Call of Duty 5: Engine Limitation

Some Limits found in the CoD5 and CoD4 engines

• 4096 Dvars
• 63+1 Dvar name characters shown in console, but the names can be longer
• 2048 Fx (simultaneously playing)
• 400 Fx Asset limit (at least CoD5)
• 2048 Material assets (see here for fix)
• 1024 ? Model assets (is for cod4, seems higher for codwaw)
• 128 Tags (Joints) in MP
• 31 HUD Elements (Client)
• 1600 Sounds

• Radiant - 3d view:
  "Out of Radiant meshes (262144)"
• Test map, brushes: 102,631 (138,752)
  97.8 MB mapfile

BSP limits

(approx.), calculated using the limit% supplied by cod4map.exe -info

• models: 4096
• materials: 1024 (1223)
• brushes: 32,768 (32765)
• brushsides: 655,360? (655368)
• planes: 65,536 (65544)
• entdata: 16,777,216 byte / 16 MiB (16773218)
• nodes: 32,768 (32773)
• leafs: 32,768 (32768)
• leafbrushes: 262,144 (262150)
• leafsurfaces: ?
• collisionverts: 65,536 (65542)
• collisiontris: 131,072 (131080)
• collisionedgewalk: ? (393,026)
• collisionborders: 32,768 (32775)
• collisionparts: 131,072 (131181)
• collisionaabbs: 262,144 (262654)
• layered verts: 524,288 (524317)
• layered data: 1,048,576? (1284080)
• simple verts: 524,288? (589834)
• layered indexes: ? (992,147)
• simple indexes: 1,048,576? (1179581)
• layered tri soups: 32,768 (32771)
• simple tri soups: 32,768 (32766)
• lightmaps: 31
• light grid header: ?
• light grid rows: 4096 (4235)
• light grid points: 1,048,576 (1048545)
• light grid colors: ? (671,063)

• visibility: ?
• portalverts: 16,384 (16380)
• layered aabbtrees: 32,768 (32791)
• simple aabbtrees: 32,768 (32738)
• cells: 1024
• portals: 2048
• cullgroups: ?
• cullgroupindexes: ?
• reflection_probes: 255
• primary lights: 255
• light regions: 255
• light region hulls: 2048 (2045)
• light region axes: 16,384? (16000)
• paths: ? (1666)