I saw a map on GameBanana which took 15 days to compile. Guess because of who? HlVis!
To be honest, I would be fine with letting my laptop compile a map as long as that, lol.
Interestingly, I have a Half-Life map, FILLED with these triangles (inside a 2048^3 area) and HlVis runs it all in under 4 minutes.
Well, I admit, it doesn't have very high-poly terrain. They're in the parts of the map. One part is very detailed, the other part isn't so detailed. I.e. one is higer-poly, and one is lesser-poly.
And this is where problems start...
Some triangles (even if they're covered with a non-null texture) still appear invisible.
But, other than that, I haven't had any major problems with triangular terrain.
Mmm, yeah. There's 1 additional problem. This long compile time is in fact very needy and greedy.
I compiled ts_untergrund with fast HlVis. triggers everyone
So, when I'm standing on one specific place, all the entities go invisible.
I only experienced these problems:
- Long compile time (although, I am patient and willing to wait :3)
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- Some missing faces (not a HlVis bug)
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- Invisible entities, if standing on a specific spot (fast HlVis)
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- Max clipnodes exceeded if I turn my terrain into a func_detail
I selected it and turned on "passable". Then I copied the whole terrain on the same spot and covered the copied one in CLIP (only the top faces, the rest was in Bevel).
Yeah, much effort for a not-so-great improvement.
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But still, us mappers can find a way out, most of the time. :3
Right?
