blocking volume not working

[RoBoT]

I have been working on map, adding blocking volumes in areas so it wont be glitched
but when I was testing it, some blocking volumes doesnt work like it doesnt block at all... I never touched the properties of blocking volume and I did rebuild all, all I did is duplicating (shift+D) blocking volumes.

so whats wrong?

 

[Murphy]

I don't know. Duplicating BlockingVolumes should work fine provided you do a rebuild when you're done. Are you sure you did and are you sure the settings are alright?

If you're absolutely sure, can you upload the map so we can take a look?

 

[RoBoT]

well yeah it does work some of them, maybe I did too many blocking volumes over limit?

 

[Murphy]

I know there is a limit for the number of zones in map, but I never heard of a limit for volumes.

 

[=[PMC]= breakfast]

had that problem, too... didn't know why also didn't know how to fix ... i wonder why that happens

 

[RoBoT]

I know there is a limit for the number of zones in map, but I never heard of a limit for volumes.

yeah haha I dont know either, I just assumed that
but probably I ll just add them again using brush builder

 

[ro_sauce]

what shape are you using for the volumes? because i dont think sheets will work (at least i've never been able to get those to work)

 

[FluX]

For all I know, sheets are for textures and not for blocking. You may need to make a really thin box to take it's place.

 

[Benjamin]

what shape are you using for the volumes? because i dont think sheets will work (at least i've never been able to get those to work)

That would make sense considering a sheet has zero volume.

 

[RoBoT]

what shape are you using for the volumes? because i dont think sheets will work (at least i've never been able to get those to work)

oh yeah I know sheets doesn't block, im using cube shape (changing the sizes ofcourse), does rolling/spin it will cause the problem?

 

[Murphy]

No, but drawscaling them does and if you move the vertices to turn them inside out, so to speak, they don't work anymore. E.g. imagine a cube in top-view. It's a square. Imagine that like a rug. If you pick the Northeastern points and move them around you're just moving the end of the rug around, possibly stretching it a bit. That's all fine. But as soon as you move that doen to the Southwest, over the square, you'll see the underside of the rug - that's when your brush has turned inside out. It doesn't work anymore then.

(the same rules apply to the 2d Shape Editor!)

 

[PiX]

Also, try chaning order to last, Robot.

 

[Ferenos]

I have this problem frequently, especially when working with many overlapping blocking volumes. try the following: Select the blocking volume, right click and convert to brush, I do not recommend that you change the geometry of a blocking volume. if you want to modify it, convert it to brush and then edit it, convert it back to blocking volume.