Talk:Hint brush

the capital letters in the name look weird. it's not an anagram, is it? =/ --Mungo

I didnt do it :) --Zombie@computer

I'm thinking of changing this title to "Hint brushes", and possibly put this text on this "Hints" page instead:

"For hint brushes, used to control visibility in a map, go here.

For hint nodes, used to give AI contextual pointers, go here."

Any objections? --Andreasen 06:36, 5 Apr 2006 (PDT)

it was named such because thats what the texture looks like: HINT—ts2do 14:29, 5 Apr 2006 (PDT)

That sounds more like an explanation, so I'm not counting that as an objection. (For instance, area portals isn't called "AREA PORTALS" just because is says so on the texture.) Moving page... --Andreasen 05:16, 20 Apr 2006 (PDT)

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I think this needs a screenshot or two of Metastasis 1, to show what hint brushes can do - it's mainly an outdoors map, but effectively an indoors one from a player's visibility point of view. All thanks to a giant hint brush which slices the world in half... —Cargo Cult _{(info, talk)} 12:17, 23 May 2006 (PDT)

How to properly hint/skip a room with windows?

I have a room with a wall separating two sides.

A, B, (C, D), E are windows (glass/glass_frosted_002).

(same thing, just opposite side)

I don't know how to go about hint/skipping this so that when I'm in the middle on each side (between solid, non-transparent walls) the details on the other side of me won't show up until I enter the space linking the two sides, underneath window E.

--Mattshu 17:21, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

You will need to sheathe the opaque wall with hints. Imagine stretching the brush out so that it hits the far turquoise walls. (Depending on how much detail you put in that leaf, it may not be worth optimising.) --TomEdwards 17:23, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Hints not always working?

I've tried to get Hint brushes to cut VIS leaves in various ways now, without results. The compiler just ignores them. Maybe it only hints at ways to cut leaves in ambiguous situations, and if you really want them cut that way, there are more decisive tool brushes for that. --MossyBucket (formerly Andreasen) 21:16, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

...or maybe I've confused visleaves with polygons, because I have assumed that these were going to be cut the same way as well, but while mat_wireframe 3 looks okay, mat_wireframe 1/2 looks horrible. If I make a func_detail, and surround it with an invisible tool texture and a hint texture, that still won't restrict polygons from cutting up my levels.

--MossyBucket (formerly Andreasen) 00:35, 17 February 2011 (UTC)