BSP problems...

[ZeroLegend]

Alright well i've made a new map, fairly large, all the textures are aligned and all the ents and lights are up so i go to compile and when i go to compile it it gives me an error.

***ERROR***
MAX_PATCHES

Now I have done everything from taking out lights to -choplight to -chopsky. i've done everything i could think of any i cant get it to work so i was wondering if anyone on here would know what to do.

[IronFist]

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[jitspoe]

How high are you going on the -chop settings?   Also, -chopcurve might need to go higher.  I've made a few of the textures phong shaded by default, but that tends to eat up a lot of patches.

[ZeroLegend]

i did -chop from 128 to about 1000 cause i was getting mad. ive also scaled up the textures and it didnt seem to do any good.

[Eiii]

If chop 128 doesn't work, you're pretty much screwed...

[ZeroLegend]

im doing chop 128 for light sky and curve and im trying to take lights and other brushes out atm to shorten it if that doesnt work ill try to scale the grass and walls up to 2...

[jitspoe]

Another common cause of this is putting a box around your map to "fix" the leaks.

[ZeroLegend]

I never do that.  I just find and fix the leaks dont see a need for a box.

[jitspoe]

Well, look for any textures that have a value set.  I think I made the grass, sand, and barrel side textures have it on by default so they'd be phong shaded.  If you have a large area of these textures, it will eat up your patches quickly.  Also, are you using arghrad 3.00?

[ZeroLegend]

ok well it was the values just took the ones in mid down to 20 and it compiles....but now when i go into dp it gives me an error..... SZ_GetSpace: Overflow.  Anyone know what that is and how to fix it?

[Demented_Soldier]

wat does -chop mean and how would i do that to my map because im getting the same error

[jitspoe]

ZeroLegend: That usually means you have too many entities in your map and it can't fit all of the data in a packet to send to the client.

Demented_Soldier: -chop basically sets the lightmap detail.  Higher values means less detail, but also less memory, so it won't hit the max patches error as quickly.  The default is 64.  You can create nice looking lighting with 32 or 16, but most maps won't compile with that.