Portals hate me

**Ki11a_FTW** · July 24th, 2007 01:34 AM

Well i made like a million portals for my map but i still get the same error, even when add more and more portals

Portals are greenish blueish:

And the error:

**Unforgivable16** · July 24th, 2007 01:36 AM

lol i wish i knew that ment...but i would say to many portals! (note - i am retarded dont listen to me.)

**Ki11a_FTW** · July 24th, 2007 01:40 AM

No, that is not what it means, it means add more portals, but nothing is happening :-( when i add to much it wont compile

**Phopojijo** · July 24th, 2007 05:19 AM

Hmm, just a question... did you have to clean up all your lamina faces?

**Tweek** · July 24th, 2007 06:15 AM

i've always wondered how someone can manage to even GET lamina faces while modelling.

**Talin64** · July 24th, 2007 10:41 AM

Well
Most likely you have a ton of triangles in that level.
I think there is a cap, although I am not sure.

You need to use portals wisely.
Since they are used to create the Potential Visible Set
Portals are used in lots of ways when proccessed by tool,
1. They are used as splitting planes for the Visible BSP
2. They are used to calculate what clusters you can see from another cluster.
I will give you some general rules to place them..
Maybe someone else can help out with there ideas in a later post.

1. Use portals to enclose parts of the level that are hidden behind other geometry.
2. Use portals to enclose geometry that has a lot of triangles. i.e. Bases