Triangle count

My to high triangle count does that I cant compile my map correctly, is there a solution to ignore thoses?

Umm, what error are you getting mate?

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Triangle count: 34736 (or sometin like that)
Failed to write map.<

Then my .bsp file is'nt made and i cant try my map.

I would like to take a closer look at the map.

If you can, email the vmf to aarondakilla@gmail.com.

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I've sent the vmf file. You'll notice that its the beta version and that some appropriated entities are kissing.

Strange, it compiled fine for me, compile log is at the bottom of this post. Maybe it compiled correctly because I was compiling for Half-life 2. I would look into downloading a more recent version of the compile tools if you don't already have or if your have gotten corrupt somehow :S.

I noticed you have quite a few errors in the map though:

• You are using model textures eg: models/props/concretefloor_blah12.vmt. Using model textures in a map will cause serious errors, you need to use the equivalent of that model texture that is used on brush geometry and use that instead.

• Only the top surface of your water needs to be textured with the water texture. All other sides need to have the nodraw texture.

• There is alot of surfaces that are unseen to the player but do not have the nodraw texture applied to these surfaces, you should texture those surfaces with nodraw.

• Putting a hollowed out brush with the sky texture around your level is bad practice, it causes all sorts of problems including poor performance!

• Your brush geometry is quite messy, you have alot of unnecessary carvings and segments in your geometry that are creating extra polygons, fixing up the brush geometry will increase performance and may make that triangle error go away.

• Your water brush is way too big, it is stretching outside the playable space unnecessarily, you should reduce it to a smaller size and keep it inside the playable space.

Perhaps you could send me a screenshot of the compile error so I can do a bit of a google search.


** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\aaronz92\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\vbsp.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\Night Terror" "C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\Desktop\test"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Dec 11 2006)
1 threads
materialPath: c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\Night Terror\materials
Loading C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\Desktop\test.vmf
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
Chop Details...done (0)
Find Visible Detail Sides...done (0)
Merging details...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\Desktop\test.prt...done (0)
Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox materials:
skybox/sky_day02_07*.vmt
Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.

No such variable "$hdrbasetexture" for material "skybox/sky_day02_07rt"
Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_day02_07 to build the default cubemap!
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (2) (783919 bytes)
Error loading studio model "models/props_gameplay/sign_gameplay01.mdl"!
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Water found with no water_lod_control entity, creating a default one.
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 520 texinfos to 411
Reduced 13 texdatas to 10 (345 bytes to 230)
Writing C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\Desktop\test.bsp
9 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\aaronz92\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\vvis.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\Night Terror" -fast "C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\Desktop\test"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (Nov 8 2007)
fastvis = true
1 threads
reading c:\documents and settings\aaron\desktop\test.bsp
reading c:\documents and settings\aaron\desktop\test.prt
247 portalclusters
676 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Optimized: 3402 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 48447
Average clusters visible: 196
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 247
visdatasize:16974 compressed from 15808
writing c:\documents and settings\aaron\desktop\test.bsp
0 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron\Desktop\test.bsp" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\Night Terror\maps\test.bsp"

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I didnt know that only water tops need to be textured, and all of those errors you send me. I'm usually making HL1 maps and those errors just dosent exist.

But thank you very much for your help with my map.

erbetal said:
But thank you very much for your help with my map. smiley

That's okay, did the map end up working?

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