Can I make a room into func_detail for better performance?

#1 · May 25, 2011, 12:25 pm

No, I'm not talking about sealing the room with func_detail.

But if I want to follow the standard Portal/Portal 2 theme with a vast amount of different sized squared tiles, I have to cut some of my walls, ceilings and floors into a lot of brushes. Some of my rooms are made up of 10 or more brushes per wall, making for a total of 60+ world brushes per room. Something tells me this is really bad performance-wise and thus the question, can I make such a room into a single func_detail instead and just seal it up into a box?

Example:

Or is there some other way I could go about this without making the poly count go mad?

#2 · May 25, 2011, 2:10 pm

Read this.

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#3 · May 25, 2011, 4:56 pm

Thanks, I'll be sure to read it.