Redemption FAQ If your question is not answered below, email us about it, and we'll do our best to help you out. Once we've answered your question, we'll add it to the FAQ.   General Questions: Where can I find the NOD SDK (or the 1.1 SDK patch)? How do I use the cheats?? How do I activate the console? How do I open/extract files from a .NOB file??? How do I put files back into a nob file?? My game crashes! I get a verification error when I log on to play multiplayer. Game Play: How can I identify an object? ST Mode: How do I move props to where I want them once I've placed them? The Embrace: How do I add sky to my level? GenSurf data ends up as sectors when I import GenSurf data is crashing The Embrace! Objects turn out unlit/black when I play my level When I shift+left click to select a brush, nothing happens! I'm getting "Attempted to create in static layer. Object moved to first layer." I get twinkly lines on sector boundaries in multiplayer My objects don't appear when I play my map There's a hole in the wall where my door should be! My textures appear on the outside of brushs and not the inside! How do you add a layer of water that can be walked through? NODview: ERROR: "Problem with command line parameters" Skinning: How do I get started skinning? Q: I get little twinkly lines along my sector boundaries when I play in multiplayer! What in the heck is going on? A: What's happening here is that you've got the "clear z-buffer" flag set in your chronicle file, AND you've got your level's fog color set to white. Setting the "clear z-buffer" flag in your chronicle file means that when the engine is drawing your level in the 3D hardware, it blanks out the buffer where it is drawing the next frame for display. This has the net effect of a) eliminating any HOM effect (because there won't be any leftover data to create the effect, and b) giving your hardware just a little bit more work to do while drawing, which might slow things down just a tad. In the case of the NOD engine, it uses the color you picked for your fog in your level as the color to blank the z-buffer with. There is just enough slip in the rendering engine in NOD that in this combination, there are a few little pixels that don't get drawn over on the sector boundaries during the frame render, which means that there are a few little lines of twinkly white stars along the ground. (You could make them red, if you wanted, for a really strange effect. ;) Fix this by going to your Scenes Editor (Shift-S), going to the Fog tab, and setting the fog color to 0/0/0. All better. ;) Please send feedback, questions, or bugs to darklord@planetvampire.com.