Zs_Fuzzys_Plaza_V1

[Fuzzy Dice]

Ohhhh ehmmmm geee did fuzzy finally figure out how to make cubemaps work? OMG HE DID HE REALLY DID. Well now that thats out of the way lets go like shooooopppping honey did u need some cheerios? what about some reeses? O.M.G we like gots ta stop at like macy's oh i love these OMG IS THAT CALVIN KLEIN? kids do you want to go to gamestop? lets go see a movie! omg this one was like so gud!

 

 

HEY U GUYS SHUD LIKE TOTS DL DIS MAP ITS LIEK SEEEWWW GUD https://www.dropbox.com/s/tifmwd706vnn7wr/zs_fuzzys_plaza_v1.zip

[creeperjelle]

lol well i downloaded the map and im gone check it out

[Irontaco]

I took a extensive look through the map and there's a bunch of issues to be fixed.

 

The most important one; Optimization, the map has no optimization and the game is making everything render at the same time; the fog isn't helping in that aspect, either.

 

http://puu.sh/88G1q

 

You can see the budget showing a considerable use of resources in rendering all of the area, with the fog there is, these shouldn't be drawn.

 

http://puu.sh/88FZ0

 

Another example of all visleaves being shown; you will need a heavy use of hint brushes, areaportals and occluders to make this open area work adequately; i'm getting 25-30 fps in the map, at med settings; this, on the high popuilation server would turn into 7-10 fps.

 

http://puu.sh/88G4m

 

Even inside the cinema, things are rendering.

 

 

Other things of interest:

 

http://puu.sh/88FEd

 

Adjust your brush geometry to the props (or use brush handrails), not the props to geometry, this looks kinda awkward.

 

http://puu.sh/88FxY

 

These look awkward, too; you are not supposed to be able to see through their sides, they're supposed to be embedded into the ceiling; i know it takes a lot of work to create holes in the brushwork for these to fit in but its still a really nice detail when done right.

 

http://puu.sh/88Fx4

 

I think there's a brush missing here.

 

Other than that, good job i guess.

[Fuzzy Dice]

Map is now 100% fully optimized (shout out to iron taco for that) and the brush work is much better, fixed the last of the known errors also.

[Irontaco]

Well, no problem; but it's probably not fully optimized, i did it as best as i could with the time i had and what i know about optimizing levels using areaportals and hints. It still made a huge difference, though.