Player Clip Brush?

[timberghost_paintball]

I'm about ready to add some player clip brushes to prevent a few areas were sticky jumping could cause some gameplay issues and I was wondering about a few things.
1. Do player clip brushes create vis leaves and more precisely can they partially intersect with world geometry in order to make less clip brushes or would it be better to have more brushes that never intersect world geometry?
2. If clip brushes effect leaves I'm assuming that the compiling process would not have to calculate the area inside a clip brush so would player clip brushes over say large parts of the sky reduce compile time?

And lastly if anyone has any good info on player clip brushes in relation to optimization and performance I would be interested in learning about it.

 

[tenaciousg]

1. Do player clip brushes create vis leaves and more precisely can they partially intersect with world geometry in order to make less clip brushes or would it be better to have more brushes that never intersect world geometry?

after you compile you gotta type sv_cheats 1, then after thats in there's a code and i dont know it off the top of my head but itll show the vis leaves with red outlines, almost like wireframe

2. If clip brushes effect leaves I'm assuming that the compiling process would not have to calculate the area inside a clip brush so would player clip brushes over say large parts of the sky reduce compile time?

do you know what the 'hint' texture does?

http://www.student.ru.nl/rvanhoorn/...ts&PHPSESSID=3b43700627cdafe8abdc64aba1933bf4

 

[DrHaphazard]

Yeah that guide that Tenacious posted is bar none the best to look at when you get around to optimization. Its long but definetly thorough.

 

[Armadillo of Doom]

I put that guide in the tutorial section Anyways, I'm pretty sure that player clip will not affect vis leafs. The console command that Tenacious was thinking of is "mat_leafvis 1".

 

[tenaciousg]

that's it Immortal-D thank you. timber try out that command in your map

 

[timberghost_paintball]

thanks I'll give it a shot