[karajorma]

I'm having a problem with a corvette I made earlier. I got it all modelled, turreted and LODded. When I put it into the game I found I could see the suns glowing straight through my ship. Not only that but I could actually fly through the back of it.

Here's a thread with pics of the orignial


Not to be beaten I viewed this as a challenge. It gave me an excuse to go back to the start and improve the model (It was a little boxy I`ll admit that).

So I slaved away the whole of yesterday and today and remade the ship. It now looks much better. I test it in the game and what do I find? I can see the sun through the back half and fly through it.

I`ve tracked the problem down but for the life of me I can`t see what on earth I`ve done wrong, let alone how to fix it.



This version of the ship works fine. I can`t fly through it. I take the ship and sweep/extrude it a little.



Now I can fly through the last segment. I can`t figure out why. I triangulated it to check it wasn`t non-flat polys. Same thing.

Anyway  here is a copy of both versions as both pofs and cobs so you can have a look at them yourselves.

I would be grateful if anyone could tell me what on Earth is the problem as I`m stumped.

[IPAndrews]

It might be worth reading the page about creating stable geometry in the ship creation guide.

[karajorma]

Read it. There isn`t a problem on that page that shouldn`t be fixed by triangulating the model.

Besides if there was a problem with last segments geometry I can`t figure out why it doesn`t show up in the other model. The last segment in the good model was sweeped too. That section works fine but when I sweep it again the model stops working.

[KARMA]

if you can exclude ALL the possible causes
(interceptions, bad geometry...) then...it happens... some kind of shapes gives sometime problems, like the xwing in my case, it happened to aldo too.....

[karajorma]

I missed a possible cause. PCS! Pof2FS2 converted it fine.