VRAD++

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VRAD++

Developer(s)

ficool2

Initial release

Jul 10, 2025

Stable release

Oct 26, 2025

Operating system

Type

Map compiler

Target engine(s)

Distribution

Freeware

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VRAD++ is a community-made modification of Source's VRAD developed by ficool2.

Differences

• Scales up to 64 threads
• Small performance optimizations
• Shared LDR/HDR compiling
• Bypassed "numplanes + fakeplanes >= MAX_MAP_PLANES" limit
• Added AppID mounting in gameinfo.txt
• Added ambient occlusion baking
• Added -reflectivityscale
• Added -worldtextureshadows
• Added -translucentshadows
• Improved vertex lighting for props
• Fixed maps with more than 13 million triangles taking a very, very long time to compile
• Redundant vertex lighting is skipped for lightmapped props (saves compile time and file size)
• .dx90.vtx data is loaded for vertex lighting instead of .dx80.vtx
• Broken vertex data for props will now be skipped over when compiling
• Fixed bug where broken vertex data in props skipped vertex lighting for other props
• Named or styled lights are now sorted by brightness priority for faces
• Added -scale, -ambient, -dlight, -sky, -notexscale, -coring debug options
• Unlimited texlight support in .rad files
• Comments in .rad files are now skipped
• Cleaned up formatting of some messages and warnings

Supported games

VRAD++ is currently available for all games on Team Fortress 2 branch.

External links

• Download