "Room brushes with portal centers
outside..."-message.
This happened: All worked fine, till I placed an solid-brush apr.
half in one and half in another room-brush. Then that message appeared.
Though in another thread here I learned, this message can often be
ignored, I prefer to compile the mission without any complaints
of the system.
Unfortunately this is a complicated structure there. It is not easy, to
divide it in more room-brushes at this location. And because of your
explanation I will not use a big room-brush that covers the whole area.
But I will understand it as a training and hope, not to disturb my neighborhood
with cursing ;-)
