Distributed Compiling

I've heard that vvis and vrad support distributed compiling operations at sites like this, but has anyone heard of how to get that to actually work? I try adding the -mpi param and creating the files it says it's missing while putting what I think might go in them, but I can't get past C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\sourcesdk\bin/dbinfo_vvis.txt i
s not a valid database info file.

I know this is a bit of a long shot, but has anyone heard ANYTHING about this or gotten to work? This would be so cool...Thanks.

I haven't looked into how this works yet. You might read my Netvis tutorial so you can see how distributed vis worked for HL1 That might lead you in the right direction. I don't know.

Thanks...unfortunately it doesn't really help here. Totally in the dark. I don't even know how to specify between server and client...all I know is that you at least need files dependency_info_vvis.txt and dbinfo_vvis.txt in with your vvis.exe file.

Should be interesting to figure this one out. Didn't think that the new
Hammer supported it. I've got three PC's here at home on a network -
surely would be nice to use all three for compiling :wink:

Hell yes it would :smile: Got a desktop with an AMD 2500+ and a gig of RAM, and a laptop with a Intel 2.66GHz and half a gig. It would contribute something at least.

Ok, I fired off an email to the sdk department at valve...hopefully they'll have some comment on this.

Thanks...unfortunately it doesn't really help here. Totally in the dark.
I don't even know how to specify between server and client...all I know
is that you at least need files dependency_info_vvis.txt and
dbinfo_vvis.txt in with your vvis.exe file.

Was the pun necessary? :wink:

Actually if I wasn't able to get the vvis tool working I'd be "Totally in the light" :biggrin:

(wow that was lame...I should stop talking :wink: )

Just to utterly kill the joke, you'd actually be in neither, as even
without running VIS, RAD is quite happy to carry out direct lighting
calculations, just not bounces :razz:

Hehe, thanks for that...actually I didn't realize that vrad could run without vvis. Hadn't tried it. Interestingly though they have the -mpi option for vvis and vrad...but vrad actually goes relatively quickly for me so I wouldn't really need it.

Ok, bumping since I have this problem too - Anyone got distributed compiling to work for HL2? -mpi is the parameter, but as mentioned it needs some text files (probably containing ip addresses and so on) to work, and I cant find any tuts on the subject.

Alright, since no one on the face of the planet seems to know anything about this, I shot off an email to Yahn at Valve. Hopefully I'll get an answer soon.