-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I doubt simply raising the brush limits and such would have insignificant performance effect and system requirements of already existing maps and mods. Maybe a couple megs of ram for the raised static buffer sizes and maybe larger indices, if that? Even less if they are dynamically allocated buffer sizes. It wouldn't suddenly raise the system requirements significantly of HL2 and whatever else is out there until someone took the initiative to use the higher limits, which can be done safely and efficiently by a good mapper. Similar to HDR, its not a requirement that the larger limits be completely used. As with everything it's up to the mod developers to determine what performance levels they want to achieve on what level of hardware and build their content accordingly. Afaik, mods are effectively already running at a more advanced level than the what came in the HL2 box.
Agreed, it would be nice if mods could get an evolution of the engine with higher limits to these things. J On 9/6/07, Andrew Timson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/6/07, Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The limits in general are seem so stupidly low it makes things > frustrating. > > The entity/edict limits, the brush count limits for maps, etc. We > haven't > > run into the entity limits, but I think every single map we've done has > been > > an exercise of our mappers bashing their heads against what appears to > be > > artificially low mapping limits. > > They may seem artificially low, but given the liberal minimum > requirements for the games (1.2 GHz CPU, 256 MB RAM) it's almost > certainly necessary to maintain a playable experience on those > machines. > > When Episode 2 is released, with higher requirements (1.7 GHz CPU, 512 > MB RAM) we might well see an increase in those minimums for mods using > its engine. But I wouldn't expect a concomitant increase for the older > games. > > -- > Andrew Timson > ============== > "Niceness is the greatest human flaw, except for all the others." > --Brendan Moody > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
