.map build process

[dreadlorde]

[Spirit]

[Spike]

[dreadlorde]

Thanks for the info, Spirit and Spike. I also remembered to check the quake wiki at quakedev about 5 minutes after posting my original post.

Spirit: the map can be found at .

[Spirit]

That is a spiral stair case of doom. Try to stay on a bigger grid, do not use some rotate function in your editor but place clean brushes manually. Also the big open space around it makes it worse.

[dreadlorde]

[Spirit]

[negke]

[dreadlorde]

[Spike]

[Baker]

[Spike]

[mh]

I wouldn't worry too much about big executables - anyone who frets over 1.3MB vs 500KB mustn't have any real problems in their life I say - but the underuse of multicore capabilities in the majority of apps is an unfortunate but inevitable consequence of the fact that current multithread APIs are crap.

I predict that whichever OS wins the next round of the war will be the one that gets a really good multithread API first (i.e. one usable by mere mortals without having to worry about arcane terminology, deadlocks, race conditions, etc).

Of course Intel or AMD could surprise us nicely by coming up with a CPU architecture that distributes workload among multiple cores automatically for you, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.

[Baker]

[metlslime]