Current Bottlenecks

[elfprince13]

[KermMartian]

I understand what you're saying in that post, since I'm used to reading gprof output, but I think other people would be very confused by that %Time column.
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[elfprince13]

[Sigfig]

Which is a great idea, and the DTS rendering greatly needed to be updated.

However in most of my experience features like that are add and then optimized.
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[elfprince13]

In this case I'm optimizing first so I have to do less structural reorganization later.
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[KermMartian]

[elfprince13]

I'm sure we will, but I don't want to implement the entire LDraw system with vertex arrays and then do a rendering rewrite to get it to play nice with VBOs (which will be necessary to get anything like the performance we want).
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[Sigfig]

I guess you're right, working with the LDraw library and custom ldraw files isn't something you could switch over easily.
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[elfprince13]

TSSkinMeshes are presumably the only meshes that will need to be configured for DYNAMIC or STREAM usage (I'm guessing that DYNAMIC will be more efficient since it will prevent constant reallocations) when I begin writing the VBO code. Everything else should be okay as STATIC. Though...this evaluation is based solely on the animation code, and may change once I take a look at how detail levels work, I'm anticipating that to be a question of using IndexBuffers, and not with how the usage flags are configured. What I'd *really* like to figure out is if I can use the TextureManager to batch rendering even more efficiently by minimizing state changes related to texture swapping.

LDraw poly-rendering code will inherit from the Standard or Sorted mesh classes, so this is all a plus.

I haven't yet decided whether the brick class will inherit from SceneObject or GameBaseObject. I need to investigate the finer details of networking a little more before I make that decision.
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[elfprince13]

In my purely subjective test, camera movement was smooth in TGEA, even with >2000 barrels on screen. This bodes well for my current theory that switching to VBOs will drastically improve framerates in the Cemetech Towers scenario.
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[Jimmg]

After LDraw you should implement an octree much like Retails for hiding hidden faces.

[KermMartian]

[Jimmg]

[elfprince13]

[CyberPrime]

Hopefully after we have LDraw fully implemented more coders will join the project and be able to tackle those bigger things.

[elrunethe2nd]

[elfprince13]

The LDraw community has been around since the DOS days and has a very mature audience comparatively speaking. I'm sure there are some high caliber coders who subscribe to those listservs.
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[swivelgames]

Definitely. I'm sure it won't be too hard to find a few coders out there willing to dedicate their time to a side project like this

[Lucas W]

What if no one does?

[elrunethe2nd]