VMPI2 where are you?

[Supraline13]

Hi all, at the first sorry for my bad english 👎

Me and my dev team knowing about the old VMPI system, and we love it like we love s&box.

We’re searching some information about the capacity of the resourcecompiler.exe to use the vmpi_transfer.exe, we try every old command like “-mpi, -vmpi ect…”.

Did the VMPI is implemented to s&box ? If it is how can we use it ?

We’ve note in the custom command line of builder the “-nompi” command, so we hope it’s implemented ! 🙏

Thanks,
Supraline

[Headcrabed]

After looking tor text about vmpi in resourcecompiler.dll(Alyx ver.) I found that VMPI2 is seperately installed and not fully intergrated in SDK. Don't know why.

[Headcrabed]

By the way, I think vmpi is much more important than it was in source 1. All static lighting is baked by ray tracing. Setting higher lightmap resolution is unaffordable for PCs without 32G or higher ram.

[walllable]

What does vmpi do?

[GuewenMorin]

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VMPI

[garrynewman]

I'm 50/50 on vmpi.

On the one hand, having it out there and letting people set up their own compilation farms would make things a ton faster.

On the other hand, maybe all the code could/should be made faster. Maybe it's slow because Valve had vmpi and 500 computers so optimizing it wasn't ever a huge requirement.

It's 2021 and our computers are 1000x faster than when half-life 2 came out, should map compiles be taking 100x longer?

[GuewenMorin]

But on source 2 the size of the maps are larger.

[Supraline13]

So you estimate all the devs has a computers that are 1000x faster ? I don't have so much capacity to drop a lot of money in a faster computer, just a stable computer for the pleasure.

Bring the vmpi give an access to people like us who need to help each other with compilation can take like 2 days with a poor i5.
If we want to make an huge map and put a lot effort on it we need this thing because it can achieve our work.

People like me want to share their creativity and ideas, but without vmpi we lost the motivation.

I don't think it's your projet, i think you cant take your other hand on the other 50/50 and make an accessibility to vmpi, making this is letting people an access to prove their creativity without an incredible computer and not drop a lot of money to adapt their computer to a new game like starting a few years ago.

I believe in s&box, i believe in your team, so i think you can believe on us !

[Destevel]

I also need the VMPI to fill the power of my weak pc.

[Headcrabed]

Not any of us have such good pc. VMPI is still important for users with many low performance pcs but not one strong pc, like me. So please add VMPI2 to s&box garry.😶

[frenchneo]

Me too, I have several pc and I want the vmpi.
@garrynewman