Okay, I'll give it a try tomorrow after work and post again with my result.

is it set to run with a different nexus value under preview?, how many entities are we talking about?, sorry, I cannot download your .doc(not your fault, this computer is wierd sometimes).

The nexus value is the same: 500.

I have 93 portals
1234 objects
level size 6850 units
103 vertices
90 visible surfaces
9 textures
1021 kb texture space
31 regions

Granted, most of those "objects" are pre-compiled entities (some models and some sprites, but mostly entities).
Takes like 1 second for my level to compile.

I tried the other template files and had no luck--they all loaded with most of my objects missing from the screen and a whole lot of black emptiness between the few objects I did see (strangely, one template mentioned loading 7 objects, another template mentioned 21).

Anyway, here's what I see (3D window) in the preview or scriptless "run", which is how it should look:



And here's what I get if I attach any script at all to the build, then run it:

Is there any way to exactly duplicate the "preview" mode via a script?

ask conitec....

(looks very good btw )

nipx

Thanks! The colors are even a little off in the screenshot, and it actually looks better than that.

I was hoping Doug or JCL would have some advice on what the problem might be, or on how I could work to to narrow down the possibilites of what's causing it. I'd even be willing (happy, actually) to either ftp my project to them, or snail-mail it (on my dollar) on CD to them if they wanted to take a look that way. Hopefully they'll notice this thread...

So nobody has seen anything like this before?

Nope, I haven't had any problems like that, but then again I'm not using map entities most of the time. If you like, you can PM me a download link to your project and I could take a look at it, I still think it's a camera.clip_near , camera.clip_far issue, eventhough it could be something else.

By the way, not that it really should matter, but preview mode uses the standard amount of nexus, which is not 500, unless I've missed a new feature.

Cheers

Sounds as if the script were missing some paths and thus unable to load all the map entities.
Assuming you indeed have your map entities organized in subfolders, you could try and open up your main script, then add some path "xyz" statements at its top, where xyz is the name of the subfolder with all the map entities in it.