so i've made a nice little room. i have well designed windows but i don't know how to make them actual windows. i set the surface flags to "sky", but i want it to act like a window when i shoot it, not just dissapear. basically, i want the illusion of glass when i shoot at a sky surface. can someone help?

Add 00_breakingglass.cog from the stock LEC cogs to your level, set the surfaces of your glass to geo 4 and translucent with a good glass texture, and specify them in the cog.

i don't want the glass to break.

Then precisely which weapon-related illusion do you want to achieve?

I think he just wants the basic window illusion with sky behind. Thats an easy one.

Follow the above steps mentioned by GBK

"set the surfaces of your glass to geo 4 and translucent with a good glass texture"

Its really simple lol.

Bah, do this:

Cleave the sector that is your window right down the middle as if to form a "pane" of glass so now you have two sectors that are the same width and height, but thinner. Then select the two adjoined surfaces that join these 2 thin sectors and set them (Using the Geo/Surface/Face/Adjoin flags) to geo 4, impassable for player, uncheck "passable", translucent, and give them a glass texture of your choice. You can check "magsealed" if you want your laser shots to bounce off the glass.

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Thanks rendar, I was going to suggest the same thing. I really like the way you explained it, with the visual aid and all.

wow guys, thanks a lot. i love the helpfulness of people on this forum.