Engine Limits

Please add your engine's limits here.

This page is based on aguirRe's http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/readmegl.txt with kind permission. Brainstorm about what other limits might be interesting (if any) is welcome on the Talk page.

TODO

• Link to engines page
• Nicer table look

* means: Check engine's readme for comments and details

BSP

	Clipnodes	Faces	Lightmaps	Marksurfaces	Nodes	Planes	Static entities	Surface extents	Texinfo	Visleafs	Vis/light data
Normal limit	32k	32k	64	32k	32k	32k	128	512/256	32k	8k	heapsize
aguirRe's	~64k*	64k	1024	64k	~32-64k*	>32k	256	>512/256	>32k	32k	2048M*

MDL

	Mesh commands	Mesh strips	Skin height	Triangles	Vertices
Normal limit	8192	128	480	2048	1024/2000
aguirRe's	16384	256	1024	4096	4096/3984

Sounds

	Channels	Dynamic channels
Normal limit	128	8
aguirRe's	516	128

Client/Server

	Clients	Packet size	Progs globals	Runaway loop, QC	Signon buffer size	Stack size, QC	Static client message
Normal limit	16	1k	32k	100000	~8k	32	1024
aguirRe's	64	~64k	64k	5000000	~64k	256	8192

Graphics

	Beams	Console background	Far clip distance	GL textures	Temporary entities	Texture size	Texture size, sky	Video modes	Visible edicts	WinQ bmodel edges	WinQ bmodel vertices
Normal limit	24	640x480/320x200	4096	1024	64	1200k	=256x128	30	256	1000	500
aguirRe's	256	1024M*	16384	2048*	512	1024M*	any*	600	4096	3000	1000

Misc.

	Command/script buffer	Console buffer size	Edicts	Efrags	File handles	Models, precached	Mods, unique	Sounds, precached	Sounds, unique	Temporary files	Zone size, default
Normal limit	8k	16k	600	640	10	256	512	256	512	heapsize	48k
aguirRe's	64k	256k	4096	2048	100	1024	2048	1024*	2560	1024M*	320k