wedge2211 Posted October 30, 2002 Share Posted October 30, 2002 OK, i'm making a CTF map and I wanted to do final testing on it before i reflect and complete it. i've been doing spot testing by running a BSP fastVIS (1/2) compile, which takes about 8 minutes. The final test, I ran a BSP fullVIS (extra), matter of fact, it's still running now. Here's my issue: fullVIS does about twice as many VIS passes as fastVIS, right, so fullVIS should take twice as long. extra light passes do twice as many light passes as ususal, and 1/2 does half as many as usual, so extra should take 4 timesa as long as a 1/2 lighting compile. So I figured the total compile time would be 8 minutes * 4 * 2, or an hour and 4 minutes. Makes sense, don't it? Well NOOOOOO, i'm current on the 10th freakin hour of BSP fullVIS-ing... And I'm afraid to inturrupt it cause it might be almost done so far as i know... So can somebody explain to me the discrepency between BSP fullVIS (extra) and BSP fullVIS (1/2)? and the discrepency between 8 minutes for one and 10+ hours for the other? i'd much appreciate it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadriss Posted October 30, 2002 Share Posted October 30, 2002 Times for compiles just dont work like that, I'm afraid. Me? I'd check to be sure all brushes that CAN be detail are, make SURE there aren't any leaks, and then, just to be on the safe side, remove curves from view and check it again. Best advice I can give, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted October 30, 2002 Author Share Posted October 30, 2002 Okay, I noticed something...I finally got annoyed and killed the process, and cause i have Win XP (I saw this in another thread), any errors don't appear until after the compile process is completed/cancelled (any way to counter this?). I got a bunch of these: "WARNING: Area portal brush ### does not touch two areas" ??!?!????! I still don't get why a BSP fastVIS (1/2) worked fine, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadriss Posted October 30, 2002 Share Posted October 30, 2002 THAT error, I know. It means that your area portals do not completely seperate the two sides of your doors. Basically, there is a "hole" for vis to sneak through. You compile was taking forever because it didn't know how to draw the VIS for those sections of the map. GO into the map, look up those brush numbers, and resize those brushes so that they block off the ENTIRE doorway. As for why it worked in fastvis... because it doesnt do a full VIS procecss, it doesnt really take areaportals into account, as I understand it. And so far as I know, there is no work-around for XP users. I use XP myself, but it never bothered me too much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted October 30, 2002 Author Share Posted October 30, 2002 Thanks a lot, man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunBurN Posted October 30, 2002 Share Posted October 30, 2002 I'm having a similar problem with my map and I've inquired to Ravensoft about it. My problem is, my map compiles fine in Fast Vis (1/2), but when I use any version of Full Vis (ie Full, extra or 1/2) it compiles forever! The longest I let it go was 84 hours (over a long weekend) and I finally killed it. I looked for any significant errors in the junk.txt and couldn't find anything. If I find something out from Ravensoft, I'll let you know. SunBurN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wudan Posted October 30, 2002 Share Posted October 30, 2002 Try Q3Map2, I wrote a short tutorial on how to use it to compile JK2 maps: http://users.sisna.com/wudan/q3map2.html Also, if you have questions, or need help with it, let me know, so I can make that page better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted November 1, 2002 Author Share Posted November 1, 2002 A related question... I *CAN* make area portals out of multiple brushes, right? Say I want to fill a really wierd-shaped door with an area portal, I can just go ahead and make two or more brushes out of area-portal shader to fill it, as long as they cover the entire volume of the door and they don't overlap, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadriss Posted November 1, 2002 Share Posted November 1, 2002 I dunno, but I wanna say no. Make ONE areaportal brush, and have it fill the entire area. Even if it overlaps other brushes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted November 1, 2002 Author Share Posted November 1, 2002 I figured out my problem! It wasn't related to the sizing of my portal brushes at all. The problem was that I just drew a brush the size of the doorway and clicked the "area portal" shader, thus texturing the ENTIRE brush with "area portal." THIS WAS BAD... it tried to make portals along the shot sides of the doorframes, and so naturally the shader didn't separate two areas. DUH... SunBurn, that might be your probelm as well if it looks like your portal brushes all fit the doorways perfectly. Use a texture find/replace to convert all the area portal brushes to caulk_nonsolid brushes, then go through again and only texture the visible faces of the portal brushes with areaportal shader. I did that, wasn't TOO much of a pain, but it's worth it to watch a nice zippy error-free compile. For all of you out there, that means that my "Carexa Station" map will be released by the end of the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadriss Posted November 1, 2002 Share Posted November 1, 2002 Ummm.... Dude, that wasnt it. You had to have done something else different as well. ALL my areaportal brushes are textured on every facece with the areaportal texture. Havent had that problem yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted November 2, 2002 Author Share Posted November 2, 2002 Huh. Wierd. Cause that's all I changed, and it worked. Might've just been sof2map being stupid. I dunno, you've got me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadriss Posted November 2, 2002 Share Posted November 2, 2002 Well, If *I* have you, then could you please go shine my shoes? I have an inspection tommorrow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted November 2, 2002 Author Share Posted November 2, 2002 Ha, ha... Okay, never mind about the caulk_nonsolid thing, that makes the areaportal brushes act solid and gives a HOM when you look through one. Icky. So I went back and changed all the caulk_nonsolid texture to areaportal...and got lots of "Warning: areaportal brush ### does not touch 2 areas" messages. So I went through and checked all the brushes it pointed me to, and they all looked to fit perfectly in the doorframes...except for a few, which i fixed, so I oversized all the portals to go into the walla a little ways just to make the compiler happy. Ran it again, same messages. This is bugging the hell out of me. I'm not displaying detail brushes so I KNOW these things are fitting inside the struct brush doorframes...what's with this? I'm totally lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted November 3, 2002 Author Share Posted November 3, 2002 OK, so all my area portals seem to be fitting inside struct brushes, within all my doors...But I keep getting these compile errors. I'm lost at this point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadriss Posted November 3, 2002 Share Posted November 3, 2002 Are th eareaportals occupying the exact same space as the doors, or are they fitting INSIDE the door brushes themselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Judge Posted November 4, 2002 Share Posted November 4, 2002 Even more, the area portals have to touch all the surrounding brushes. (Doors might be smaller than the hole for them in the wall in some cases.) I don't mean to thicken them but in the other two dimensions (walls, floor, celiling). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge2211 Posted November 4, 2002 Author Share Posted November 4, 2002 I'm fairly sure that the portal brushes touch all the struct brushes to either side of the doors, and top and bottom. And they are a bit thinner than the doors, so they fit INSIDE them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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