Quote from Browen on February 1, 2008, 11:11 pm

awesome, i cant wait to play it

Quote from Megadude on February 4, 2008, 4:15 pm

Just a small update. I've decided to add another room to this map, but it's a big room. You can only get across by portaling, and there are plenty of portal fizzlers to hinder you. Got the basic structure done, and finished details and lighting on about a thrid of the room. I'm not sure whether to keep the volumetric lighting models or not

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c113/megadude2006/journey/water01.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c113/megadude2006/journey/water02.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c113/megadude2006/journey/water03.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c113/megadude2006/journey/water04.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c113/megadude2006/journey/water05.jpg

This room should be at the beta stage in a few days

Quote from Megadude on February 6, 2008, 10:26 pm

Less than 72 hours later, the next beta is ready You start in the same place as the first beta, but this time you can go up the elevator to the second room. There are a few issues with this beta, which you can find in the readme included with the map, but they don't affect the puzzles at all.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c113/megadude2006/journey/second01.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c113/megadude2006/journey/second02.jpg

Click here for the download.

BTW, slightly off-topic I know not sure exactly where would be the right place to post a small piece about a small wonder of Hammer, that reduced my VVIS time from 35 minutes to 3 seconds Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Quote from Adair on February 7, 2008, 1:13 am

Megadude wrote:

BTW, slightly off-topic I know not sure exactly where would be the right place to post a small piece about a small wonder of Hammer, that reduced my VVIS time from 35 minutes to 3 seconds Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about, but if you have a useful tip for Hammer I think you want to start a thread in the "Maps and Mapping" area of the forum.

Quote from msleeper on February 7, 2008, 4:35 pm

Megadude wrote:

BTW, slightly off-topic I know not sure exactly where would be the right place to post a small piece about a small wonder of Hammer, that reduced my VVIS time from 35 minutes to 3 seconds Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I wonder if by "small wonder" you mean "func_detail" or better yet "proper map optimization".

Quote from Megadude on February 7, 2008, 5:57 pm

Been mapping for a few years now, so I think I know about those things

What I was meaning was a new entity brought out for OB games, which helps if VVIS is running for ages, even if you have properly optimised your map, (more suited for large open rooms).

Quote from msleeper on February 7, 2008, 6:54 pm

post or it didn't happen

EDIT
If VVIS is normally taking 35 minutes, then no, you haven't properly optimized your map. VVIS should take 60 seconds or less to run.

Quote from NykO18 on February 7, 2008, 7:46 pm

Are you talking about func_viscluster ?
If so, this is not a magic entity and will seriously harm your map if badly used.. Anyway, with the extra-basic structure of Portal maps, BSP and VIS are in wonderland. Any Portal map that takes longer than 1 or 2 minutes to do VIS compilation is clearly poorly optimized. I have an extra-detailed map (VMF file around 10 MB and Engine errors saying that I reached the limits) that only takes 1:20 for VIS (but 2h or so for RAD).

Quote from Megadude on February 7, 2008, 8:56 pm

*Regrets even mentioning compiling now *

I could make some certain brushes func_detail, and reduce VVIS to a few seconds by itself, but I need to keep some brushes as world brushes to keep the lighting from screwing up. Now can we get back on topic here. Had loads of comments here and in the downloads section, but only 1 is related to my map.