.vmf bloating?

[Limpet]

Anyone know what causes a 1.5 mb vmf to go to 68.5 mb?
I tried doing a little carving in my map and then hammer became unresponsive. I left it alone for 30 minutes came back and hammer was responding but when I tried doing anything I got a lot of delay. It took about 20 seconds to save the map and when I tried loading it back up it took roughly an hour. I tried selecting the brushes I just carved and I am still waiting for hammer to respond again. Hammer has 90-99% cpu usage and 341,040 k mem usage while Im waiting.
Anyone ever get this before?

 

[haireola]

What did you try to carve? Carving a non-rectangular brush can result in a LOT of mangled up brushes...

Also, since the latest update, my Hammer has been acting very funny.. spontaneously shut itself down when I attempted to change a parent property on an entity, refuses to let me select a couple entities that were placed on the same spot, etc.

 

[Limpet]

I tried to carve a spot for a window, matching a texture. What i did was i grouped 6 or some boxes and used them to carve out of a wall, and it took hammer a long time to do this. I opened up the vmf in notepad hoping to find the brushes that would make up that wall and then I'd delete it but everything looks the same in there. It takes notepad a little less time open the vmf than hammer does. and like i said, thats a long time

 

[haireola]

Hmm... I don't know about using grouped brushes to carve.. but I do know that carving is one of the deadliest of sins... it's in the commandments of mapping (yes, yes, they exist!): Thou shalt not carve, lest a plague befall thine house

 

[poseyjmac]

carving isn't inherently wrong if used correctly. but if you are carving with grouped brushes, thats dangerous territory

 

[HL2W-omega552003]

You have a massive leak that was not caught by vis.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

VIS doesn't catch leaks, BSP does.

He wasn't compiling the map, this was during editing. A leak wouldn't do anything to Hammer.

 

[Limpet]

So does anyone know of a program that can open it up as text really fast? I guess what I'll have to do is manually take out the brushes. I have a good idea where they are becuase I can open an older vmf of the map and compare the coordinates.
Notepad takes a long time, using the command prompt its much faser but only views the first 60,000 or so lines, and there are much more lines than that.

lol now I know not to carve using a group :rolling:

 

[haireola]

UltraEdit, download here: http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1

It also supports regular expressions, if you are familiar with those... you can do an incredibly fast search & replace or search & remove.

 

[Limpet]

Wow, thats a wonderful program
Much thanks to ya

 

[Limpet]

Woohoo fixed it.
Hammer put in an insane amount of brushes covered in nodraw so I just went in there an deleted them all.
Thanks for the help guys

 

[haireola]

No prob