Its recommended to use tool_pro? Because, it says that you kill the tag limit, but many people says that is bad for your computer?! Its that true? :S

The map will randomly exemption, if you bypass the tag limit.

What will it be exempt from?
XD
lol, you know what he means though.
Edited by eliteslasher on Mar 22, 2011 at 02:01 AM

lol

not bad for your computer or anything else it just causes your map to exception (spelling win)
sometimes

So... My map overpass the tag limit?

Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\las_sirenas\las_sirenas have no bac
ground sound or sound environment.
culling uncompressed model vertices...done
culling uncompressed structure bsp vertices...done
culling uncompressed model animation data...done
building predicted resources for structures...done
structure bsp 'levels\las_sirenas\las_sirenas' is 3.04M
tag headers and names are 0.27M
streaming model vertex and index buffers...done
streaming tags.................................done
writing vertex and index buffers...done 11.60M
writing tags...done (3360 tags for 10.56M)
total tag size is 13.59M (9.41M free)
compressing 72.80M...done
successfully built cache file.
Cache pack file bitmaps hits: 788 for 34.36M
Cache pack file bitmaps adds/misses: 168 for 19.97M
Cache pack file sounds hits: 652 for 10.48M
Cache pack file sounds adds/misses: 1524 for 28.41M
Cache pack file loc hits: 104 for 0.22M
Cache pack file loc adds/misses: 0 for 0.00M

It will have exceptions my map?
Edited by Georgespartan01 on Mar 22, 2011 at 05:48 PM

Don't use tool pro unless your map size passes over 128mb in size or if you are compiling a UI map file.

(thanks slappy)
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Mar 22, 2011 at 08:39 PM

Or he's doing a ui?

This is the only part of your statement that people should follow. The tag limit is there for a reason. If you go over it the game will not run the map properly since it is the GAME not Tool that has the limit. Tool just makes sure you stay within the limit that the game will support.

Tool Pro still has its uses. Like if you have to many tags in your tag folder you can use Tool Pro to compile models and sounds.

Wow, I never knew that, are you serious?

EDIT:
It won't have any differences from the original tool compilation will it?
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Mar 26, 2011 at 03:35 PM

Yes
No

In my experience, the purpose of tool pro isn't to compile maps that are over the tagsize limit in order to play them; doing so would cause it to exception usually upon startup, and it is only useful when you want to compile a map above the tagsize limit, then open it up in HEK+ so you can search for and weed out redundant or unnecessary tags and such

Tool pro has error checking hacked out of the program which is stupid since the error checking like tag size limit is required for the game engine to safely run the map cache file for for the complier. What good is a complied map that can't run in the game engine?

Again, some of the limits can by bypassed up to some level without problem. As far as my tests go, bypassing tag limit Never worked. On the other end, using tool_pro to compile maps with a bigger cache size is ''often'' fine. You'll have to test, i'd say 1/4 maps i compiled to be ''bigger'' exceptionned and the 3/4th worked seamlessly.