I have always been able to shoot through the rails biggrin:

thats the problem. I want to be able to have the same thing but for some reason even with no custom pk3's loaded on the server...we cannot.

This is a bitch of a problem in clan matches. You play on the other clan's server and you never know how the rails will play. Stupid problem really and I'd be interested to hear any reasons for it.

The texture is just simply what gives the balcony the see-through appearance. In most games, pure black (RGB 255 255 255) is transparent, or see-through.

So, for you to fix this, you would need to:

1) Take the texture that covers the balcony, and strip it of black.
2) Take the map, and all of it's files, and open it in the SDK.
3) Take the balcony, which is just a square, and cut holes in between what would be the metal columns.'
4) Reapply the new texture, with real holes in the balcony.

All of this to simply be able to shoot through a balcony, you're better off doing this: eatthis:

which texture name are the ones that apply?

just want to make sure i get it right the first time..thanks

I have no idea, and for something so senceless, I'm not going to look. Use the SDK, you can find out alot quicker.