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Spread out for sure. That way you can choose where you want to spawn in a way, makes it more like modern FPS games.

That's incompatible because we have hamsters in wheels running the servers right now. Adding cats to the mix would cause severe downtime.

It's been discussed before. The green ACU is used in all environments for the US Army (as far as I can tell with my research). Marines use different color camo for different environments. The Army uses 1 color for everything due to budget constraints. There's a thread on here that shows Wikipedia articles and information, you can look around.

The thing is, I couldn't give a crap less. Sure, it's possible, Smoke even said so. But I'd bet there's extra setup and hassle and what's the point? People aren't going to care if this site is down for a little while. Now if this site was performing a critical function then yea, it would be great to have a seamless transition.

From my limited knowledge, I believe the VPS server is just going to be re-setup on another machine and not cloned. AAO25 will still be accessible, probably from the IP so at that point, I'll make a backup and restore it to the new VPS when it's up and running.

ELiZ, do the same test again except get right up against the wall, you will see StaticMesh poly count start to drop to 1/3 or so. I think this is due to the fact that the AntiPortal brush isn't very large and you're so close to the objects, being in the same room. I'm not sure why the editor shows the StaticMeshes fully occluded even when at a significant distance from the wall, perhaps it's just rendering differences.

This effect happens on your version 2 and both of the ones I edited.

Slap my ass and call me Judy. Your Test2 actually does work without any modifications:


So, it doesn't matter that the AntiPortal is technically outside the main subtraction/geometry. Maybe Epic fixed that in the build we have?

Not quite right... Make Antiportal outside of geometry, zoom out in 2D viewport and move map around - you can then noted disappearing parts of the map. Antiportal should be inside of geometry - completely invisible from outside.

Right, do you do want it inside geometry so the player doesn't notice the engine occluding objects. I just was saying that it doesn't matter as far as the engine is concerned, as long as the AntiPortal is inside ANY subtraction, it will work.

ELiZ, I usually make AntiPortals slightly smaller than the geometry I'm putting them in for 2 reasons:
1. It's faster than figuring out the exact size of the geometry.
2. To avoid any potential sizing issues of getting the AntiPortal just outside the geometry.

Now that I figured out my problem, I don't have any issue putting AntiPortals inside of BSP. The AntiPortal surface flag is more efficient however you can only use it on Additions that don't have Subtractions in them (i.e. a door) otherwise the player will see a HOM effect in the doorway until they go through it. In that case, you either rebuild the building with different BSP (adding more) or just throw an AntiPortal brush inside the wall and call it good.

Nevermind. I'm dumbfounded by my own stupidity.

Typically I press O and C upon opening the editor, to hide the annoying playerblocks, commvolumes AND AntiPortal brushes. Apparently, hiding the brush also hides the effect unlike when hiding BSP with a surface flag of AntiPortal, the effect is still there. Pressing O in the live view with RMODE 1 will toggle the AntiPortal on/off.

I faintly recall running into this before, many years ago but it's not something I remembered for whatever reason.