I have been working on two maps simultaneously, and at about the same time both of them ceased to compile. I have tried many different things (some extremely risky) such as deleting the GCF and re-installing, doing the same with the actual source sdk folders, and checking EVERYWHERE for leaks and errors. Cordoning off my map seems to allow it to compile, but I need the whole thing for devshots. A copy of my map is here (please don't steal my- I mean Uriak's idea/game mode). I have a feeling that it might simply be a lack of ram, as it stops at an arbitrary location in VRAD. Any ideas?
Map refuses to compile
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Darth Cyrax
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- Nov 29, 2008
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So it just stops on Vrad... Do you have a bunch of dynamic lights? Did you name any of your lights?
Also, which file is it? There are several on that mediafire link.
Also, which file is it? There are several on that mediafire link.
Vvis will take a while, especially on slower machines. If is the posit at which it lights the level. If you use Vista or win7, the compile window will freeze and you can't see the progress of the compile. I reccomend VBCT (google it) as it gives you a compile progress that won't freeze and pits less stress on your system/other programs while compiling.
None of my lights have names. I have no dynamic lights. All lightmaps are at default, as it is still in beta. I have tried the batch compiler and it freezes as well in the same place. I will double-check for anything out of the ordinary, and try excessively cutting down on world brushes to see if that helps. As it is right now, everything that isn't a massive, square, important and grid aligned has been turned into a func_detail. I have but one areaportal at this point at time, but I will try turning it off. Also, how do you get the batch compiler to run at a lower priority? It still crashes my computer.
Add the -low parameter to the three different compile stages.
VVIS and VRAD both take their time, possibly hours depending on a) your map and b) your computer. How much ram and what CPU do you have?
Also, post a compile log.
VVIS and VRAD both take their time, possibly hours depending on a) your map and b) your computer. How much ram and what CPU do you have?
Also, post a compile log.
Darth Cyrax
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Oh, and to post the compile log since it gets stuck, run your map again and when it reaches the part where it stops have task manager end vrad.exe, then you'll be able to copy/paste what remains.
Of course this will fuck up the bsp that's created, so don't load it:O.
Of course this will fuck up the bsp that's created, so don't load it:O.
Smetzle
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Which of the maps in your link is the one that won't compile? There are about five maps on that page.
I'll go with the 2 that were uploaded on the 30th
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Default != Optimized. It usually does, but not always. Try setting some lightmaps higher.
Ok.... taking a look.... cp_diamond.... Massive leak under the level, once I fixed that and am now compiling, and it is asploding my computer on portal flow, so you have a lot of func_detailing to do (I can see where this needs to be done). I think the problem you were having is the compile log window was freezing, as when I first complied without checking the leak it did it in 22 seconds, 20 of which the log window was frozen.
EDIT: compile log......
Everything is normal........ (after fixing the leak)
EDIT EDIT: pl_regret also complied fine.... I was missing a bunch of textures, so VVIS didn't run.
EDIT: compile log......
Code:
** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin\vbsp.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\team fortress 2\tf" "C:\Users\Cameron\Desktop\Cp_diamond"
Valve Software - vbsp.exe (May 19 2009)
4 threads
materialPath: c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\team fortress 2\tf\materials
Loading C:\Users\Cameron\Desktop\Cp_diamond.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...
Merged 8 detail faces...done (0)
Merging details...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing C:\Users\Cameron\Desktop\Cp_diamond.prt...Building visibility clusters...
done (0)
*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_trainyard_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!
Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_trainyard_01 to build the default cubemap!
*** Error: Skybox vtf files for skybox/sky_trainyard_01 weren't compiled with the same size texture and/or same flags!
Can't load skybox file skybox/sky_trainyard_01 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 (0) (109850 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Compacting texture/material tables...
Reduced 260 texinfos to 168
Reduced 61 texdatas to 47 (1751 bytes to 1193)
Writing C:\Users\Cameron\Desktop\Cp_diamond.bsp
2 seconds elapsed
** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin\vvis.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\team fortress 2\tf" "C:\Users\Cameron\Desktop\Cp_diamond"
Valve Software - vvis.exe (May 19 2009)
4 threads
reading c:\users\cameron\desktop\Cp_diamond.bsp
reading c:\users\cameron\desktop\Cp_diamond.prt
646 portalclusters
2064 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (949)
