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by **Blink** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:55 am

There has been a small update for the Custom Source Tools:

"As a reward I have optimised CST 1.0 Final. The code runs about 2% faster over all. I have also added a small plane count increase for the Dystopia Team, and there issues with the v tools, on dys_vaccine."

I highly recommend these tools, get them here.

by **mike-o** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:17 pm

So, what exactly does this do? There's not much about it on their site except compile time comparisons for hl1.

by **Puppet_That_Kills** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:41 pm

Yea, WTF are these things for? There's no fuc***g point of a custom compile tool because hammer has one!

I just don't see the point to all this.

Puppet

by **Shifty31** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:43 pm

Compiles my maps way faster than the source compile tools and it has the interlopers error page in it

Shifty

by **Puppet_That_Kills** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:45 pm

So it's only a custom compile tool? Like I said, pointless. I'm scared shitless using custom tools becuse I don't trust them, they could screw up the map! And they're not made by a company PAID to make games, those are who I trust.

Puppet

by **Blink** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:02 pm

They are more memory and resource efficent and diagnose errors better

by **Puppet_That_Kills** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:05 pm

Allright, you've convinced me!

I'll give it a try, since my maps are so full of errors that need diagnosing! :oops:

Puppet

by **Blink** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:10 pm

You can always switch back to the valve ones, they don't overwrite them.

by **wiggle987** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:09 pm

Yeah I use CST, makes compile times much quicker.

by **mike-o** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:14 pm

I only use custom compile tools for HL1, i dont see the need to use them for hl2.

by **BaRRaKID** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:51 pm

the reason its the same. Theres always space to improve stuff, and even tough Valve did a good job with the compile tools, amckern puched them further and made them more eficient. Even a 2% reduction on compile times makes ithe diference on big maps.

by **YokaI** on Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:44 pm

I didnt even know this was out for source yet 0,o dl ing

by **amckern** on Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:06 am

there is a alot that has changed, such as better looking lights (on hard default texture lights) - much better vis (now 12 % faster) - better error finding, and the first real thing that benifits all, is a plane increase

Sorry i did not post before, but i sent the news email to about 70 news sites (way to much to catch up on)

by **ZenMunky** on Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:03 am

Quality. Excellent job. I put them on my hammer yesterday and noted my main WIP went for 25mins at normal from a full compile to just over 20mins...

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