*drool* 

Heh, OK, I see the rotated nail box but what else is in that scene? 

would rock much more if it used some rudimentary vis blocking like not straight corridors between main areas... *grumbles*
But it's a test map anyway... 

...groan. Foot tapping, fidgiting, pacing up and down, unable to sleep. Refuse to make anymore maps, sulking....

Breakables ? :D :D

Haaoouwww . . . ! 

I drooled not over the screenie but over additional minimaps. 

...or find Than's GlasTest in your email... 

...the three sections are joined, and we have a seal!!! Detailing on the last section commences now :) 

men's toilets Fulton Street :) 

http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=128415 

I hope gibbie adds a dopefish somewhere. 

I'm "close" (for me) to releasing something, I'd say "before the snow melts," but anyway, does anyone have like a BEAST of a computer that they would like to volunteer for compiling some maps? Remember, with aguirRe's vis you can turn it off and then restart it. 

I'd volunteer but my computer can barely run tf2 smoothly, let alone crysis, so I'd hardly call it a beast.

I wonder if we could do some distributed map compiling. I'm not sure, but I think one of the vis programs supports it. 

building a cluster supercomputer? Stacking 4 or so mobos, each with many multi-core processors and gigabit Ethernet. Someone could make a nice php web form interface for compiling then for that. Of course users would need their own accounts.
I bet you'd get some uni project with lotsa credits for that! 

a linux build of a parallelized vis program. (And qbsp and light too ofc though they prolly dont need to be parallelized.) Aguirre's tools are win32 only atm I think. 

What actually happened was him sitting in his mom's basement, a bored grin crossing his pocky face as a cheesy fart silently escaped the gravitational pull of his arse. 

Intel E6600, 2 GB memory, plenty of harddrive space and time to waste. No quad-core unfortunately yet...

danthefryingpan -seehere- gmail com 

Does any build of vis even support multi-threading at all? I know I never got it to work... 

Does the threading code not do anything? I know that the tool itself accepts a -threads parameter although it doesn't do anything on OSX. 

It has never worked on anything else. 

http://www.theleetworld.com/2008/01/18/portal-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-turret-2/

Enjoy :) 

I've got access to a many-node supercomputer (really). If there are multi-processor compilers for linux, send it my way and I'll see what I can do. 

Cool video, I was not aware that turret's life was so exciting :P 

I will let you know as soon as I have something ready. Did I send you the latest beta of that one map or not, I can't remember. If so, all of the maps for this project are like that - open, outdoorsy, messy, etc. I'm such a retard. That beta took me 260 hours (2.4 ghz processor, 1 gb ram) to vis although I made some modifications that should cut it down for the final version. 

Feedback on q3shw21_b2:

- Are the liquids actually supposed to be liquids? They act like nonsolid brushes with liquid textures on them. Was that a mistake or is there some goobery pro-mode reason for doing this?
- Parts of this map are very poorly lit. There's nothing wrong with contrast but one of the teleporters for example was very hard to notice. Probably doesn't matter for the intended 'pro' audience because they just play the game in fullbright mode anyway, but if you're concerned about appearance outside of that (which it seems you are) I'd do another pass on this.
- I fell into the lava past the MH and you can see the insides of the lava brush not touching the surrounding geometry, because none of the curve patches for the terrain extend down that far.
- There's a big platform around the MH on the other side of the pit that doesn't do much. If you want the MH to be dangerous to reach, moving it back there would make the combat surrounding it more interesting.
- I like the architecture, that gothic take on industrial. The metal collonade by the railgun is especially cool. :D 

...32647 marksurfaces and just the exit lift to implement, pity I had to hack off a whole section full of insane future tech to get it down :( Now to finish the lighting and sound then wait patiently for the release of Quoth II.