[hellmoss]

 410. 410   : models/jinx/xen_plant8.mdl    310.68K    00000000 FATALIFMISSING
 411. 411   : *248                          0.00K      00000000 FATALIFMISSING
 412. 412   : *249                          0.00K      00000000 FATALIFMISSING
 413. 413   : *250                          0.00K      00000000 FATALIFMISSING
 414. 414   : *251                          0.00K      00000000 FATALIFMISSING
 415. 415   : *252                          0.00K      00000000 FATALIFMISSING
 416. 416   : *253                          0.00K      00000000 FATALIFMISSING
 417. 417   : *254                          0.00K      00000000 FATALIFMISSING

Hello,

some maps (e.g. ts_kissmeyerbasic) in The Specialists 3.0 mod includes hundreds of these asterisk empty resources (this also happens in CS 1.6 but with far fewer empty resources, or at least I haven't come across a map that has this many).

How would I be able to unprecache these or at least identify them to see what can be done?
How are these valid resources if their size is 0?

I suspect this comes from the BSP.

[fysiks]

IIRC, these are brush entities and are part of the compiled map. Not sure if it's possible to make them non-entity brushes (which I suspect might remove them from the precache list since they would then be a simple brush aka part of the geometry). Would probably need someone with good map making experience to know how it might work.

One thing I might suggest trying, try to remove the entity from the entity list with something like BSPEdit (make sure that you don't test this on a public server so that people don't download a corrupted map).

[hellmoss]

Figured as much, thanks for the feedback!