Portals

[§partan 8]

Just wondering do I really need to add alot more portals?
When I build the portals in tool I have no errors.
Heres what they look like now.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1949/portals1kh5.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=portals1kh5.jpg)

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/6172/portals2br2.th.jpg (http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=portals2br2.jpg)

The white lines are the portals.

[itszutak]

It looks like it's handling too many verts. I'd reccomend making the cliffs less detailed, even though it may look like crap. Also, try spacing out the forerunner buildings a bit more and removing as much as you can.

[SuperSunny]

Look at other maps and see how the portals are designed. Keep them, as they are incredibly helpful in making sure people only see regions of the map at a time, dramatically improving FPS. If I didn't add portals to my latest map, it would be running 10-20 FPS constantly. The game works much better with them.

There is a key strategy to placing them, a lot of them.

[§partan 8]

The whole map is 29,552 polys. 18,157 vertices. The cliff has 11,256 polys. 6,722 vertices.

I'll try adding alot more portals. If it doesn't help much, then I guess I will reduse the polys on the cliffs. Thanks for the help.

Heres some wireframe renders.

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/9369/wire1cg0.th.jpg (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wire1cg0.jpg)

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/6759/wire2fz2.th.jpg (http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wire2fz2.jpg)

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7333/wire3oe6.th.jpg (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wire3oe6.jpg)

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4450/wire4ys4.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wire4ys4.jpg)

[MMFSdjw]

Portals do not have to be vertical only.
Remember that it will stop rendering what is in the portal only when the entire portal is out of view. exact portals are much more strict on these point and much more effective so use them where ever you can. Any interiors should use exact portals.
Always pay attention to line of sight and place the portals accordingly.