I'm making a map that will have many buildings and shacks. Now, it'll be easier for me to add the few types of buildings as scenery items rather than geometry (because I need multiple instances of them). Apparently however this causes lag, or something? They are stationary buildings, and i'm estimating a total of 30 buildings of 4 different types.

So, do the pros outweigh the cons as to making these scenery items rather than part of the map geometry?

Pros/Cons much appreciated.

Pros- much simpler to add into the map

Cons- it will lag like hell on most computers especially with that many scenery objects

I suggest you add them into the geometry of the map.

buildings and bases should always be BSP, there really isnt' an advantage for bases and bulidings for scenery. BSP is always better.

Also placement of spawns, weapons, ect on scenery is a pain in the butt.

I guess i could do most of the simple buildings (the ones that aren't accessible and are relatively simple in geometry) by extruding faces to look like simple rectangular shacks and just texture them from there.


Well, this is what betas are for :p

You mean building the structures out of the BSP? For more complex stuff it's best to model then entire building and then attatch to the BSP, i would not build it out of the bsp unless it's super super simple. But i take it you are going to do more advanced stuff.