Longest Map Compile Time: What's yours?

[Dementei]

My longest time to ever compile a map was about 1 hour. I guess nothing too major, but still took a long time as it was some what of a small map, but was quite detailed. I'm just wondering what have you guys came to? I'm quite curious Also my CPU isn't too great: AMD Athlon x2 2.8Ghz

Tell me whatcha got
(Also any hints/links to direct to faster compile time would be helpful.)

[Jike]

My longest compile was about 30 minutes. After thirty minutes of working on PortalFlow I went on Interlopers, got help and cancelled lol.

My seriously longest compile was 6 minutes maybe. For -both and not -final.

[Kremator]

Longest compile time was roughly 6 hours and 10-20 minutes. Yep, I was fucking hardcore - made all the tiles into func_physbox and did explosions that slowed my FPS down to a crawl. I was amazed HL2 didnt crash just then - this was back in 2005 when I just started experimenting with Source tho.

[Megadude]

Why have you made a topic about this when there is already one on these forums? Use the search box next time

[Major Banter]

Why have you made a topic about this when there is already one on these forums? Use the search box next time

I think in this case that would be necrobumping.

My personal worst is infinite. It never finished.

Remember kids, when learning to use Hammer find out about func_detail.

[MáØ]

Well the map I posted for map battle 43 was a couple hours or something. I think I pulled a couple longer ones tho... max hammer size gmod maps = long ass compiles.

[Dementei]

Lol oh, yea forgot to Search.
Those are some long compile times, lmao.
Do AREAPORTALs help out with compiling?
Also the map that took an hour got to 20mb, maybe I should change the thread to What's your largest map ever. (In MB)

[pk_hunter]

haha. Wow.

Clearly you folks never mapped for HL1 on a pentium 3.
Overnight compiles were commonplace.

[Major Banter]

Where they

OVER NINE-THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND?

[Biological-Bum]

My first map took about 12+ hours. That was before I learned about func_detail.

[bouncy_ninja]

haha. Wow.

Clearly you folks never mapped for HL1 on a pentium 3.
Overnight compiles were commonplace.

Yep I've been there, back in the day when encoding div-x was like 10secs of time for 1 sec of video lol.

[Spike]

For a final release around 4 minutes. Quad Cores FTW

[RefaelBA]

Some years ago:
Crappy CPU + Not Knowing Func_Detail = The Neverending Compile

[Vilham]

about 20 hours, before i started to optimize the map for fps and compiling.

[skoften]

in 2005 i made a map for wolfenstein that took 3hours to compile
it was worser than fpsbanana