New Compile Tools for any Source game

    qUiCkSiLvEr just released his latest tool called VBCT (Valve Batch Compile Tool) which acts as a replacement for the Hammer interface to compile your map.

    It also brings a vast list of improvements over Hammer as it gives you help and description of each of the processes along the way, yet still acts as a simplified expert mode.

    I was fortunate enough to be among the beta testers for qS for the past few weeks, and I must say this tool is my new best friend mapping. In contrary to Nem's own tool, this one is a lot more user friendly. While I realize this isn't exactly the kinda target visiting this forum regularly, I personally prefer it over Nem's.

    Give it a try !

    http://qsextreme.com/vbct/

    It does work, however I'm told Valve needs to release an update for VMPI to work with OB VRAD, as it currently crashes. VVIS works fine though.

    Very cool.

    I used batch files in the HL1 days as it was almost neccessary due to the percentage of resources Worldcraft ate up, but now I find it easiest just to use Hammer, it's not any slower in these days of multi-gigs of ram and theres really only a few extra options you need and I built them into Hammer's hdr full final setting.

    But I'm sure I'll use this when my single player HL2/portal packs are done to do final compiles on everything at once.

    Looks similiar to the compiler we use in the Decadence office. Only our net compiler distribute the jobs on all our computers. 20 cores is nice for compiling <3 Johan our programmer (just needed to brag)

    Quote from e-freak

    OT: You've an own office for Decadence? o_O

    Yeah, sort of. But maybe not so much that we "own" it as "having made a takeover of a University computerroom for the last year or so"

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