Access Violation when compiling model??

[TheDanishMaster]

Hi.

I'm trying to find out how high poly count the 2009 Source engine can handle. So far my highest poly count on a working model is around 47k. Which is much higher than what I expected. Anyways..
Im pushing it to the max and trying to compile a 76k poly model. But when I compile I get a Access Violation error when working on the Reference SMD. So does someone know the max poly count Source can handle. Because I think its happening because of the poly count. But what do you guys think?

[stoopdapoop]

that's the best I got. I would have gone higher, but any higher subdivision would cause far too many polygons to compile and I wanted all the polygons in the model to be in the same smoothing group.

But I think you're limited to 65536 vertices (my guess is that they're indexed with two bytes). 21,845 triangles as a worst case with no triangle banding, or about 65533 triangles if the model is all 1 band.

about your problem, 76K is higher than 65.5K, so I'm guessing the polycount is the issue.

[Kosire]

I remember if you compile a model and it has too many vertices in it and you try to load it in hammer a popup will say something along the lines of this

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"Too many verts for a dynamic buffer (26791>24576) Tell a programmer to up VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE."

and then hammer will close.

[TheDanishMaster]

I remember if you compile a model and it has too many vertices in it and you try to load it in hammer a popup will say something along the lines of this

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"Too many verts for a dynamic buffer (26791>24576) Tell a programmer to up VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE."

and then hammer will close.

Thats.... thats exactly whats happening now.. Stupid hammer... So I guess ppl will have to drive my low quality Golf with.. Though heres sum pics anyways





R.I.P Golfie :/

[Kosire]

Well you can always make 3 models like 1 model for wheels, 1 for windows and 1 for the body that way you can have a much higher polycount on each model But if it's for a driveable vehicle it prob. has to be 1 single model.

[Duke Nukem]

isn't that the reason why valve splits their cinematic physics into several models??

[LordDz]

Well you can always make 3 models like 1 model for wheels, 1 for windows and 1 for the body that way you can have a much higher polycount on each model But if it's for a driveable vehicle it prob. has to be 1 single model.

So that's why the glass in L4D cars are made of another model.

[Kosire]

Well you can always make 3 models like 1 model for wheels, 1 for windows and 1 for the body that way you can have a much higher polycount on each model But if it's for a driveable vehicle it prob. has to be 1 single model.

So that's why the glass in L4D cars are made of another model.

Yep and the fact that on the glass model they use surfaceprop glass instead of metal

[TheDanishMaster]

I was kinda hoping it was possible to split it up.. But as mentioned earlier its a problem when its driveable :/

So I guess ill have to stick with the low quality interior.

[Gary]

You could still spit it up, take the non-animated parts, make them a separate model then attach that(in either code or Hammer)...

[boing]

i have a similar problem allthough my model has a triangle count of 10000 hammer gives me the error messeage Too many verts for a dynamic buffer (27323>24576) Tell a programmer to up VERTEX_BUFFER_SIZE.
In 3ds max the vertex count is arround 8000, so i think the problem lies within compiling the model

The purple are loose fur planes... if that matters at all

[boing]

To anyone with the same problem: Just make sure you set up your smoothing groups