LM_Tool - A version of tool specifically for speeding up lightmaps

[Shelly Herself 221]

Have you ever been bothered by how long it takes to light a map in CE? This version of tool is optimized to do that exact thing faster!

 

But how? The original version of tool is a debug build. This means that it has a lot of debug checks programmed into it to check performance, to see if code is being executed right, things like that. But that's slow... So, I removed a bunch of them. The speedup is up to 50% in a lot of cases.

Of course, with editing the tool in such a way come precautions. This tool can only do lightmaps, all other commands are disabled, because some of the edited code might be in use in other parts of tool, I don't want to create new never before seen bugs.

 

This video shows the lighting of an indoor map, but this really helps the time it takes for outdoor maps where lightmaps can take days.

 

I should also specify, before anyone asks: The resulting lightmaps are identical. 

 

I hope someone will have some use out of this.

LM_Tool.7z

[DSalimander 213]

Works as advertised. I'm working on something right now that takes an hour in normal Tool, and only about half an hour with this modded Tool. My only complaint is that it's dumping debug info to the Open Sauce debug.txt instead of the normal one.

Edited July 31, 2019 by DSalimander

[EmmanuelCD 57]

I will try it later and post some graphs on the performance

[Kinnet 33]

On 7/31/2019 at 9:11 PM, EmmanuelCD said:

I will try it later and post some graphs on the performance

[VoidsShadow 25]

Does this support OS DLMs?