Longest Map Compile Time: What's yours?

[unnamed]

The first map I made had a big open outside area with detailed cylindrical buildings and no func_details or optimizing. It took all night and most of the next day to compile, and when it was done I got an error and the game crashed.

[3Dnj]

Take 20 hours for my cs_paranoia but "only" 16 with a little more optimization.

Put 400 lights ans a thousand props in your map with -staticproplighting/polys and you win (ep1 rules)

[Unreal_Me]

Hmm, the final compile for the first map I ever made (a surf map) took somewhere around 7 hours on a quad core. Completely lacked any form of optimization, had many lights and complex brushwork, and it was an HDR compile.
Looked sexy though

[Armageddon]

There was already a thread like this, but mine was 8+ hours when I tried to re-compile a HL2 map with water flooding it.

[joe_rogers_11155]

longest compile time I ever had...wow...

must have been...at least 30 seconds. I mean, wow. You wanna talk about BORED. I developed cabin fever and lazy eye just watching the dots appear...

[BattleGrunt]

13 hours. One of my first big maps. It wasn't optimized well and had some complex brushwork.

[no00dylan]

They really amped up the speed on the compiler for L4d2, I'll do all kinds of crazy things on there and it never goes past 10 minutes, while I can do a fairly simple scene in the orange box and it takes me quite awhile.

[Jangalomph]

12 hours.

[Groxkiller585]

12 hours.

What engine you doing that for?

Longest compile my maps have ever taken was 5 minutes (and to prove it wasn't a tiny map here's footage of it: )

[ankhsethamon]

My personal worst is infinite. It never finished.

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

Exactly the same here, lol. TIME = 1/0
Of course: first map, no optimization, big map. In fact I'm still working on it (but now i takes like 20 minutes )

[Gary]

I remember when I discovered func_detail, compiling times and frames rates became almost tripled in speed.

I have yet to let hammer use more then half an hour to compile.

[Sentura]

back in the goldsource days, before anyone had more than 512 mb ram (before even the remote compile system was up), i had one going for 23 hours and then some.

[Ark11]

Longest i've ever had was 3 hours.

[stoopdapoop]

not counting Rad, my final compiles don't ever take more than a few minutes

[pk_hunter]

back in the goldsource days, before anyone had more than 512 mb ram (before even the remote compile system was up), i had one going for 23 hours and then some.

Finally someone else who remembers those days