Map rendering nearly all brushes

I used to mat_wireframe 1 in my map to see what it is rendering, and it seems to be rendering nearly all the brushes I have done so far. I am not using any func_detail brushes, theres on hint brush [hint on one side] and I have 5 areaportalwindows.
I am getting 28/29fps min. I have done +showbudget aswell and it is brush rendering that is taking the most.
Anyideas to help cut this down?

Hint brushes (looks like you could separate off that area to the left a bit with them) or area portals (prolly not the best idea for this map tho), plus you can use mat_wireframe 3 to see all the bsp cuts and get a better idea of what should be turned into a func_detail (looks like to me the pillards on the right could be func_detail).

Always-open areaportals in your doorways/portals should help a bit.

But its multi player CSS, dont think that would be logial if one area disappeared suddenly

But its multi player CSS, dont think that would be logial if one area disappeared suddenly

I don't quite understand what you mean by that.

I put an area portal in the door way of the main hall and got this error in the compile log:

** Executing...

** Command: "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe"

** Parameters: -game "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\counter-strike
source\cstrike" "E:\My Documents\My Maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Jan 19 2005)

1 threads

materialPath: c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\counter-strike source\cstrike\materials

Loading E:\My Documents\My Maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts.vmf

Entity 123: func_areaportal can only be a single brush

** Executing...

** Command: "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe"

** Parameters: -game "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\counter-strike
source\cstrike" -fast "E:\My Documents\My Maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (Dec 15 2004)

fastvis = true

1 threads

reading e:\my documents\my maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts.bsp

Error opening e:\my documents\my maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts.bsp

** Executing...

** Command: "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe"

** Parameters: -game "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\counter-strike
source\cstrike" "E:\My Documents\My Maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts"

Valve Software - vrad.exe (Jan 18 2005)

----- Radiosity Simulator ----

1 threads

[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']

[1 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading e:\my documents\my maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts.bsp

Error opening e:\my documents\my maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts.bsp

** Executing...

** Command: Copy File

** Parameters: "E:\My Documents\My Maps\cs_hogwarts\cs_hogwarts.bsp"
"c:\valve\steam\steamapps\1337tramp\counter-strike
source\cstrike\maps\cs_hogwarts.bsp"

The command failed. Windows reported the error:

"The system cannot find the file specified."

Don't understand what it means though, the area portal is a single brush as in just on brush which is a cube.

Yes but it can't be chopped up by other brushes, I think. Go to that specific entity and check it out...

Also please learn to categorise your problems correctly... :razz:

$loth with area portals you can turn whats inside of them "off" that way it increases performance, if its a multi player map then if you turn it off for your self, then it may disappear for someone else (dont know never experimented with it :razz: )

Maybe you should post a screeny of it in game regular. Maybe its
just a figment of the wireframe seeing through stuff, but it looks to
me like you might just be able to see all that stuff.

Always open areaportals shouldn't do anything...

Soz Lep :sad: But thanks for the replys.

I'm gonna mess around with the area portal and see what happens, if not i'll delete it and see if that will fix it.

Huzzah, the problem was with an areaportalwindow which you can see to
the side of in the pic as there were about 10 brushes tied to one
areaportalwindows entity :sad: