About how long to compile?

[ScorpioUprising]

Thanks for the help guys. I think the map was doomed from the beginning. The blocks I was making were all fully textured, and I tried to make numerous tunnels and pathways through the main block, creating a multitude of seperate shapes with all six sides textured. Gonna ditch that map and start over. Wasn't such a good one to begin with and probably had a ton of gameplay problems to boot.

[grazr]

You'll get through many maps like this. Don't worry, it's all part of the learning process.

[YM]

Tell me about it... I spent almost a year mapping before I ever released anything, and then the thing I released was rubbish.
In that time I made many many maps trying out various entities and stuff, I almost had a full HL2DM level before I realised how terribly made it was (I remade that elvel from scratch 3 times and each time was hugely better than the last, but even the latest is appaling) I made half of a single player level, was almost good but again utterly terrible compared to anything made by valve.

[FaTony]

Scorpio, STOP! Are u talking about making invisible sides nodraw? You don't need it.

[bob+M|M+]

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Originally Posted by ScorpioUprising

The blocks I was making were all fully textured, and I tried to make numerous tunnels and pathways through the main block, creating a multitude of seperate shapes with all six sides textured.

if you decide to make more tunnels in the future, I suggest working in block shapes and use func_detail or displacements for diagonals and curves, since these things will not effect visibility and lessen compile time.