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http://www.geocities.com/cofrdrbob/bspformat.html Thats a list of whats actually in the different parts of a BSP. Nothing seems console specific.

Hope you also know the correct use of them. Badly placed hints will derease FPS!

Acutually, if you want to check what will be rendered in hammer then use the visgroups to hide all entities, displacements, water brushes and oither transparent brushes. What you see is what VIS will work with.

Look at the pictures above. As far as the game goes, the yellow walls decide what can be seen. Things that cannot be seen are not rendered and dont affect the framerate. In your case your entire map is in a big yellow box which makes the game believe that everything is infact in sight. Therefore...

Leaf 325 (portal 989) This probably means that you haven't been using func_details like you should. Causes VIS and RAD to fail and thus you get only direct (not so good) lighting. Loaf up the pointfile in hammer to find the leak.

Your compile seems to fail. Please post the compile log.

Possible cure -bounce # : Set max number of bounces (default: 10). and set that to 0. That will stop bounce lighting making your shadows as you would want them, but would also remove all realistic shadows elsewhere.

Seems like a rather expenisve pillar instead of just using cyldinders.... But I can see it would make sense if you'd want to bend the pillar later on.

And you should give us the compile log

I think that the problem you are experiencing is due to bounce lighting. The light - the direct light - is indeed constrained to these numbers but bounce lighting has no such constraints. Test this simply by making your map leak. Yes, you heard me. Leaking will cause Vis to get upset and Rad to...

If you want to map for source, you will need the SDK. Thats just how it is.

Where is the inside? :O

Nice fix for it, and thanks for posting it.

I didn't reply to help him specifically. But I hate it when I have a problem like this and I find threads like this one where the person who asks the question says "nevermind I solved it" and then doesn't give the answer. So my answer is to anyone who might stumble upon this thread later -...

For the record, trains ALWAYS spawn @ their first track. To have a train spawn somewhere else you make the first path_track somwhere else. Then for the second path_track (which will look as the first) - you check the "Teleport to this path_track" flag.