ok, i know it isnt refered to as clipping in source... but hey... i couldnt think of a better work for it.

ivbetried EVERYTHING except the right thing...how do i gfet a model to be "clipped" properly. im trying to get a hedge in my map and all i can do is either make it so there is a huge box around it, or get it so that i can walk through it. help :-(

What exactly are you trying to do with the hedge? Models either block a player or they don't. Not sure what your getting at.

If the "box" collision of the model is too big, you could disable collision on the model and make a custom brush covered with the playerclip texture.

:cool:

The hedge-models don't come with a collision-hull, so you can choose between having it non-solid or use the bounding box as the collision hull. As ultranew_b said, in your case it would be best to clip it yourself with brushes.

poopie... here comes another hour of work i thought i was gonna get rid of with source... (yea...i take an hour on clipping models... i take pride in having perfect clipping...)

Jeez those are lucky hedges. I thought you'd just slap a box around them and be done, what else is there to clip?

nope, they gotta be PERFECT... nothing pisses me off more than bad clipping...

Thankfully Valve has made it a lot easier to do such things with the beta SDK, wireframe in 2D means you are able to line your clip brushes up nicely.

Originally posted by PanFrie
nope, they gotta be PERFECT... nothing pisses me off more than bad clipping...

you are my hero

I hate it when you go to shoot someone and your shot is blocked by an invisible forcefield and they manage to shoot you

a lot of the tank models in 1.3 maps have lousy clipping IMO

heh, in 1.3 i actually spent around an hour and a half on some of the tanks... was annoying ashell but it payed off

The tank obstacles on charlie were a pain because you couldn't shoot through the gaps.

Good clipping makes me smile.

Hammer 4.1 makes me smile :)

Originally posted by PanFrie
heh, in 1.3 i actually spent around an hour and a half on some of the tanks... was annoying ashell but it payed off

must be talking about different tank models then.
plenty of times I have been shooting around a tank only to see big flashes in the empty air in front of me and doing absolutely no damage to the guy I'm shooting at.

thats cause they didnt get them from me :-P or spend that time makeing theirs. generally speaking, in 1.3 every mapper had different hitboxes for the same model (like i wouldnt have the same hitboxes for a the same tank model as, say, travis).

I wish source had a Per Poly collission option, even though it woul dbe a resource hungry method it would be a nice feature to have . . .

I still think that UED has the best model placement system, being able to dynamicly scale all models ingame and use per poly collission is nice . . .