Can a hint brush be placed on top of a wall that runs across your hole map - I need to cut the map in half but on that wall that the hint brush sits can it have openings for the player to run through?
will that help with r_speeds? or will that just make a mess?
what i have now is a wall with the sky box on top of it going to the top of the map...
Cheers

Enjoy :D
http://lunaran.fragland.net/lsite.php?content=hints
http://www.vibrants.dk/jchq/faq/hint.htm
http://www.poisonville.net/hypov8/tuts/hint.htm
http://fps.brainerd.net/hintbrushes.htm
http://www.47hassocks.freeserve.co.uk/hint_brushes.htm
http://gate.muravlenko.ru/raznoe/tutorials/hint/hint.htm
http://tarot.telefragged.com/gensurf/ (link is on the left)
http://countermap.counter-strike.net/Tutorials/tutorial.php?id=54
http://www.wolfensteinx.com/surface/tutorials/hint_brushes.html look at least at the pictures

:D

The hint brush is so damn confusing. I've read countless tutorials and spent countless hours reading them, but i still dont understand....well, i understand how to use them in just a Hallway with an elbow, but anything more than that is beyond me

the Jello® explaination:

imagine your map brushes are LEGO® blocks. inside the rooms is empty space. now you need leafnodes in there to calculate VIS.
imagine the Leafnodes as clear Jello® gelatin of triangular wedge shapes. fill up your rooms with it.

now VIS is going to check each and every part of each and every leafnode/gelatin triangle to see what other leafnodes/gelatin it can see. if it can see another, then that space it is in and all wpolys(LEGO®s) touching it will be RENDERED by the video card.

now the HINT brush is a glass knife that cuts the gelatin into other sized triangles during compile, that is all. you can still SEE thru it and move thru it. it is NOT a wall - it is a glass knife.

so how is it used? think of a wedge of gelatin/leafnode that sticks up to "peek over" a wall. you put your glass knife HINT flat like a ceiling over the wall, and the gelatin is cut into 2 parts. the lower part with the plastic soldier/player in it can no longer "peek over" the wall, so VIS is blocked and r_speeds are lower there. and who cares about the part in the air? no one.

of course this analogy works badly in summer, when the heat melts the Jello®..... :)

i hope that helps.

I understand what they are and how they work. Its just the positioning of them in more complicated areas than just a hallway

It worked r_speeds way down thanks guys....
man you could put hint brushes in some cool spots to really bring down r_speeds...
Cheers
Mike:p