Map geometry "fixes"

[Barbie]

I found some funny fixes for geometry errors...

[UnrealGGecko]

If you can't fix it... cover it with random decorations

[Chamberly]

Cheats. jk lol.

I really haven't thought of that before.

[Red_Fist]

It's a smart thing to do.

[papercoffee]

It's a smart thing to do.

Not for the mapper ...as a mapper you should have enough pride to avoid such errors. Or don't publish those maps.
But from a server Admin point of view who has to handle such mess, is it indeed smart.

The ideal would be. when an Admin doesn't have to fix stuff from others.

[Red_Fist]

I am only talking about making things look good, those BSP problems are not worth fixing.

now if they ripped a whole wall or death voids, but I call it improvising, no one will know the difference. Just like playing an instrument and you cover your mistake by making it blend in.

[papercoffee]

I am only talking about making things look good, those BSP problems are not worth fixing.

now if they ripped a whole wall or death voids, but I call it improvising, no one will know the difference. Just like playing an instrument and you cover your mistake by making it blend in.

All good pal ...I, as a mapper, would not release a map with deadly holes into the void. If I'm aware of them.
My Northern Lights map for example has a glitch ...on a place near the red forward post is a hole only reachable when you fire the transloc at this position. If you teleport you get stuck in a not deadly void. but you can't move or fire. You get behind the scenes
I noticed this by accident nearly a year after release... and I can't find the cause in the editor or the exact place.

[Barbie]

Or don't publish those maps [with visual errors]

Because that error does not affect game play (you don't die there or such), it's only a visual problem. If you cover it by a brush, a box or a flower, doesn't really matter.^^

[sektor2111]

Not with intention to look cool or such, but I have an opinion.
A sort of such lousy error is proving bad work at geometry. You, mapper should cover that using any methods but first, try to fix geometry, it do helps at learning.

Me, personally, when a brush has started to piss me off, I moved it, I did a "reset all" command and putting it back, trying to align pivot on grid, trying to prevent combining with other brush or sharing the same surface with a portal, decreasing grid to 1 UU and moving it a bit, trying to make it multiple of 8 as much as possible, etc, etc. If it still does nasty things, then I demand a cover else it looks stupid.

I noticed this by accident nearly a year after release... and I can't find the cause in the editor or the exact place.

I gotta admit this might be an interesting challenge in fixing - or call that magic Decoration.