 Sittin' And Wishin' And Hopin' And Prayin' #22363 posted by Mike Woodham on 2013/03/01 19:32:23
Don't you just love a full vis. I start it going and it says 80 hours to go. That's OK, I've got time. I go out, come back, go to bed, get up, go out, come back, got to bed (yawn), lose track of time and think, it must be nearly done now. I go in (it has its own room in the house) and it says, "67 hours done only 133 hours left".
Don't you just love a full vis!
Yeah #22364 posted by RickyT33 on 2013/03/01 19:58:07 Thank god for WVis and autosave
#22365 posted by negke on 2013/03/01 20:40:21 Because the remaining time is only a rough estimation based on how long the last few portals took to compute. The first and major part of the map will always go fast, but towards the end things take exponentially longer. Worst thing one can do during a long fullvis is conscously wait for it to finish...
Where's That Nonenity Guy& #22366 posted by spy on 2013/03/02 13:04:03 i miss him
please comeback
Nonenity #22367 posted by spy on 2013/03/02 13:10:07 ofcoarse
What A Shame #22368 posted by spy on 2013/03/02 13:12:25 i should be banned from its thread,
or just moved to the drunk thread? dammit
#22369 posted by spy on 2013/03/02 13:14:14 nonentity!!!
#22371 posted by - on 2013/03/03 00:31:55 you mean GrindSpire?
Que Sera, Sera; Whatever Will Be, Will Be #22373 posted by Mike Woodham on 2013/03/05 12:57:58
I was walking past FulVis's room this morning and, thinking that I heard some noise or other, popped in to say hello. FullVis is telling me that it has completed 153 hours and still has 155 hours to go (and 83% complete?), so piss-off and stop being so impatient.
Bloody impertinent slob: I slammed the door in a huff, I can tell you. I might go back in again at the weekend if I haven't anythiing better to do ;)
LOL #22374 posted by Shambler on 2013/03/05 13:09:08
Smab Go map, you have no excuse now since TrenchBroom is so easy to set up and use. SILENCE! DO IT!
#22376 posted by JneeraZ on 2013/03/05 13:45:08 Mike - Are you using a multithreaded VIS? Because, damn, really...
Willem #22377 posted by Mike Woodham on 2013/03/05 14:28:49
I am not sure which vis I am using but it is on a Pentium4 (and I can't stop now)
The Dangers Of Swears #22378 posted by ijed on 2013/03/05 14:39:51
#22379 posted by JneeraZ on 2013/03/05 15:33:45 Pentium4? OK, well it's irrelevant anyway...
Don't Be Such A Willem! #22380 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/05 15:51:57 Mike, vis time might be easily cut in 4 or 8 on a modern processor with WVis or tyrann's new release! Add the higher frequency to that and your map should be VISed within a day.
So, who wants to show off his hardware? I only have a i5.
#22381 posted by gb on 2013/03/05 19:27:02
I find myself agreeing with Spirit here, find someone who has a fast multicore machine and a threaded vis program and ask them! Detail brushes might help :-p
Some Day When My Cryin's Done... #22382 posted by Mike Woodham on 2013/03/05 19:36:27
...I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun.
Strange as it may seem, this time 'thing' is not an issue for me - I actually think it is quite funny. Besides, I have a very nice 17" HP i7 'dogs bollox' laptop that I do all my mapping, photomanip and serious spreadsheet work on. It is fast and no doubt that it could run FullVis in the background using a couple or more cores and be quicker than my old P4.
But then I wouldn't have anything to talk to you guys about...
#22383 posted by JneeraZ on 2013/03/05 19:47:08 I've considered picking up a cheapo laptop and doing all my Quake mapping on there. You can get something halfway decent for, like, $400 ... it's amazing.
Hang In There, Woody! #22384 posted by negke on 2013/03/05 19:57:37 I found mapping on a laptop to suck big time, not my thing...
#22385 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/05 20:00:22 You can restrict vis to not use all your cores! Also at least on Linux I noticed no real impact on using the PC for the usual browsing, music, movies while running a full vis with all cores.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow #22386 posted by Mike Woodham on 2013/03/07 20:52:28
I think think FullVis is after a record: 212 hours gone and 176 to go.
JPL, you had some big ol' maps; what was your record time?
Noone's tried using one of the high-cpu EC2 instance to compile maps yet?
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