Piece of base disappears in mission

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I made the outpost, with all openings covered with portals. I made the tunnel section without portals, just like Berk say. I put one of each in.

At a certain distance from the exit leading to the tunnel (looking through the portal) the tunnel disappears completely. The doorway the portal is set in does not. Direction of look does not matter, only distance, about 4-500 points from the portal. Farther and nearer it's there.

I put in another tunnel section extending the first, and it disappears at the same time.

From the other direction no such thing happens.
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BTW I found that aligning those tunnels and the outpost too can be done by simply text editing the mis file in wordpad. I aligned the tunnel sections perfectly by just grabbing the X & Z coordinates from one and pasting into the other, leaving the axial (Y) alone.

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So has anyone else had this happen? Know what to do about it? Is it specific to my machine?

[deathinthedark offline]

I had this happen to my tunnels that I created. When I placed the series together, the tunnels walls seemed to dissapear and then reapear as you walked forward. That problem cleared up when I added portals. The portals that I placed allowed ambient light to come through, I did not want my tunnels to be too dark. I did have a few tunnels in another series where I added the portal with no ambient light and no strong light_omnis It was REALLY dark inside. Great location for Cloaks.

I suggest adding a portal that allows light through.

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But berk say only add portals on the main thingies, not the halls.

He couldn't be Wrong, could he? :-\

[deathinthedark offline]

I am not going to argue a point with anyone. I am a bit green with this, but I am not a complete amateur. I do not know why Berk would say that but I do know that it worked for me and it took care of the problem. If there is sky peeking through any hall, then you need a portal. If you can see sky out anywere, then you need portals. If your tunnel is attached to the building as you say as a hall, then you need to check your walls and make certain that they are all properly connected without ANY gaps showing sky. If there are then you need to close up the gaps unless you want the sky to show in that case then you need to add a portal. Portals are basically the see through lids that make your object nice and sealed so that the game engine displays and uses it properly.

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I just tried closing it all up with portals and no change. At this point I do have a number of openings that show sky which are not intended to stay that way, maybe I put walls there and see if that changes things. This is what I hate about mapping - I should be working on creative stuff and instead I spend all my time messing around with obscure BS like this.

Thanks for the input.

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