been doing now almost 18 hours and it seems like its stuck. it gave me visdatasize which is 521000. then 1-9 with 12 on end. then 5 avg passess per leaf then 28 mb required passage memory. then 1-9 with 24 on end. then 1 more set 1-9 and sits there. has not moved in hours. is this normal or has it stopped working and im staring at nothing and wasting my time.

do you have a high cluster count I know that slows things down.

heres the log:


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WARNING: Couldn't find image for shader textures/common/clip_nosight_dirt
WARNING: Couldn't find image for shader textures/common/clip_nosight_nothing
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1546 entities
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############### model 0 ###############
----- PatchMapDrawSurfs -----
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292 patch LOD groups
--- FaceBSP ---
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6078 leafs
----- MakeTreePortals -----
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writing C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\maps\mp\TheDaDsArmy.prt
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----- FilterDetailBrushesIntoTree -----
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97.46% lightmap efficiency
finding triangle windings...
merging into concave windings...
added 1581 points for thin polygons (0.7% more points)
fixing t-junctions...
finding index mapping and snapping vertices...
triangulating all windings...
1 self-tjunctions fixed
221 degenerate tris removed
simplifying triangles...
1407 tris simplified away (1.4%)
emitting triangles...
6113 vertices couldn't be merged because the textures point different ways
----- FilterCollisionSurfsIntoTree -----
--- EndModel ---
Writing C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\maps\mp\TheDaDsArmy.bsp
273 seconds elapsed

C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\maps\mp>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\maps\mp>"C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uoTools\
bin\q3map" -vis -v -game uo "C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\maps\mp\TheDaDsArm
y"
Q3Map v1.2 (c) 2003 Id Software Inc. / Infinity Ward / GMI Studios
---- vis ----
verbose = true
1 threads
qdir: C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\
gamedir: C:/Program Files/Call of Duty/uo/
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
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C:/Program Files/Call of Duty/\uo\pakuo03.pk3 (2275 files)
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C:/Program Files/Call of Duty//uo
C:/Program Files/Call of Duty//Call of Duty
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C:/Program Files/Call of Duty/\main\pak4.pk3 (1668 files)
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C:/Program Files/Call of Duty/\main\localized_english_pak5.pk3 (46 files)
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File Handles:
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51632 files in pk3 files
reading C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\maps\mp\TheDaDsArmy.bsp
reading C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\maps\mp\TheDaDsArmy.prt
2035 portalclusters
4638 numportals
7196 numfaces
9276 active portals
1110 hint portals
visdatasize:520968
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (12)
5 average number of passages per leaf
28 MB required passage memory
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (24)
0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...

Press "Ctrl-Alt-Del" and go to "processes"..check the CPU usage of q3map. If it's high it means q3map is still running. If it's low (00 or 01) it probably means your compiler has crashed.

q3map.exe is cpu =98 and memory usuage runs between 30000k to 94000k. now cmd.exe is 0 for both

Vis tends to be slowest at just the part it's at right now. If I were you I'd continue to wait, but it may be a long time before it finishes.

In the future, maybe you can improve the vis times by making better use of detail brushes.

everything is detail except walls floors ceilings. terrain patches are considered detail right? everything else i made detail as much as i could.

Some maps take days to compile. If your map is nearly finished it's probably normal for it to take so long.

If you're only compiling your map to test it on your own computer, try running the vis stage with the -fast option (q3map -vis -fast). That only uses the first pass (the first 1..9) and so takes alot less time.

edited on Oct. 23, 2005 04:06 pm by The_Caretaker

no this final compile lol

Hi dads, 116 unique cells !!!!! this is prolly a big map no?

have you been doing a lot of portalling?

Visdata is very high. I am no expert on this but I would guess your map is just too big