It'd be nice if this limit could be increased. I'm sure the average low-end
machine could handle much more than the high end computers of '96-98.
(Quake1 through Half-Life)
Sniper
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From: "Avatar-X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Yet another svc_bad error message... this one is
weird
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> The HL model limit is 512.
>
> This includes any precached models using PRECACHE_MODEL, and it also
> includes all map-based solid models, like func_walls.
>
> So if you have 400 solid ents (the max) in your map, you can only have
> 112 other precached models in your mod.
>
> -av
>
> botman wrote:
>
> >>What the H-E-double hockey sticks does this mean:
> >>
> >>Host_Error: PF_precache_model_l: 'models/w_ammobox.mdl' overflow
> >>
> >>That ONLY happens when the map runs in multiplayer mode. not in single
> >>player, JUST multiplayer.
> >>
> >>And the other maps run fine, WTF?!?!?!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The Half-Life engine version of this code is very similar to the original
> >Quake engine version (which is available from ftp.idsoftware.com).
Here's
> >the function from the Quake source (from the pr_cmds.c file)...
> >
> >void PF_precache_model (void)
> >{
> > char *s;
> > int i;
> >
> > if (sv.state != ss_loading)
> > PR_RunError ("PF_Precache_*: Precache can only be done in spawn
> >functions");
> >
> > s = G_STRING(OFS_PARM0);
> > G_INT(OFS_RETURN) = G_INT(OFS_PARM0);
> > PR_CheckEmptyString (s);
> >
> > for (i=0 ; i<MAX_MODELS ; i++)
> > {
> > if (!sv.model_precache[i])
> > {
> > sv.model_precache[i] = s;
> > return;
> > }
> > if (!strcmp(sv.model_precache[i], s))
> > return;
> > }
> > PR_RunError ("PF_precache_model: overflow");
> >}
> >
> >...it looks like the engine is going through the list of all the models
that
> >can be precached at one time and trying to find the precached version of
> >this model. When it can't find it, you get that nastygram. Perhaps you
are
> >trying to load too many models at one time. Try reducing the number of
> >models in your MOD.
> >
> >Jeffrey "botman" Broome
> >
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