Structure vs detail: post your screenshots

[Psy]

Would be cool if you posted a screenshot of the portal file (maps > load portal file) just to show how VVIS is splitting up the visleafs.

 

[grazr]

I'm afraid you're gonna have to forgive a few un-converted details I.E. rooftops or stairs; as this is half way through B3.

 

[HeaH]

Wooh what's happening to halfacre?

/EDIT

Dammit, didn't see site 3 >_<

 

[eerieone]

pl_cashworks 1st section

 

[Nineaxis]

Here's some screenies from Stovepipe Wells.

 

[Icarus]

Waste doesn't have any impressive structure vs detail differences

I turned on textures because 3D flat hurts my eyes

 

[Nineaxis]

If you're going to do textured, at least do textured shaded

 

[ikem]

as u can see i havent created the block behind my displacements >_< thats next on my list "optimazation"

 

[Sgt Frag]

arena_medieval_b4

arena_hoover, I found a few brushes in this pic that needed func_detailed.

 

[Spike]

I don't have many things to show, cause 90% of my map is made by models and displacements.

 

[Vigilante212]

This is a very cool thread. soon as I get my hammer up and running on my new comp ill have to post my map.

 

[kwagner]

Eye opening thread!

If most (all) of my brushes are world brushes, and my compile times very long, would changing the brushes that don't seal off the void into func_details decrease my compile times?

 

[samn]

Not just the void. Func detailing should be used for small geometry or complex geometry like stairs. Don't func_detail things that seperate areas (like walls) because then the map will compile quickly but run slowly (there's a few topics on here and on the source sdk wiki about visleafs, they should explain why). Things like stairs and catwalks/walkways should be func detailed.

 

[kwagner]

AH... 1 hour compile reduced to 10 minutes. Thanks!

 

[DJive]

im horrible with this.. but for fun..

This is of RCTF_Temple

 

[YM]

whaaaayyyyy have you got the tops of the brushes floating above and not func detailed? it makes my pancreas weep!

 

[DJive]

whaaaayyyyy have you got the tops of the brushes floating above and not func detailed? it makes my pancreas weep!

ah.. never thought about that.. On the same note i prolly should func_detail that ramp as well.

 

[Randdalf]

Here's mine

 

[Shmitz]

DJive: I have to echo Youme's comment, but about your needle-monument. Surely that thing isn't blocking visibility anywhere. =P

Randdalf: Looks nice and clean, but you could still make it a little cleaner. Make all the brushes between your window inserts into func_detail, so you just have one depression for all the windows on a surface. It should end up looking like this:

The number of distinct leaves created for the windows is reduced from 17 to 4.

 

[BrokenTripod]

Wow, this is an AMAZING thread for optimization tactics.

Also, I'm loving how different a detailed map is from the structure. It's quite an amazing difference.

Also: DJive, I'd func_detail all that stuff under the pillar. The fountain and the octagonal platform under it. I think they're too small to decently block vis for anything.