Tyring to do a compile with the "extra" rather than "fast" parameter, I got the following error message after a number of hours - out of memory allocating light transport block

The map is only partially complete; being a convert of a vCoD one. I have had to replace a number of brushes with models, as the map contained a large number of crates, amongst other things.

But I thought to try a more complete compile to see how it was looking, when the error raised its head.

Does anyone have some info regarding this issue?

This is the actual error I saw:

Building light transport...
20.6% complete, 7:36:21 done, 29:24:15 remaining
Out of memory allocating light transport block


Just for info my PC is an AMD X2 4400+ with 2Gb of memory.

Thanks in advance.

hmmm - thats a new one on me, and without the complete compile log it my be tricky to pinpoint

i can suggest looking for areas that would have multiple lights overlapping, or multiple shadows being cast on the same piece of terrain or vert

i got the same Error in my latest map here is the compile log:


The only strange thing i have found is this (too much vertices not merged, never got that much on any of my maps, 20+ so far)

5733 vertices couldn't be merged because the textures point different ways

Stryder: i can send u the .map file if u want to investigate this issue in a more deep way.


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Loading map file C:\juegos\Call of Duty 2\main\maps\platform_lr.map
writing C:\juegos\Call of Duty 2\main\maps\platform_lr.d3dprt
27 unique shaders
30 actual shaders

finding triangle windings...
coalescing coincident windings...
merging into concave windings...
fixing t-junctions...
tethering holes to their concave windings...
finding index mapping and snapping vertices...
triangulating all windings...
0 self-tjunctions fixed
0 degenerate tris removed
smoothing normals...
emitting triangles...
5733 vertices couldn't be merged because the textures point different ways

building curve/terrain collision...
Adding brush neighbor bevels...
Removing redundant brush collision planes...
removed 873 brush sides
elapsed time 7 seconds
Writing C:\juegos\Call of Duty 2\main\maps\platform_lr.d3dbsp
26 seconds elapsed
Presione una tecla para continuar . . .
number of threads: 1
bounce fraction: 0.6
contrast gain: 0.3
gamma: 2.2
traces: 64
jitter: 0.75
model shadows: enabled
verbose messages: disabled
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using default bounceFraction 0.6


using default contrastGain 0.3

building collision data...
building collision took 2.6 seconds
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Calculating sample areas...
Finished in 1 seconds.
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Building light transport...
56.9% complete, 2:55:57 done, 2:13:33 remaining
Out of memory allocating light transport block
Presione una tecla para continuar . . .

edited on Jun. 27, 2006 01:15 pm by alx

you are running out of temporary memory, and likely hdd space while compiling your map -

solution - clean up your hdd to free up some room

Thx man, but i doubt thats the reason, that HDD has 24GB of free space and i have 2GB RAM :(

I will try to apply textures again and try to fix that vertices not matching.

Or redo the skybox and main parts of the map...rats!

the mismatched vertices/textures...that doesnt cause a compile error

what compile settings are you using for flare?

have you done a lightgrid?

if you look at the system processes and memory usage - i suspect that you are running out of temp memory ... you may be able to lower the requirement by doing a lightgrid if you havent already done so