Texture Glitches

[tyjle]

I've been having some weird texture issues in my map, and I don't know why.
Some textures seem to be missing entirely or are the wrong texture in seemingly random places.

Some pictures: http://imgur.com/a/n0sMF

Help would be greatly appreciated.

[protist ?]

Is Alt+P showing anything? Maybe you could post a compile log.

Not much to go off here...

[RNC1839]

I'm going to assume that these are func_brush in which case there is too much complexity for one entity. Just split your brushes up into different entities and it should work out ok.

[tyjle]

Is Alt+P showing anything? Maybe you could post a compile log.

Not much to go off here...

Alt + P just says that there is no player start, even though there is a spawn. Not sure why, but that's all that's there.

Here's the compile log, I have no idea what any of it means:

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** Executing...
** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vbsp.exe"
** Parameters: -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Nov 10 2016)
6 threads
materialPath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\materials
Loading c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.vmf
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (3097.7 -806.9 3726.6)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs: Brush 39839:


FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (3097.7 -807.3 3726.2)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs: Brush 39839:


FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (3170.6 -3052.7 3716.6)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs: Brush 39761:

Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
Chop Details...done (0)
Find Visible Detail Sides...
Merged 880 detail faces...done (0)
Merging details...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.prt...Building visibility clusters...
done (0)
*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_dustbowl_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!
Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_dustbowl_01 to build the default cubemap!
*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_dustbowl_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!
Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_dustbowl_01 to build the default cubemap!
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (2) (625992 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Water found with no water_lod_control entity, creating a default one.
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 2205 texinfos to 1371
Reduced 22 texdatas to 19 (591 bytes to 470)
Writing c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.bsp
Wrote ZIP buffer, estimated size 885, actual size 671
3 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vvis.exe"
** Parameters: -fast -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (Nov  2 2016)
fastvis = true
6 threads
reading c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.bsp
reading c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.prt
 958 portalclusters
3386 numportals
BasePortalVis:       0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Optimized: 1719 visible clusters (0.19%)
Total clusters visible: 902526
Average clusters visible: 942
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 956
visdatasize:237510  compressed from 229920
writing c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.bsp
0 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\vrad.exe"
** Parameters: -bounce 2 -noextra -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless"

Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (Nov  2 2016)

      Valve Radiosity Simulator     
6 threads
[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
unknown light specifier type - lights

[56 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.bsp
Setting up ray-trace acceleration structure... Done (1.07 seconds)
9415 faces
27 degenerate faces
8602454 square feet [1238753408.00 square inches]
0 Displacements
0 Square Feet [0.00 Square Inches]
9388 patches before subdivision
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
zero area child patch
139620 patches after subdivision
sun extent from map=0.087156
2 direct lights
BuildFacelights:     0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (28)
BuildVisLeafs:       0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (110)
transfers 110971340, max 3328
transfer lists: 846.6 megs
GatherLight:         0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
   Bounce #1 added RGB(699850, 410409, 369374)
GatherLight:         0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
   Bounce #2 added RGB(263069, 167278, 152083)
Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0738 sec>
FinalLightFace:      0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (13)
FinalLightFace Done
0 of 0 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.
ThreadComputeLeafAmbient: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (21)
Writing leaf ambient...done
Ready to Finish

