Errr no, I'm gonna try and explain this silly analogy...

Lets look at the maps, which are the animals in my analogy. As both of these are different maps, they are different animals. The older map is the dog, while the newer one is the mouse. The type and size of animals has no real bearing here, its impossible to take this analogy TOO far without seeing the maps themselves.

Then there are the compile tools which you USE on the maps. For some daft reason I chose to represent this by weapons. Again, the weapons represting the tools has no bearing.

Finally, there are the editors. These are also used on the maps but have no relation to the compile process. In the analogy these are the cages - the cages have no relation to the shooting or the guns, just as the editors have no relation to the compile tools.

As such, there is no direct link between the animals cages and their fate from the shooting - you could quite easily have stuffed the dog into the mouse cage and given the mouse the luxury of the dog cage and their outcome from the shooting would be identical. This proves (yeah, right!) that the editors had no bearing on your compile times.

Oh god, I'll do anything to distract me from mapping won't I!

LOL, this post is just plain crazy

Seriously though G.ball, I won't believe you until I have conclusive evidence. For that, I'd need you to run the following experiment. I'll now accept that you are taking editor and tools as one package, rather than as two seperate variables.

CASE 1:
Worldcraft 2.1
Whatever tools it comes with
A map
A freshly restarted computer with no programs running

CASE 2:
Valve Hammer Editor 3.4 / 3.5
Whatever tools it comes with
The SAME map
A freshly restarted computer with no programs running

Compile with case 1, time it. Restart your computer and compile with case 2, timing it. I doubt case 1 and 2 would yield much difference, and if case 2 is longer than case 1 by any significant amount (giving some margin of error for incalculable errors like differing page faults while accessing memory etc...) then chances are its because case 2 is doing a better job of compiling

crazyd, let me appologise on behalf of all the *twitch*sane*twitch* people here. editing threads don't normally go this way. at least not before they get resolved.

i asked what mod you were making this for, because some mods need to have a certain entity in the map before they will appear on your maps list. for tfc you would need a tf_detect entity in your map.

if it is another mod, then there may be a specific entity that you need. there should be someone here that's able to tell you what it would be.

a sure way of getting your map to load is with the changelevel command in the console. all you need to do is start up your mod with one of the maps that you can see. once your in the game, enter changelevel mapname in the console. where mapname is the name of your map, of course. this should load up your level, even without its 'detect' entity.

^^that's all assuming that you did compile a playable .bsp, and it's in the correct mods maps folder.

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We do have our own files section here fraggard

*commits seppuku*