Optimized: 1729 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 234923
Average clusters visible: 363
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 636
visdatasize:106038 compressed from 113696
writing c:\users\cameron\desktop\Cp_diamond.bsp
15 minutes, 49 seconds elapsed
** Executing...
** Command: "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin\vrad.exe"
** Parameters: -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\team fortress 2\tf" "C:\Users\Cameron\Desktop\Cp_diamond"
Valve Software - vrad.exe SSE (May 19 2009)
Valve Radiosity Simulator
4 threads
[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[34 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']
Loading c:\users\cameron\desktop\Cp_diamond.bsp
Setting up ray-trace acceleration structure... Done (0.60 seconds)
1974 faces
691318 square feet [99549920.00 square inches]
1 Displacements
120636 Square Feet [17371648.00 Square Inches]
1974 patches before subdivision
35696 patches after subdivision
sun extent from map=0.707107
37 direct lights
BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (11)
BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (7)
transfers 3015747, max 465
transfer lists: 23.0 megs
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #1 added RGB(179044, 137762, 101151)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #2 added RGB(40452, 25258, 16292)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #3 added RGB(14961, 7414, 3865)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #4 added RGB(5914, 2324, 991)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #5 added RGB(2544, 790, 272)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #6 added RGB(1130, 277, 77)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #7 added RGB(514, 99, 22)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #8 added RGB(237, 36, 7)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #9 added RGB(111, 13, 2)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #10 added RGB(52, 5, 1)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #11 added RGB(25, 2, 0)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #12 added RGB(12, 1, 0)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #13 added RGB(6, 0, 0)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #14 added RGB(3, 0, 0)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #15 added RGB(1, 0, 0)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #16 added RGB(1, 0, 0)
Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0176 sec>
FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (4)
FinalLightFace Done
0 of 0 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.
ThreadComputeLeafAmbient: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (4)
Writing leaf ambient...done
Ready to Finish
Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
------------ --------------- --------------- --------
models 13/1024 624/49152 ( 1.3%)
brushes 297/8192 3564/98304 ( 3.6%)
brushsides 1955/65536 15640/524288 ( 3.0%)
planes 976/65536 19520/1310720 ( 1.5%)
vertexes 2778/65536 33336/786432 ( 4.2%)
nodes 1256/65536 40192/2097152 ( 1.9%)
texinfos 168/12288 12096/884736 ( 1.4%)
texdata 47/2048 1504/65536 ( 2.3%)
dispinfos 1/0 176/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_verts 289/0 5780/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_tris 512/0 1024/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_lmsamples 71470/0 71470/0 ( 0.0%)
faces 1974/65536 110544/3670016 ( 3.0%)
hdr faces 0/65536 0/3670016 ( 0.0%)
origfaces 1041/65536 58296/3670016 ( 1.6%)
leaves 1270/65536 40640/2097152 ( 1.9%)
leaffaces 2339/65536 4678/131072 ( 3.6%)
leafbrushes 801/65536 1602/131072 ( 1.2%)
areas 2/256 16/2048 ( 0.8%)
surfedges 13538/512000 54152/2048000 ( 2.6%)
edges 7998/256000 31992/1024000 ( 3.1%)
LDR worldlights 37/8192 3256/720896 ( 0.5%)
HDR worldlights 0/8192 0/720896 ( 0.0%)
leafwaterdata 0/32768 0/393216 ( 0.0%)
waterstrips 155/32768 1550/327680 ( 0.5%)
waterverts 0/65536 0/786432 ( 0.0%)
waterindices 2394/65536 4788/131072 ( 3.7%)
cubemapsamples 18/1024 288/16384 ( 1.8%)
overlays 24/512 8448/180224 ( 4.7%)
LDR lightdata [variable] 1558496/0 ( 0.0%)
HDR lightdata [variable] 0/0 ( 0.0%)
visdata [variable] 106038/16777216 ( 0.6%)
entdata [variable] 35761/393216 ( 9.1%)
LDR ambient table 1270/65536 5080/262144 ( 1.9%)
HDR ambient table 1270/65536 5080/262144 ( 1.9%)
LDR leaf ambient 6229/65536 174412/1835008 ( 9.5%)
HDR leaf ambient 1270/65536 35560/1835008 ( 1.9%)
occluders 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder polygons 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder vert ind 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
detail props [variable] 1/12 ( 8.3%)
static props [variable] 1/16466 ( 0.0%)
pakfile [variable] 5721/0 ( 0.0%)
physics [variable] 109850/4194304 ( 2.6%)
physics terrain [variable] 130/1048576 ( 0.0%)
Level flags = 0
Total triangle count: 5400
Writing c:\users\cameron\desktop\Cp_diamond.bsp
33 seconds elapsed
** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "C:\Users\Cameron\Desktop\Cp_diamond.bsp" "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\team fortress 2\tf\maps\Cp_diamond.bsp"
** Executing...
** Command: c:\program files\steam\steam.exe
** Parameters: -applaunch 440 -game "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\cameron_d\team fortress 2\tf" -toconsole -dev -console +sv_lan 1 +sv_cheats 1 +map "Cp_diamond"EDIT EDIT: pl_regret also complied fine.... I was missing a bunch of textures, so VVIS didn't run.
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