Clouds like Smoke in a map

[Chucki]

Hey guys,

I have a question and I don't even think, that it's possible, but maybe someone can help me.

I want to make some clouds like smoke in a big area. For example a big mountain and in the middle there are the clouds. Below this clouds there is some grass or something like this and above there is some snow. Like a "seperating wall".

Is there any possibility to make it? Would be very nice, if someone can answer.


Best Regards, Chucki.

[Chef-Killer]

Hmm...do you really need it for your map? Should it be for the gameplay or just a visuell effect? If second, I would avoid it.

Fog, smoke (not for big areas), sky with clouds etc. isn't a big problem. Maybe it's possible to make a cloud model or a cloud texture with specific settings, but that would be a very bad solution in my opinion.

[Chucki]

It's just for visuell effect, so you don't see the things above this brush/texture, but you can jump through it.

[Chef-Killer]

You can use a sky texture, delete the flags light, sky and the Value and add the flags mist and nodraw (nodraw only for 7 faces, one should be visible). Maybe you need to scale up the texture, too.

But this would be a bad mapped and bad looking solution in my opinion. An other structure of your map would be much better than doing it this way.

[Chucki]

Ok. I try to do it the first way, if it looks bad how you say, I make an other structure. But thanks for your help.

[Chucki]

Sorry for double post, but I have two more questions.

First question: Is there any possibility to make a ball in BSP? Any function or something like that?

and the second question: Is there any function to make a stone like this in the picture? I saw this stone on different maps and don't know how to make it.

Best Regards, Chucki.

[Chef-Killer]

1. You can use the toolbar to make a "ball" (not pong). Make a brush, choose sphere from the listbox, click make, set the keys you want to have and click ok. But () it doesn't work well. Most of the time the "ball" is horrible. I would prefer not to use this function. It's also possible to make nice maps with a more easy brushwork.

2. Make a brush and carve it with the help of clippers. The clippers are a little bit hard to understand the first time. But if you know them, they're very helpful. Here in the last part you can find a very short explanation in german
http://www.otb-server.de/wbblite/thread.php?threadid=2021&sid=

[Chucki]

Thanks for the quick answer.

To 1.: I try to make it this way, i only want to make a stone, too. Then it's not so difficult if there are some untrue corners.

To 2.: I hope I can create it. I look in your tutorial, maybe it helps.