hammer++ portalflow not compiling

[ancient bolt]

so im trying to compile my P2 map, but uh, its always stopping at the portalflow file.

At the bottom of compile it shows the portalflow not loading

honestly the compiling though has been really slow, even for the other stuff. maybe this is part of it

[low hawk]

you have microbrushes

[ancient bolt]

what are those

oh wait, small brushes

really small brushes

will it help if i group them together?

[trail sonnet]

they need to be deleted

[low hawk]

you must get rid of them

anything you need microbrushes for should really be a model instead

otherwise you'll have to settle for lower detail

[ancient bolt]

i was trying to make a hole for a tube model to go through

[low hawk]

it doesn't have to be that precise

[ancient bolt]

oh

[ancient bolt]

its still happening and i dont know why

[low hawk]

do you still get microbrush messages

[ancient bolt]

nope

[low hawk]

so it still just crashes during portalflow

[ancient bolt]

yup

well no it doesnt crash

it just takes around 10 minutes for a dot to appear

[low hawk]

that just means you have a lot of visleaves and a very wide open map

so portalflow is going to take extremely long

[ancient bolt]

oh

is there anyway to mkae the portalflow not take a day to compile

[low hawk]

func_viscluster helps speed that up
but make sure you don't have a hollow brush skybox or something

[ancient bolt]

yuh oh

that's not very good

oh well

i'll fix it later

[low hawk]

it just can't cross the water

another thing is func_detail

a bunch of small brushes that are left as world brushes can causes tons of unecessary visleaf cuts