From: "James Matthews" To: Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:48:00 +0900 Subject: Re: Compile program True...but I assumed all of that was calculated in the percentage done variable. :) Perhaps a program can analyse the brushes, light sources, whatever, beforehand (doesn't take too long) and then use that info to display the stuff. Since it takes a little longer for all of that to occur, perhaps you should use a command line switch to allow for that. Anyway, this is competely off topic :)...sorry. If anyone is interested in messing around with that code for the utils I have it... James. ---------- > From: jcaesar@mediaone.net > To: ml@qoole.com > Subject: Re: Compile program > Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 12:47 PM > > Well, it's not quite that simple. For say, QRAD3, the first line takes the > longest amount of time, the third takes the least amount of time. This is > also dependent on how many surfaces you have as light emiting textures vs. > how many light entities you have. On my map, it currently (times are > approx) 17000 secs to do the first line, about 9000, to do the second line, > and around 2000-4000 for the third. Changing lighting options, seem to make > the second line's time differ much more, and the difference in time for the > third line, is even greater (sometimes faster, sometimes slower). > > Unless QRAD knows exactly how many calculations to do (and not all of them > take the same amount of time), QRAD can't make a proper estimate. (I'm also > not taking about the "win" versions of the Q2 utils which have a % bar built > into the program. > > Joel