Okay... this is disturbing… my wed have been compiling a level visibility for 28 hours now, and always been using both my CPUs to 99%... and it is till only half finished.. and it goes slower and slower... this latest portal have been compiling for 2 hours now.. and still not finished… and I have no compile errors like "level leaking" or something like that. What am I doing wrong? or is this normal? The level has about 12 000 portals... so I am wandering… what is normal amount of portals, and how long time does this take for you, and how fast computer are you using?

My computer have 2.16 GHZ 2x1GB memory with about 600 buss speed... (does the speed depend on anything else?)
(the compiler only use 7 876 KB if i look in the task manager)

Thanks for any reply!

probably are normal depent of how complicated are your level (ligths and models)
but you can render in low quality first
for check the level

but... are texture size and number of lights really relevant for the compile time of visibility?
(btw.. it is still calculating the same portal as mentioned above..)

The map is fairly complicated... so i can understand that it will take time, but there is still 12 000 portals, so the time should depend on that, shouldn't it? An 5h for one portal is weird.. this is really irritating.. because the map gets really heavy if i don't calculate it. And every other part of the entire game is finished -_-...

with that portal thing is meant, that the bsp-tree is build-> visibility calculation.
So under that circumstances, the level have to be not too complex and should have no major details(stones ,fences and that stuff). In best case only the bottom, housewalls and the roof.
All the details you want to add to your level you should do with models( you can also give an easy ffp-shader, so that they look exactly as the level).

Thanks, but i already know that, and that is really not my question.. :/

In my case the brick walls, the houses(not including stuff like windows), the ground and the simple benches for flowers and containers are level blocks, eeverything else is models.

it has finally finished some more portals... -_- that was about time...

Hi Gafgar, have you set the Surfaces of the Block which one the Player doesnt see to "none"? This can increase the Build time much !
If made a Level with ~1500 Blocks, some time ago. This map had ~25000 Portals and the Build Time was 10 Minutes (VC + LC = High).
And my PC is very old AMD Sempron 2500+ 512 DDR.

cYa Sebastian