i should be banned from its thread,

or just moved to the drunk thread? dammit 

nonentity!!! 

you mean GrindSpire? 

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 ;) 

 

Go map, you have no excuse now since TrenchBroom is so easy to set up and use. SILENCE! DO IT! 

Mike - Are you using a multithreaded VIS? Because, damn, really... 

I am not sure which vis I am using but it is on a Pentium4 (and I can't stop now) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnWNvOK5IQ 

Pentium4? OK, well it's irrelevant anyway... 

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. 

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 

...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... 

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. 

I found mapping on a laptop to suck big time, not my thing... 

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. 

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? 

Does it count if you VIS on a terrible computer? That's kind of cheating, isn't it? :) 

All of my previously released maps were built and compiled on that computer, so I won't hear anything bad said about it. 

... and still I don't know if I have to be proud of this... though....

It happened with "Castle of the Dark Ages" ( http://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/cda.html ) ... vis runtime was 1218 hours (you read it correctly: one thousand two hundred and eighteen hours... 50 days and 18 hours...).. I at least won the worl record of patience :P
Note it ran on my current crashed computer (i.e with AMD Athlon 2600+), and it was not a multi-thread vis tool.

I guess same map on other computer with better vis tool could result in half the original runtime 

Well, I think you will be keeping the record for some time.

Last night I went into FullVis and read the riot act. It was all obstinance and slouching, but when I went in this morning, all of a sudden 93% complete and only 33 hours to go. So that told him! 

http://imgur.com/XfZCQ9q