WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

[Meotwister]

use models

[bruno_hk]

You could try to nodraw the unseen brushfaces, I remember something like that from the old hl1 times.

[Sentura]

some crazy shit right there. i want to see ingame screens!

[dux]

some crazy shit right there. i want to see ingame screens!

Just for kicks, nothing too serious. Planning to change the texture set and make a more realistic skybox.

[DvS]

use models

Don't got time to learn a new tool :S

some crazy shit right there. i want to see ingame screens!

My anisotropic filtering is stuck to bilinear so it looks like ass

You could try to nodraw the unseen brushfaces, I remember something like that from the old hl1 times.

Do faces that get stripped out count towards the MAX_MAP_BRUSHFACES?

An overwhelming majority of the faces in the map sit flush against another face and thus get stripped out during compile, haven't bothered to paint it all with nodraw.

[Freak]

make the whole thing a bit smaller

[dissonance]

You could try to nodraw the unseen brushfaces, I remember something like that from the old hl1 times.

Do faces that get stripped out count towards the MAX_MAP_BRUSHFACES?

An overwhelming majority of the faces in the map sit flush against another face and thus get stripped out during compile, haven't bothered to paint it all with nodraw.

You could always try using skip.

[Nexus]

it looks nothing special, but you can add some more steps here and there haha

[the0rthopaedicsurgeon]

is there any point in the brush limit? i mapped for CoD before HL2 and everything in that was brush-based. i remember making some prefabs for dods in codradiant before HL2 was even released and once i ported them to source and built the rest of the layout i was already over the limit. i haven't hit it again since i started using models but i don't see why it's there in the first place.

you could've increased the height of the steps by 150% (looks like they're 8 units so you could scale them to 12) which would keep most of the smoothness, but it's probably advanced too far to replace every single step by now.

[DvS]

is there any point in the brush limit? i mapped for CoD before HL2 and everything in that was brush-based. i remember making some prefabs for dods in codradiant before HL2 was even released and once i ported them to source and built the rest of the layout i was already over the limit. i haven't hit it again since i started using models but i don't see why it's there in the first place.

you could've increased the height of the steps by 150% (looks like they're 8 units so you could scale them to 12) which would keep most of the smoothness, but it's probably advanced too far to replace every single step by now.

Actually, sweeping changes aren't that hard to implement, all the steps are segmented into groups and at most I'd have to retexture one of four arms of the pyramid.

The problem with that though is that then I'd have to get rid of a lot of detail that is in between.

I'll find a solution and then start my own thread, don't want to hog this one

[Deathy]

You exceeded the source brush limit, which is 8192.

Interesting building btw.

[Seldoon182]

Seems I've hit an impasse of sorts.

MAX_MAP_BRUSHSIDES

In before "over 9000".

- Learn to model quickly

- Btw you should learn how Vis.exe compile yours .vmf

[DvS]

- Btw you should learn how Vis.exe compile yours .vmf

I know how vis works, but that has nothing to do with brush limits or what affects those.

[Seldoon182]

Sorry but I don't understand the aim of your work...

I know how vis works, ...

I Hope you will release this only for Sp coz I can't imagine how you're going to optimize this big room for Mp...

[DvS]

I started out accepting that I would probably not be able to visblock with complex geometry like that and it works fine ingame, my computer blows and I still get upwards of 200fps.

I know you're trying to help, but my problem doesn't lie with performance or optimization, but with arbitrary limits on how many brushes I can use.

If I ever get the brushcount down I'll be using occluders and hints as well as I can, but it's not like the map would slow to a crawl for anyone without such optimizations.