Quake3World

Well, i should start from the beginning. I am working on a map called "Lockdown". In the map, I plan to make a "master control room". I was going to use the camera portals as surveilence cameras, even though I don't think they can see players(or can they?). when i had one of them set up, I tested it, and it didn't work.

I decided to make an isolated test. here's the layout(sorry about the image size):



I have the misc_portal_camera's roll at 180. I applied the common/nodraw shader to the brush intended to display the misc_portal_camera's view, and the sfx/portal_sfx shader to the specific face it should be projected onto. I have tried having the camera target both info_notnull and target_position entities, but it still doesn't work. is it the shaders, or something else?

The actual camera and the portal surface can't be in the same area otherwise the portal will "see" the camera. I'm not sure, but I think they may even need to be on different areas of the PVS.

Portals will draw players, mapmodels, items, etc.

I tried moving the camera into another room, but it still doesn't work. I'm really new to GTKRadiant, so what's the PVS?

Tutorial:
http://bubba.planetquake.gamespy.com/camera1.html

PVS: Potential Visibility Set. It's a section of the map that is currently visible from the player's current position as determined by vis.

That's actually the tutorial I used in the first place. In the prefabs section of his site he has an example of the portal, but it's in .pfb format. I don't know how I would open a Printer Font Binary in GTKRadiant, but if i could, it would be a huge help.

.pfb is the old prefab format. Just rename it to .map and you should be able to open it.

It looks like (cant really tell from the shot) that the entities are connected in backwards order. Try reversing the way they're connected