What causes walls like this?

[Kiyoshi]

I have no idea what makes the wall appear like this. It has no smoothing and when i turn it on it does nothing. The points are on the exact same spot on the axis so it should be completely flat. I have several things like this in my level and it has me stumped. Plz help.

[P13F4C3]

This could be caused if you ran lightmaps low it can sometimes also cause black triangles to appear try running lightmaps a bit higher. Does it look flat in 3ds max?

[Kiyoshi]

The lightmaps were set on high in the pic and ive had things like this happen when working on halo 1 maps. The triangles show up flat in 3ds.

[P13F4C3]

In 3ds max make a render of the face, it should show if the triangle doesn't look nice it may look like it does in game, If it does then put a smoothing group on it and do another render that may fix the problem

[et_cg]

You didn't use a polygon to model that.

Correctly, you would use four points:

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Incorrectly, you would use three:

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Many lighting errors are caused by creating triangles and grouping them together in a way that both 3ds max and h2 display them crappily.

Polygonal modeling can achieve a much nicer, smoother, surface.

[Kiyoshi]

Ok it shows up with no problems in 3ds and those jacked up triangles are both polys right next to each other.

[et_cg]

Do a render in 3ds max from different angles, you can do spotlights too.

Uhm, ahh okay.

From the picture it looks like two triangles... Not a surface that was made to be two triangles together.

[Skyline]

Check if there are any errors that are shown by sapien. As in it tells you the error and highlights it in a colour.

[Aerowyn]

Actually, make sure your verts are welded, and apply a single smoothing group to that entire wall.

[et_cg]

Actually, make sure your verts are welded, and apply a single smoothing group to that entire wall.

Dude, that's awesome that a girl is into this stuff... I really wish more were into this world. We'd sure see a lot of crazy cool creations.