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Guys, I just breached the brushwork and fell through the map. :S

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While I was climbing a set of fairly steep stairs, I pushed against the wall (pressing both the <A> and <S> keys). I don't know if I was crouching or not. At first I sort of got stuck on some kind of a bump. I thought that was strange, because there shouldn't be anything to get stuck on there - I know because I am the maker of this map. Perhaps the brush wall transition above me sort of hit my head? Perhaps the AI walking a fair bit away from me, sort of was pushing me? ...so I tried it again, and this time I could push through the wall I was rubbing my back up against, and quickly wiggled my way out into the void, and began falling.

If you are puzzled as to how I did it, I could send you that section of the map, but I currently have no idea whether I'm able to reproduce this feat or not. I'm running the latest stable build of the engine, downloaded just a few days ago.

 

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Yeah, I can reproduce this bug. I think what's happening is that I am somehow sometimes hitting my head against the texture transition of the wall that my back is rubbing against, and that I'm then getting squeezed between the ascending steps and that transition, and the engine doesn't know how to get me out, and so it tries to push me slightly backward, and after 2-3 such pushes, I'm through the brushwork surface completely.

 

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...and the fun thing is, what I learn the third time I tried this:

Not only can you push through brushwork, but you can also jump on top of a vertical texture face, by pushing into the vertical texture above it, and then walk along the bottom/top texture edge like a tightrope, to get all sorts of places in a map.

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