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brushsides           16805/65536      134440/524288   (25.6%)
planes               21306/65536      426120/1310720  (32.5%)
vertexes             13269/65536      159228/786432   (20.2%)
nodes                 3835/65536      122720/2097152  ( 5.9%)
texinfos              1371/12288       98712/884736   (11.2%)
texdata                 19/2048          608/65536    ( 0.9%)
dispinfos                0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%)
disp_verts               0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%)
disp_tris                0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%)
disp_lmsamples           0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%)
faces                 9415/65536      527240/3670016  (14.4%)
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leaffaces            10625/65536       21250/131072   (16.2%)
leafbrushes           4104/65536        8208/131072   ( 6.3%)
areas                    3/256            24/2048     ( 1.2%)
surfedges            67424/512000     269696/2048000  (13.2%)
edges                37984/256000     151936/1024000  (14.8%)
LDR worldlights          2/8192          176/720896   ( 0.0%)
HDR worldlights          0/8192            0/720896   ( 0.0%)
leafwaterdata            2/32768          24/393216   ( 0.0%)
waterstrips            729/32768        7290/327680   ( 2.2%)
waterverts               0/65536           0/786432   ( 0.0%)
waterindices         13998/65536       27996/131072   (21.4%)
cubemapsamples           0/1024            0/16384    ( 0.0%)
overlays                 0/512             0/180224   ( 0.0%)
LDR lightdata         [variable]     3821264/0        ( 0.0%)
HDR lightdata         [variable]           0/0        ( 0.0%)
visdata               [variable]      237510/16777216 ( 1.4%)
entdata               [variable]       17548/393216   ( 4.5%)
LDR ambient table     3902/65536       15608/262144   ( 6.0%)
HDR ambient table     3902/65536       15608/262144   ( 6.0%)
LDR leaf ambient     18000/65536      504000/1835008  (27.5%)
HDR leaf ambient      3902/65536      109256/1835008  ( 6.0%)
occluders                0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%)
occluder polygons        0/0               0/0        ( 0.0%)
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detail props          [variable]           1/12       ( 8.3%)
static props          [variable]           1/980      ( 0.1%)
pakfile               [variable]         671/0        ( 0.0%)
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physics terrain       [variable]           2/1048576  ( 0.0%)

Level flags = 0

Total triangle count: 26501
Writing c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.bsp
2 minutes, 54 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\team fortress 2\sourcesdk_content\tf\mapsrc\jump_flawless.bsp" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\maps\jump_flawless.bsp"


** Executing...
** Command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\hl2.exe"
** Parameters: -allowdebug -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" +map "jump_flawless"

[tyjle]

I'm going to assume that these are func_brush in which case there is too much complexity for one entity. Just split your brushes up into different entities and it should work out ok.

They should just be regular brushes, not even sure what a func_brush is lol

[scotch]

When in doubt use http://www.interlopers.net/errors/
Trying different compile settings is probably a good start.

[John]

FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (3097.7 -806.9 3726.6)
Leaf 0 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
Leaf 1 contents:
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs: Brush 39839:


FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (3097.7 -807.3 3726.2)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs: Brush 39839:


FindPortalSide: Couldn't find a good match for which brush to assign to a portal near (3170.6 -3052.7 3716.6)
Leaf 0 contents:
Leaf 1 contents: CONTENTS_SOLID
viscontents (node 0 contents ^ node 1 contents): CONTENTS_SOLID
This means that none of the brushes in leaf 0 or 1 that touches the portal has CONTENTS_SOLID
Check for a huge brush enclosing the coordinates above that has contents CONTENTS_SOLID
Candidate brush IDs: Brush 39761:

and
zero area child patch

are your problems

fix your brushes by going to the ID and for zero area child patch it's due to complex geometry including badly made ramps

[tyjle]

Hm. I copied the ramps from Oatmeal's resource map so I didn't think they'd have any problems, but idk. Is there anyway to make them "less complex" without deleting them?

[John]

were they copied and then resized? i'm not sure if that causes issues but from my experience it *might* (this goes for curved ramps, straight ramps should not be causing problems like this). Trying using the cordon tool and segment off jumps to see if another part of the map is making graphical glitches

[tyjle]

were they copied and then resized? i'm not sure if that causes issues but from my experience it *might* (this goes for curved ramps, straight ramps should not be causing problems like this). Trying using the cordon tool and segment off jumps to see if another part of the map is making graphical glitches

They weren't resized, but I did clip them. Not sure if that is causing the problem. The weird thing is that I'm getting these strange glitches on regular, rectangular brushes. Not sure why. I'll try using the cordon tool and only loading a portion without any ramps and see if that helps.

[tyjle]

No ramps, and yet:

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[John]

post your vmf so we can take a closer look

[tyjle]

post your vmf so we can take a closer look

k: *url removed*

[?oss]

Gorge004 had the same texture glitch and iirc it is cylindrical pillars that mess stuff up
well at least they did in his case

[John]

1) vvis literally takes days to run optimize map using Map -> load portal file and making everything that seems to be creating a lot of blue lines a func_detail or whatever specifically your rings and ramps NEED to be func_detailed because otherwise it takes 5000000 years to even compile your map normally

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It's taking me more than 20 minutes to compile this map so fix those optimization problems first and then check if the problems are still there. It's likely that this might fix it.