But my jam:finished map is 4 to 0 so far. 

http://www.quake2.com/qworkshop/info/wib.html 

Building to a 32 grid sounds kind of awful. 

I remember that article clearly, and took it to heart as a youngster... but now realize it was bullshit.

It's not the wider brushes, it's the clean and on the grid mapping that's making the compile faster. The original map was on a 10 unit grid. If he remade the map on 8 units it would've compiled faster as well. 

Technically, 10 is on the grid too. 

True, 10 units is certainly A grid... 

 

Quake's arbitrary 'unit' size and the power of twos grid worked fine back in the day when everything was chunky and fudged, but it was based completely on programmer convenience rather than having a good scale for objects and that doesn't fly anymore. Especially since you don't even have to care about being on the grid in a modern engine.

Making everything into metric units makes a fuck of a lot more sense. 1 Unreal unit = 1 Centimeter. Everything can be sensibly scaled, and all sorts of physics can use real world numbers, and etc other things just work because you spend so much less time translating between real world units to Quake units that you don't get any real advantage from using in the first place! 

But 32 :( 

scampie - I mean, it could be argued that it's on a grid of 2. Which is still snapped to a grid. That's all... 

True, 2 units is certainly A grid.. 

And the name of that .map? Albert Einstein. Then everyone stood up and clapped. 

Compilers don't give a Jonathan Ross about what grid the brushes are on - I imagine the main factor at work here is whether or not brushes meet each other cleanly. 

Trollolololol ... Brushes needing to meet cleanly is one of the greatest lies ever told in the Quake editing world. :) 

but back in the 90s, I would imagine it sped up bsp, as it had to do less work or something.

Or not! 

looks nicer in the editor though. 

Might be of interest 

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-human-revolution-graphics-study/ 

 

when you say you are wrapping up your current home project soon, is that literally 'home' project or do you mean some more home made map goodness? 

Oh, I mean a scene in UE4 ... I'm trying to get something done so I can enter the Polycount Throne Room challenge.

My fail train of bad decisions and missteps can be viewed here :

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146958

Most recent shots live here:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2266143&postcount=90 

that looks really nice. 

I hung it out like bait over the various artist tanks I frequent and they gave me several pages of feedback and suggestions for improvements.

Going to have to bang on this a little more... 

I want to go to there.

Would be great for an Oculus Rift/Vive/VR Commodore 64 emulator. 

Great design, lovely, lovely. Now make the keyboard really dirty, like you know, pizzaboxes and empty coke and cigs all over..