Invisible Walls in level

[Owenisred]

Hi everyone, I'm new to UDK and I'm new here. Hope I can be an active part of these forums from now on and pass on any info that I receive/work out

The reason I started working with UDK is because i recently joined a group of people looking to port an old game - and I was vaguely proficient at an older version of unreal editor. I am currently attempting to convert the old maps into UDK, by exporting the map as a .t3d file and importing, however i am encountering a very annoying problem. Invisible walls appear in several places throughout my level. I initially was completely flummoxed by this until I realised that I had stupidly forgotten to take out zone portals before exporting my brush. This appeared to have the desired effect apart from in one region of my map.

I can see nothing that would cause such an error. I have created a large brush over the affected area and intersected to see if there was anything invisible holding me back, but nothing seems to come up. I have even subtracted the geometry entirely and made my own flight of stairs to no avail - I am constantly blacked when I try to walk around the map at this specific point.

Does anyone have any idea what this might be?

Would it help if I attached a copy of my map?

Thanks in advance,
Owen.

[Owenisred]

No one know how to help me? Have I posted in the wrong section or something?

[AlejoS]

From my little experience... I had that problem when messing arround with geometry mode. Usually scaling...

[thommie]

i think it would indeed be best if you could attach a copy of (part of) your map.

[Owenisred]

Ok Ill attach the map, as I dont know how to attach a part - the error is at the stairs where the builder brush is at - thanks for your responses - much appreciated!!

MAP

Thanks again

[thommie]

did you ever try jumping over it?

it would seem to me that that one step is too large to step onto, if it's the stairs you were talking about...

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[Owenisred]

Seems to make no sense as all the stairs were all built at the same height straight from a builder brush, but yea fair does it could be that. Thanks

Also thanks for complimenting the map!

[VendorX]

@thommie: Right click -> Save link as...
@Owenisred:
WoW, entire level with one single brush - imagine impact on the performance...

1. You have two the same brushes - subtractive and additive flipped 180' - which intersect each other, remove all brush except Brush_14 and Brush_12
2. Problem are gaps in brush - there is plenty of them... Split that brush in to smaller parts - i.e. for each room, things like stairs or decorations convert to static mesh. This will eliminate any gaps and is better for performance.

[thommie]

would've been quite hard to like what he's done so far if i hadn't done that yet

i did indeed notice some weird framedrops at a few places in the level, but i wouldn't know where because i kept getting lost.

[Owenisred]

Hmm the entire level in one brush is all I could thinhk of to do. I have 2 ways I can import the level:

1. I can make a MASSIVE brush that I intersect with the level in old unrealeditor and export that brush to give you what I have at the moment. I the add lights/playerstarts etc in manually as these are not brought with the intersected brush

or

2. I can export the level in old unrealeditor and import into UDK, with all lights, playerstarts etc correct, but with hundreds of brushes that I would just have to sit and manually intersect add or deintersect subtract - Im trying to get as many maps ported as possible - and I have a good 300+ maps to convert

is there any way of applying all these brushes at once/ in the order they were made in?

Thanks again for the replies - much appreciated.

[VendorX]

1. One single brush it's very bad idea...
2. Not sure about UDK, but you can try UT3-Converter2