Zdoom Limitations

How many sectors are too many sectors? Is it dependent upon computer power?

How many things can be displayed at any one time? I seem to remember 64 with vanilla Doom...

Doom Juan said:

How many sectors are too many sectors? Is it dependent upon computer power?

2 147 483 648 sectors is one sector too many. Stay at or below two billion one-hundred-forty-seven million four-hundred-eighty-three thousand six-hundred forty seven sectors. If you find this too constraining, you can split your level into several levels using the hub system. There's some guy who proved that you could have at least 30 000 levels in a single wad, so if you need 64424509440000 sectors, you can do it.

Doom Juan said:

How many things can be displayed at any one time?

All the things in a level can be displayed at once.

Why doesn't Gez have a custom title by now?

Xaser said:

Why doesn't Gez have a custom title by now?

For the same reason that you and I are merely Senior Members.

Now quit your annoying habit of derailing threads. Heh.

ReX said:

For the same reason that you and I are merely Senior Members.

Now quit your annoying habit of derailing threads. Heh.

That sounds like a custom title to me... ;D

schwerpunk said:

That sounds like a custom title to me... ;D

Now "Señor Member", that sounds like a custom title to me.

In answer to the OP, how many sectors or things can be displayed without slowing down gameplay are, indeed, a function of your computer's power. Gez has already indicated that ZDooM's 'limitations', for practical purposes, will likely not be exceeded by any but the most masochistic mapper. Therefore, the limitations you experience will probably be driven by your computer specifications.

ReX said:

Now quit your annoying habit of derailing threads. Heh.

yeah xaser please shut it so the rest of us can continue discussing the matter like CIVILIZED PEOPLE

GOD

I can't help it! It's because of my... uh...

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What's the name of the disorder I'm thinking of again? Uh...


...You guys are mean. :(

Xaser said:

Why doesn't Gez have a custom title by now?

Probably because of one of the following:
a) none of the admins are proficient in pidgeon French
b) a custom title that would truly reflect how clever Gez is is beyond their powers of expression

Never_Again said:

b) a custom title that would truly reflect how clever Gez is is beyond their powers of expression

Gez
The new Sheldon Cooper.

ReX said:

the most masochistic mapper

Seriously, at this point it's not masochism. It's automatism, like using a WadC program to automatically generate stuff. There's no way an actual human is ever going to draw a million sectors in a single map, let alone over two billion...

PrBoom has better performance than Zdoom, so it would allow more everything without slowdown or other problems, but it's really limited compared to Zdoom.

Scypek2 said:

PrBoom has better performance than Zdoom

No.

PrBoom+ has better performances than ZDoom in certain cases, but worse in others. See this thread and pay attention to what Entryway says.