From: Marc Anthony DeLegge To: ml@qoole.com Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:27:38 -0400 Subject: Re: Entity Limit? CyniC wrote: > > Does anyone know the exact (or close to) number of entities you can > have > in a map? I'm trying to see how sparingly I have to use lights and > spotlights in my map-in-progress. > > -CyniC methinks its 499 entities.. but i could be wrong there... but i DO know that Quake has a 16K limit for entities.. so if its a TF map, which use very complex and largish entities.. you'll have to keep down to minimum.... a trick: if your runnin into problems ... you can create all your _static_ lights (no-switchables!!! and no torches... and not the pulsing lights) and entities with with brushes first then QBSP and light your map at the least... then... delete all your lights in the map and create all your other entities... then compile with QBSP -onlyents... and as long as you dont relight it, your map will keep the lighting!!!... this is because the texture lighting data is stored seperately from the enities data in the BSP file.. so the static light entity data is actually just wasting space =)... if you try this and have problems with this... email me and ill help, Ive successfully done this on lotsa maps mehopes this helps, -- ------------------------------------ . o 0 [ Marc Anthony DeLegge ] 0 o . . o 0 [ marc@samadhi.com ] 0 o . * According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist.