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 

Reason #18460 why I've never played that sodding game. 

 

Reminded me of that stealing in skyrim video though, which made me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5aUdijAN8 

Another Skyrim video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=rQliT71-ooU&NR=1 

So, FullVis finally gave up taunting me and gave birth after 280h 53m. All those threats of 400+ hours were just bluff. Tosser!

And, you know what? It doesn't look or feel any better on the i7 laptop than the QuickVis version.

I'll push it out some time next week (with reservations, provisos, and a general lack of satisfaction (I ain't got no...) 

Hello.

Oh look, it's all the people from the other thread. All these familiar faces--but yet not so familiar quite yet since I've never been here before. 

who are you? 

who are you? 

unflagging vondur's spam post because i think there is some penalty for accounts or IP addresses that have spam posts linked to them, can't remember exactly...

I guess i need to fix this double post but that just cropped up. I thought it was fixed like 10 years ago. 

Not sure. To me, it doesn't look like a double post, because the dates are quite different. Also, I noticed his first post and it was only 1 post. Several minutes later, it's a second one now. 

Hence the time difference. 

i refreshed and it doubled. slime, add ajax tech here so we don't need to refresh ;) 

Lol, I really made an ass of myself with the refresh thing last week :P 

I watched (well, tried to watch) the Youtube videss of your Q3A mod/map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRW3XKfTnHI

It looks really, really bad. Box rooms with box room bot battles. I'm surprised this was released this decade. 

Shambler, I intentionally built it that way.

In old megaman games, you fight against bot in box room. Yes? Well, that's what I tried to follow with this map.

I'm sorry the boxiness bothers you.