VIEWING DISTANCES Created 20 years ago2003-12-06 13:54:29 UTC by Wyld Thing

im haveing trouble with viewing distances i carnt see all the way across my map i need to some how change the viewible distance so i can see all the way accross my map but i doint know how i know it can be done because i have playerd on map almost twice the size of mine and i can see all the way accross

P.S i carnt reduce the size of the map! so doint tell me to reduce the size Please

Map -> Map Properties in Hammer. There's something there, don't know what it does.

Extends the Visible distance of the map, increases the render time and generally slows everything up.
The default is 4096, but I am sure there is a limit... Try increasing it to 5120 or something else that is divisible by 16....
That might work..

Old post I know, but worth a reply

There isn't a limit as far as i know, just stick in something like 100000 and you'll never have the problem again

Hmm... yes,
It does work but try to keep it low...

it generally causes problems like demonic r_speeds etc...

You can also use the -maxviewdistance? in hlvis.exe - this can be pretty powerfull not sure if that's the right one, but if you are usng Merl's mod. of ZHLT, look at the documentation for more info on this

never had any problems in 3 years of mapping with that value kol

thanks guys that helped

well, i have

Yea. I'm having the same problem. I'm gonna try what you said, but mine get worse than that.

This map I made... I never checked it (i think it's around 30-50 r_speed average), but i bet when it's entirely, completly fixed it's gonna have r_speeds that will murder your computer.

So, the problem w/ it is that I can see down this canyon I made and see most of everything, except for the majority of entitites (and trust me, there's a HELL OF A LOT OF FUNC_BREAKABLES down there). And I have an APC, which I am very disappointed by, especially since it screwed the hell out of my texture alignment and i don't know squat about vehicles... anyway... when you get in the APC, it's fine. As you go further in, it disappears, then it might come back later if u look at it from another angle. Rocks will disappear in front of you etc...

What does all this evil mean?! Is there a balrog in the woodpile?!

I think i figured out the problem. I can do fancy stuff with maps, but i'm such a newb when it comes to the basics of mapping.

It is probably caused by the fact that I have WAY TOO MANY MOTHERLUVIN ENTITIES IN THE SAME DAMN SPOT!!!

Is there anyway to fix this w/o having to tell ppl in the mission briefing "Oh, by the way, if everything's invisible, reset to your configurations to an OpenGL driver." or sumtin crappy like that?

well keep the wpoly limit to between 600 and 800 or sumtin

ok. how do i adjust all of that stuff?

Read the r_speeds tutorial.