What's the maximum amount of brushes that you can use in CoD:WaW and CoD:MW?

I'm not sure myself, I recently managed to compile a 12.000 brush map (which took 13 hours).

So basicly what's the limit on structural, detail and non-colliding stuff?

Hopefully not less then 30.000

edited on Feb. 22, 2009 06:03 am by jeannotvb

I regularly hit around 9000 brushes on Multiplayer/zombie sized maps.

I don't tend to pay attention to the brush count of the whole map very often but am always concerned when one portal cell is beginning to get a lot of brushes. (one of my maps has 768 brushes in one room!)

I wouldn't be surprised if there was an overall limit, at least a limit on the content of each portal cell anyway.

If you get to 30.000 brushes and it still works then that's excellent, but I would think most people rarely even hit 8000.

This is a singleplayer map, I usually hit around 10.000 brushes with full detail but it seems to run fine thanks to my superior optimization skills.

Anyway I think i'll need about ~18.000 brushes depending on the decals, i'll run a test to see if compiles, compiling 6000 brushes as structural didn't work (ERROR: MAX_MAP_NODES) so that limit is probably around 5000 - luckily structural brushes are barely used (in my map that is)

edited on Feb. 22, 2009 08:01 am by jeannotvb

I managed to compile 23.462 brushes, they were formed in a cube though so the lighting only took 2 second, as for structural it worked but with more advanced lighting on every single brush there might be problems. But it is possible to do maps with ~23.000 brushes - not that there's many people who need that.

I had even 32000 brushes in my map, it worked well until 15000 (all in one cell) but then, whatever I did, it didn't compile - I divided it into cells, didn't work, I deleted large coal belt conveyor (about 10000 brushes), it didn't work, when I decreased the amount of brushes to 15000 again, it compiled, but in the game, the worldspawn was leaked and all was lighted red. so I only mapped and didn't compile, but once I had lust for seeing my work in action, so I tried to compile the 24.7 MB mapfile...no chance ... Now, I have a map of about 50000 brushes, divided into 3 files, that can be merged instantly... if you have those superior optimization skills, maybe you could halp me a bit... the problem is that I'm making the factory (Stalingrad's Red October factory (Krasnyj Oktiabr) ) and there are quite high factory buildings, water tower, gas holder (not finished) and other stuff, put onto simple ground with a lot of space between each other - as I said before, I tried portalling (thought they say WW does the portalling automatically), but nothing works...
thanks both for written or manual help