There is a limited amount of render modictions you can do to the BSP world from the engine its self - most of its rendering spites and models behind or in front of the BSP.
What are you attempting to do? If your team wants to spend the time, and this would be a team based game, or even a single player game where you have classes you can enable or disable things in the world via the iTeam class - look at left4dead and its infected ladders - they don't work, or render for the survivors, but are there for the infected class. http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/L4D_Level_Design/Versus_Maps -------- Owner Nigredo Studios http://www.nigredostudios.com --- On Wed, 23/2/11, Zach Brockway <neveren...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Zach Brockway <neveren...@gmail.com> Subject: [hlcoders] Overriding materials, especially while rendering world (BSP) geometry To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com Received: Wednesday, 23 February, 2011, 10:23 AM Hi list, I've been investigating the possibility of being able to do across-the-board material overriding. Motivated by an idea for implementing an alternate vision mode, it would also entail a few other things like rendering alternate view setups into render targets; however, all of that seems to be well-supported and you even get the benefit of examples of how to do it. The part that I'm really stuck on is the fact that there doesn't seem to be a way to affect the material used for rendering BSP geometry, since it's all blackboxed away in the engine. Things I've tried: Calling ForcedMaterialOverride on modelrender, studiorender, and g_pStudioRender, before render->DrawWorldLists is called. This had no effect. Installing an IBrushRenderer using render->InstallBrushSurfaceRenderer. My implementation of RenderBrushModelSurface was never called, so I suspect this only affects brush-based entities. Of course, I still have to worry about how to handle the rendering of *everything else* if I manage to figure this out, but this particular problem struck me as the biggest stretch for the engine. Thanks in advance for any advice. -- "They've penetrated our code walls. They're stealing the Internet!" "We'll need to hack all IPs simultaneously." -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
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