I added 2 elevators in me map and all of a sudden some faces did go invisble like the side of the elevator and some buttons which operate the elevators and even on the other side of the map some glass walls are going invisible.

So I tried removing the elevators but the errors remain.

I'm doing a full compile with the batch compiler and also have the latest 13p compile tools. Also I see no errors in the hammer check or in the compile log.

WTH is going on

known bug when you use xp-cageys compile tools, that have higher limits (especially max_map_plane limit) without using opt_plns.exe on the compiled map to cut off unused planes.
Without cutting off unused extra planes you hit the hl engine limit wich causes this error, and later makes hl just crash on loading the map.

Were can I get this exe I max out the hl capiblities a lot =/

Hibame, XP-cageys tools can be downloaded here. They don't just magically fix overly complex maps, but can help in some instances.

Kouji San, when you add "-chart" to your hlrad command line, are there any values that are nearly full (>95%)?

i have the same problem with my map.... but not only on the elevator... it affects only solid entities(like glass/elevator/etc), not solid brushes(like anything else :o ).
well... ill give opt_plns.exe a try.. hope it helps.
replacing the solid entities is no solution for this problem, i already tried that.
i also tried to replace the 2 .dll files (MSVCP70.DLL and msvcr70.dll) but that was no solution, too :/

hopefully opt_plns.exe will help *presses-thumbs*

Full compile chart:

Alot if faces get discarded when doing the compile. Or should be discarded, but arn't, so the opt_plns tool removes the unwanted planes so to speak, i think these are like ones touching the void, touching another brush, etc, so your actual amount of planes is way less then what the compile tools listed, hence the need for cageys opt tool.

Well Cagey I'm just glad we have you as our mapping tools messiah...

You make the impossible possible