I've finally narrowed down my problem to this:
I have the view entity:
Code:

---

 entity cur_upgrade_check
{
	view = camera;
//	flags = visible;
	layer = 3;
//	type = "ship04.mdl";
	x= 500;
	y = 0;
	z = 2;
//	tilt = 20;
}
 

---

and if I do:

cur_upgrade_check.visible = on;
ent_morph(cur_upgrade_check,ship02_mdl);

before level loading, the object is displayed on screen just fine.
But as soon as I load the level, it doesn't show the object any more. at all!
I tried around with the layers, even the sky cube layers... nothing worked...
HELP!

Micha

maybe you're using another view?

no... never defined another one through out all of my code...

yeah... that's what I thought. a weird problem no one has ever heard off...

just found out another thing about it:
when there's an error when the entity is first made visible (like when a texture wasn't found) then it will be displayed.. otherwise it won't...
Micha

I had a similar problem in A7 with regular entities:

If an entity with a transparent texture was displayed directly over the sky cube, it got invisible.
Only those parts of the entity, which were not covering the sky cube (but another entity instead) were still visible.

To get rid of the problem, I had to set the entities transparent/translucent flags to ON and their alpha to 100.

thanks so much!!
we figured out it was the normal map, that was saved as a tga. probably because it has an alpha channel... without that map, it works great!

thank you! I've been spending hours on this

we're figuring out a way to solve it... translucent + alpha = 100; doesn't do the trick yet...

Micha