Cliffs Creating Too Many Visleafs [Guide] *Edited*

[Cincomma]

Cliffs are cool, they tower above the map gracefully, making the map instantly have great detail, but, if you make them the wrong way, you might see the compile time skyrocket from 15 minutes to 5 hours if you have a somewhat average computer. First things first though, dont make a cliff with a bunch of brushes, they look good, but they boost your compile time. If you don't know how to make cliffs, here's a fantastic guide that shows you! https://tf2maps.net/threads/guide-youmes-guide-to-displacement-cliffs.798/

I hope this tutorial helped, have an absolutely fantastic day.

 

[Lampenpam]

wrong forum, and that's not how you do cliffs.... at all...
It's not even the engine tf2 is using.

You will always use displacements for cliffs. They are a lot cheaper than brushes and can be edited much more conviently.

Oh man, did you seriously make cliffs out of a shit ton of brushes in tf2?? oh boy!

 

[BigfootBeto]

That video was uploaded in 2009....

 

[Cincomma]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

 

[iiboharz]

Yeah my man this tutorial is for goldsource mapping.

 

[Ælement]

this thread has an uncanny resemblance to this ol' gem:

 

[Lampenpam]

I was just thinking about posting that one video. True classic

 

[Cincomma]

Well, you know what they say, live and learn :/

 

[Cincomma]

I tried the displacement way and it looks fantastic! Thanks guys, your criticism payed off

 

[killohurtz]

Did you really just write "don't make a cliff out of brushes", link to somebody else's tutorial, and call this a guide...?

 

[Another Bad Pun]

Freyja's guide is better than YM's anyway:

https://tf2maps.net/threads/guide-displacements-basic-construction-part-1.24966/

 

[Aquadango]

What a good tutorial. Saving this one to my personal collection.

 

[Tuaam]

this thread has an uncanny resemblance to this ol' gem:

My portalcount jumped from 2k to 10k, Nice!

 

[Ælement]

Well, you know what they say, live and learn :/

Most scholars would agree that it's better to first learn, THEN make online guides.