Removing cordon areas
Posted Jul 28, 2012
I'm using cordons to reduce compile time in my rather large map. However, my hands shake pretty badly, so when I go to edit cordon bounds, I miss and create another 1x1x1 cordon area. Now, I have many of these 1x1x1 cordon areas scattered around my map, and it's giving me the error, "Drastic memory overflow - Fell out of small block heap" (or something like that) Is there a way to remove all cordon areas and start from scratch, or do I just need to look around for any remaining cordon areas?
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Posted Jul 28, 2012
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I'm not sure how you'd do this in hammer, but if no one has a better answer, you can edit the vmf in a text editor. Open the vmf, go to the very bottom, and delete the section starting with "cordons". This should go without saying, but backup your file before you try this.
Posted Jul 28, 2012
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Thanks, that worked. Maybe less caffeine or less mouse sensitivity would work too...
Posted Jul 28, 2012
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You could always click the edit cordon button instead of the new cordon button to change your cordons. Just saying.
Also that error appears when you cordon reguardless. You could ignore it I think.
Posted Jul 28, 2012
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Yea, pretty much always edit the cordon you've made to compile sections. Making a new one is just a nightmare, and I haven't found a way to correctly edit them, as they seem to be based on age (like the first one you make is the last one you can select). IDK, it's really confusing. I just stick with one when I map.
Posted Jul 28, 2012
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Just cilck on the cordon and press delete to remove them. Simple
P.S. Kaleido get on IRC
Posted Jul 29, 2012
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There's a cordon tab in the visgroups sections towards the right-hand side of hammer, which lets you control both cordons and the boxes which make up a cordon.
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Posted Jul 29, 2012
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BEARD! wrote:
There's a cordon tab in the visgroups sections towards the right-hand side of hammer, which lets you control both cordons and the boxes which make up a cordon.
I wonder if this is a new feature. I don't use cordons very frequently as it is, but I totally don't remember this.