Anyone know how to fix this?


It happens in other spots on my map, as well. Basically, it acts like if the "Cubic clipping" option is toggled in Radiant. I've portaled the entirety of the map so far and that still hasn't fixed anything. Does anyone have any ideas? Help would be much appreciated, although I know I probably sound like a n00b

Once again, I was bored. I figured that since it's getting closer to winter/Christmas (for most of us, anyway), I might as well upload something that could help add some detail to maps with the contest, or something. Maybe.

Huge thanks to BlackJackJonnyy for his tutorials.
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Please don't attempt this if you don't have at least intermediate knowledge of Radiant.

First, you're obviously going to need a snow texture (note: this doesn't have to be snow; you can use whatever texture you want as long as it blends.), which I included in the .zip, as well as a finished example of what this will look like.
Put the snow1.iwi into raw\images and the images folder of your map.
(To find it in Radiant, look under the "ground" textures, or press the big F button on the toolbar and search for it.)

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1. Open Radiant, then make a square about the size of the road you want (I made mine 384x).


2. With the square selected, go to Patch > Simple terrain patch, and make a patch with 6 x 6 vertices. After you've done that, press S to open up the surface inspector and press CAP (get in the habit of doing this often).


3. Press V to open up the vertices selection and select these two that I circled:


Then, press ctrl + shift + A to add a column of vertices.


Do it again for the opposite side so it looks like this:


4. Select one of the two innermost vertical rows:


then press ctrl + shift + Q to delete it.


Do it again for the other side.


(5; optional) Highlight the top horizontal row:


then press alt + O to copy it.


Do this for the top and sides until you get the desired height and width you want (make sure to CAP it when you're done).


6. Highlight this column:


then press ctrl + shift + X to split the patch along its seam. Then, do it again for the other side. You should now have three separate patches:


7. Apply the desired road/asphalt texture to the middle patch (I'm using a custom one; I didn't include it in the .zip) and select the Natural texture setting in the surface inspector:


and press space bar to copy it. Apply the snow texture to the copied patch:


then place it directly over the road-textured patch.

8. Hold down ctrl and highlight these columns:


9. Press G to open up the Vertex Color/Alpha Editing menu. Make sure the "Alpha" box is ticked and move the alpha slider until you get the desired transparency (I set mine to 69 for simplicity's sake; somewhere between 0 and 69 is what I recommend, depending on the result you want).

(The yellow is just showing you the two columns you'll want to select, it's not part of Radiant.)

10. You should now have a pretty nice-looking, detailed road!


Feel free to alt + O until you're happy with how long it (the road...) is (but make sure to Natural the road and CAP the snow part. Copying may require a bit of texture manipulation, which I won't explain here).

But, this wouldn't be a tutorial for a bendy road if we didn't bend it, would it? No, it wouldn't be.

11. On to the bending! Press the I key to select everything (this will select everything, so make sure you either have nothing else in your map, or just select this by hand), then press W to weld the patches together. Decide where you want it to start bending, then select the four verts in the middle (make sure ALL of the patches are selected before doing this):


Hold down alt and left click; drag until you get the desired amount of curve. Repeat this for the rest of it.

12. And you're done!


Unless, of course, you want to add more detail, some examples of which are included in the prefab.

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Hopefully this at least helped you a little bit. This is my first real Radiant tutorial, so I'm sorry if it wasn't very clear. If you have any problems that don't have incredibly obvious answers, leave a post and I'll try to answer them.

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Double Post Merge: October 18, 2014, 09:02:43 pm

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Sorry for the length of this, by the way. Wow.

I got this error randomly when compiling my map:

File Handles:
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27018 files in iwd files
Loading map file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Call of Duty World at War\map_source\nazi_zombie_xmapp.map
ERROR: in map: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Call of Duty World at War\map_source\nazi_zombie_xmapp.map
ERROR: Entity 297 misc_model at (48 248 -136) no model assigned
Backwards tree volume.
This usually means there are no structural brushes.

I went back to check my map, and all of my clipping, my caulk skybox, light grid, and zones had been deleted. I'm assuming it's due to my random finger-spasms where I press every key on the keyboard, but how can I fix it?

I got bored.

Can be used for a zombie barricade or something.



The .iwi is a custom blood texture I made that I used in the prefab. Just dump it in your raw\images and the images folder of your mod. I know, it sucks. Feel free to use it however you want, I guess.

It's getting really annoying to manually select every little brush when I need to change something, so I was wondering if there's a way that I can basically make them all into one brush. I know you can with faces/terrain patches, but is it possible with the brushes themselves?

I don't know if this will make sense, but is it possible to "save" (maybe archive, for lack of a better word) an array at a certain point in time so you can use the information stored in it as a variable?  Sorry, I'm a noob at scripting