nodraw texture?

[gastrop0d]

I come from a source engine mapping background and I'm much accustomed to having a bunch of useful TOOL textures like playerclip and nodraw.

I'm sure I don't need to explain it, but applying nodraw texture to a face just makes the face never render in the engine and not have a lightmap (so compiling lighting ignores it), but otherwise the face is exactly the same as any other face.

Any tool sets that have this?

[Downsider]

In Quake, it would be omitted by the engine rather than the compiler. I do believe certain engines support textures that will be skipped when rendering the world; just not sure of the name.

[ceriux]

i think the only one they have is clip or noclip or something. there "MIGHT" be a skip texture... maybe... there is this.

http://www.celephais.net/stuff/texturefaq.htm

[metlslime]

There was never an official "skip" texture in quake, but third party tools make it possible.

Check out my skip utility here: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60088

[gastrop0d]

Thanks, works like a charm!