How to trick BspViewer and protect Secrets

Since several mappers include nice secrets in their maps and a lot of people just fire up their lovely BspViewer to find the secrets in no-time, I was wondering wheter it is possible build a map in such a way so that BspViewer is not able to see through the walls. ;)

My opinion is that secrets are a great thing and since you "waste" your time creating them, why not protecting them? So that finding them out is a real challenge and not just a matter of seconds.

Here is the way how it is done:

1. Every room that you do not want BspViewer to show, must be applied with the sky texture at the outside.
You should also make sure that secrets (as long as you teleport to them) are located somewhere else in the "world" of Hammer and not near the main map, so that you prevent BspViewers from accidentaly moving into your protected secret place.

2. Create a huge room using NULL textures all over the map. The room should cover the entire "world" of Hammer.

Now when open your map with the BspViewer and you fly out of the main map you can't see the secret place. You can apply the sky texture to the outside of every room (the entire) map so that everything disappears when the BspViewer flys outside in order to find the secrets.

The side-effects:

- for sure will this increase the size of your map (I tried it with a small map and it got 3 kb bigger)
- for sure will this increase compile time (however it shouldn't increase dramatically - I experienced almost no change compiling my small map)

I hope you find that usefull and I wish you good luck protecting your map.


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bspviewer's can't find the secret if the room is dark.

Doesn't matter what you do to visually hide it, it takes 5 seconds to browse through the entity list to see if there's teleporters or buttons that weren't a main part of the map.

Really? Maybe you can tell use your trick dEMolite. If you would be that kind? ;)

BSPtoMAP requires that the map be small. If your map is HUGE the bsptomap is going to fail.

I've searched everywhere but seems like there are no tutorials of how to protect your secrets from bsp2map or winbspc :(. But i have seen little maps too, that can't be decompiled so there has to be a way, someone knows it and is not telling.. somebody in this forum also mentioned about hex editor, but nothing certain.

I really hope that those 'someones' who know may help me :D.