degenerating triangles

Offsprey · Post by **Offsprey** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:48 pm

This is making me so iritated! when i try to run radiosity in sapien, i get the degenerating triangles error.apparently its a UVW mapping problem. But i dont know how to fix.ive tried deleting to UVW map and selecting my bitmaped faces, then reapply to UVW map.but still degenerating triangles.and since exporting-compiling-opening in sapien is about a 15 minute process, it getting annoying.

ill give a cookie to anyone who can help me!

Offsprey · Post by **Offsprey** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:32 pm

ya, im pretty sure im ready to give up on this whole HEK think.I simply can not keep errors away.whatever i do to my current maps, i get degenerating triangles.I cant import the debug.wrl because its way to ****ing huge and i get a string length error trying to import with chimp.I can see a fraction of the errors by pasting from the debug file into another then import that file, but i have no idea what to do then.

Please help me with these god****ed triangle errors.

Pie · Post by **Pie** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:34 pm

try making a simple box map nothign else done. test that

SunnySharma · Post by **SunnySharma** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:38 pm

It's just a simple UV mapping problem.

Open up 3ds, and import the debug.wrl file over your map (you must have some basic knowledge) on how to fix wrl errors.

Remember, Halo uses a complex engine that was never meant for users to design maps in. It requires almost 0 errors to make a map work perfectly. Halo maps seem to have less problems than other game maps, like glitches and stuff.

The Debug.wrl file is a special tool/sapien error spitter. Usually, the errors come in like "mapname".wrl, but the UV map one seems to come in debug.

Offsprey · Post by **Offsprey** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:14 pm

first i made a flat map, with rasied sides to keep the children in.Radiosity worked fine. then i put to dividing walls in,then i started getting my error.
http://groups.msn.com/HEKhelp/shoebox.m ... toID=2[url][/url]

lets say i dont have "basic knowledge", how do i fix it?

SunnySharma · Post by **SunnySharma** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:21 pm

Ok, check out the HaloWiki.com's Tutorial Guide on how to fix Errors in Halo CE Structure BSP Maps.

It should give you the info you need

Offsprey · Post by **Offsprey** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:24 pm

while halowikis had some nice information, none of it helped me, it had plenty of info on tool errors, nothing on sapien.

and a flat box map works fine.
but hen i change the geom at all it doesnt

here the link to my geometry.
http://groups.msn.com/HEKhelp/shoebox.m ... toID=2[url][/url]