Areaportals Hint and Skip

It's not about too many thing to be drawn but just too many entities. I'm not very aware about this error but if you are using too many times a certain type of entities, you will have this. (ex : dynamic light instead of static ones)

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Entity_limit

I'm interested to see what the map looks like if you've hit the entity limit?

Any screenshots to hand?

As other people have said there's too much entities in your map. As far as I'm concerned this has little to do with the renderer, areaportals or hints.

The most probable cause is a particle volume which creates way too many particles. This can be a func_smokevolume, func_precipitation, func_dustmotes, env_bubbles, env_smokestack, etc. These are older entities, nowadays you should use an info_particle_system instead.

Or you copied and pasted the same physic props a thousands times, who knows. Don't do that.

Quote from Klems

Or you copied and pasted the same physic props a thousands times, who knows. Don't do that.

inb4 secret stockpile of physics melons

Quote from jackophant

inb4 secret stockpile of physics melons

I can confirm that too many melons will cause this error. While I thought the max amount was 2^11, I found it to be closer to 1950. While that amount is possible it does not run very stable, however 1922 runs rather smooth. Here is a vmf if you wish to blast down hundreds melons, also there is a little possible prank included.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2111mujoehwv…n_Test.vmf?dl=0

P.S I will be checking all future playtest submissions for similar pranks.