quake map size limit?

[Biodude]

hey, whats the limit in quake? I need it to use in terrain generator

[MH]

Plenty of size limits, but the one I think you need to pay attention to is the +/- 4096 units in any direction limit. Some engines extend this, but it needs a new protocol.

[metchsteekle]

how to use a terrain generator though biodude? i never figured it out

[Biodude]

terrain gen is very easy and awesome to use. wait, does that mean I dont know anything XD

I have another problem, i compiled a map and when I play on it, it looks like the whole thing is glitched, then I walk tword the glitched area, and it renders it. help?

[metchsteekle]

screenshot?

[=peg=]

What client?

Some clients have a r_farclip cvar -> set to some huge value like 16384 so that stuff will always get drawn no matter how far away.. (unless your map exceeds the size limit for normal quake net-protocol)

Another possibility could be a vis error -> see Bengt Jardrup's tooltips

Also, use gl_clear 1 so you can see more clearly where the error is.. (this will fill the backbuffer with a solid color every frame, so any spots in the map that fail to render properly will have this color)

[Biodude]

im using fte

it doesnt exceed quake 1 limits



without gl_clear:

[Zop]

Peg is right in that there is a distance limit variable, but there is also a limit on the number of planes/textures to be rendered each frame. I don't know about FTE, but I think the average client won't let you change it. I would recommend trying Dark Places... or perhaps aguirRe's client.

[JPL]

Quake Engine limites are listen in aguirRe's GL engine at the end of the txt file companion (check here: The Homepage of Bengt Jardrup )

Regarding the issue in your map: it is named HOM (Hall Of Mirrors). It means either your map is not sealed, or that you have a massive glitch/leak where you have the red area. Please have a look at http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/tooltips.txt in order to solve you issue.

Overall it has nothing to do with the engine, rather with the map, not to say the mapper

[Zop]

Hmm, I didn't think to ask if this was a sealed and vis'd map. Doing both will severely reduce the amount of planes and such to be rendered, but it still might have too many due to the terrain.

[=peg=]

Yeah by the looks of it, your terrain has just way too many surfaces.. you may wanna use a larger triangle size or replace pieces where all the triangles are in the same plane by a regular brush that covers that piece..

[metchsteekle]

put some walls and rooms in so it cuts up the place and that dosent happen

..maybe?

[Biodude]

the map is a wasteland for the fallout mod