hello again.

so i have a pretty damn huge map at progress
i've tried to run it with a simple ground texture
and some buildings , well actually lots of buildings , all of them are prefabs, so it will be easy to change them afterwords.

i did everything right.
except i guess one thing, when compiling i get this error and it stops before Lighitng as it cannot find d3d file.

this is what i get:
MAX_MAP_DRAW_VERTS (524288) exceeded for layered geometry.

that map needs to be huge.. so unless i did something wrong and didn't noticed it , its bye bye for COD4 RADIANT for its limitations.

if anyone can help.
pls :(

ty for your time.

As it says that error during compile, then it probably means that you have too much stuff in your map (not models), try taking some buildings out

edited on Aug. 18, 2008 04:00 pm by .KiLL3R.

now i get max_map_node
i have no nodes... not helicopter no ai .. its mp map..
can someone help?

and about the first post , yeah i used way too much verts, i'm starting to understand the limitations.. and i think i made an horrible mistake about using this engine.. to tell the truth it has too many limitantions.

Make more stuff detail (select brushes > right click > Make detail)

.KiLL3R. writes...

can you explain a bit about "make detail"?

Making stuff detailed means the compiler will basically ignore the brushes in the portalling stage of your map.

For instance.. if you have a house, make everything inside the house detail, and leave the outer walls, the roof and the floor structural. When you portal your own map later on, it will mean everything which is detailed and in a portalcell you can't see won't be drawn, thus increasing FPS in your map.

ty
and another one if were at it

about portaling , its like shadow_caster right?
i need to poratal windows and doors and any other exit , i'm not talking about out doors area (didn't get that far yet) , so about builidngs , doors windows exits etc..

and do i use no_draw or another tool? no idea,
i guess i'm pretty good with building and stuff but scripts tools are no my experties so sorry about alot of question , that i already should have known about.

There is a great tutorial on portalling in the CoD tutorial section. Read it.

The basics: A portal cell is a closed box, closed by either structural brushes or portal brushes. The engine knows from which cell you can look into which other cell and draws based on that. The graphics card thus doesn't have to draw things you can't see anyway, raising FPS.

Hello all,

I have the same problem as haliop and I can't solve it by myself.

I want this map finished, because it looks very cool and I made a lot of prefabs for.
I did alot of brushes in detail.

I had to make a lot of terrain patches for the surrounding mountains to give the map some boundaries.
There are 4 tunnels going through the mountains, of which I made 3 of square bevel.
The tunnels are blocked with debri, fallen rocks and 1 tunnel has derailed trainwagons in it.

Here a image of how the map looks like before my first compile.



I need some help how to solve it or a better idea to make the boundaries, so I don't get the errors again.


Thx for the time you take to help us noobs

MetalMilitiaNL

The_Caretaker writes...

I am also getting the MAX MAP NODES error.

I wanted to clear up what you said because I am still learning too. If detail brushes help cut down problems and increase FPS, then what's the point of having any structural brushes? Whats the difference if i just made everything detail?

Are structural cells ONLY to be used on outside brushes to seal in the portal cells inside?