Can anyone help

[UK_Karlos]

When compiling my map i have noticed that my portalclusters and numportals are very high and it takes that long to compile i have to turn my pc off due to the processor overheating (CPU at 99% all the time but only when compiling).

2 threads
reading c:\documents and settings\karl\my documents\my map\coast\Coast_1a.bsp
reading c:\documents and settings\karl\my documents\my map\coast\Coast_1a.prt
1493 portalclusters
5172 numportals

I now have the VIS.exe set to fast or none.
Can anyone tell me how to reduce the number of portalclusters and numportals.

 

[Sly Assassin]

Thats not really that high, the map I'm currently working on is double or triple the amount you've got there.

 

[UltraProAnti]

sounds to me like you have both have unnecessarily high structural (vis-blocking) brush counts. try unchecking the visibility of everything but structural brushwork (i.e. unchecking everything for which there's a checkbox) and see what you have left, and see if it can simplified.

 

[Raeven0]

For Source: http://www.student.kun.nl/rvanhoorn/Optimization.htm

 

[Sly Assassin]

sounds to me like you have both have unnecessarily high structural (vis-blocking) brush counts. try unchecking the visibility of everything but structural brushwork (i.e. unchecking everything for which there's a checkbox) and see what you have left, and see if it can simplified.

My maps rather large and wide open, so there is alot of stuff to see as its a countryside map. I've limited the veiw using fog and zclip and used occluders etc, the map takes up 3/4 or more of the entire hammer grid (looking down on it). Hence why the vis leaves are so high.

 

[UltraProAnti]

i wonder if vvis cuts up the map into BSP blocks every 1024 units by default? Q3 engine does that

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Yes it does.

 

[UltraProAnti]

Huzzah!