The quality, efficiency, and speed of running gameplay as a result of several factors in the design and structure of the game and its architecture.
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Automated performance testing
I'm wondering if there's anyway of automatically testing the performance of my game on multiple configurations because I know a game runs well on my computer but how do I know how well my game ...
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3answers
188 views
Would I need to develop a multi-threaded game or will a single thread suffice?
So I've been playing around and developing in C++ for a couple years now and have built a very simple C++ game engine for learning purposes. I now want to try and develop a simple 2d, stick figure ...
2
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1answer
37 views
Unity, grass chunk or dynamic batching
In theory would it be faster to render a lot of grass patches that would dynamicly batch or big meshes of combined patches, too big for batching? Rendering chunks should be faster because unity doesn'...
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1answer
100 views
Polymorphism vs cache-friendliness
How can we combine inheritance-based polymorphism with spatial cache friendly data structures? In a simple game engine we usually have some base Entity class which is inherited from to implement the ...
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1answer
111 views
Are there performance benefits to full-screen haze filters?
Some games apply a full-screen filter effect that desaturates picture, causing the colors to be "washed out".
For example, in Zelda: Breath of the Wild:
Someone used Photoshop to remove the filter, ...
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0answers
23 views
Modified sin function vs texture sampling
What would be faster for per vertex wind, sampling noise texture or calculating complicated sin function?
22
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2answers
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How can I reduce the performance impact of rendering trees?
I'm making a low poly stylized kind of game. I have a terrain with some water, and I want lots and lots of trees; I have 10,000 trees mass placed, at the moment. Each tree consists no more than 200 ...
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0answers
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Unity, compute shader groups performance
Is there any performance differece between dispatching (1,1,1) shader with (4096,1,1) groups and (4,4,4) shader with (4,4,4) groups or is this only for a programmer and gpu threads everything in it's ...
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1answer
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Is this Code saving performance ? It is kind of a Occlusion Culling
I wanted to do Occlusion Culling on my Scene but I just get a bunch of Errors like "Couldn't load geometry..." etc. I tried to do like another way but the same thing, the Occlusion Culling just ...
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2answers
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Boost Cache Performance when Storing Objects in a Scene In Managed Languages?
So, for reasons that I won't go into (has to do with my team more so than a good objective reason, unfortunately), I'm building a soft game engine in C# on top of SharpDX, because unfortunately C++ ...
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1answer
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What functional abstraction to use for multi-agent simulation?
this is quite a broad question, touching a few different fields, so let me know if there's a way to narrow it down.
What I would like to know is your opinions on what abstraction to use for my use ...
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1answer
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Too slow for cycle in Pygame
I'm using Pygame for Python 2 and I have the following code:
self.radius = 100
self.light = pygame.Surface((2*self.radius, 2*self.radius), pygame.SRCALPHA)
self.light.fill((0, 0, 0, 0))
pygame.draw....
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Most efficient way to modify character mesh at run time
What is the most efficient way in unity to alter the mesh of a character in this scenario:
When the player pick up an item:
-A part of the mesh should be replaced, for example, the left arm is ...
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Will Unity's terrain work without issues in older phones? [closed]
I am making a city building game and so I need a flat surface to let the players put the buildings on and move them around. I decided to use Unity's terrain as my flat surface ( alternatives?). My ...
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2answers
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How do I make 3d Sprites like Myth did 20 years ago?
The game that Bungie cut it's AAA chops on: Myth: The Fallen Lords. about 20 years old now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth:_The_Fallen_Lords
For the time, it had a pretty revolutionary way of ...
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1answer
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In theory, would an erosion algorithm compute faster on a GPU than CPU?
I'm planning to port an erosion algorithm from CPU to GPU, in theory, will it be faster or would it be better to multi-thread it on the CPU? The algorithm has quite a lot of if statements and loops ...
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1answer
53 views
Unity - Create terrain in Blender?
I am going to make a terrain ( not too big ) for my RTS and I was wondering whether to use Unity's terrain tool or create a terrain in Blender and import it to Unity?..I have been told that Unity's ...
3
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1answer
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What is a good budget ratio for computation time?
What sort of budgets do they put on computation time?
For example, lets say a football game needs to run at 50 frames per second. That means that each frame can only be 20 milliseconds long. How is ...
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Unity has extreme lag while deleting trees from terrain
So I have a terrain with sections of water in it. I just placed a whole bunch of trees in the scene with mass place. However, it spawned trees in the water which I obviously want to remove. But when I ...
0
votes
1answer
54 views
Measure elapsed gpu time of draw call
I'm rendering to a texture via DrawIndexedPrimitive (SharpDx). In some specific situations, the framerate drops significantly when doing this render. The framerate can be improved by rendering to a ...
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2answers
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HPA* Pathfinding, building the hierarchical graph is too slow
So I have a graph, roughly grid shaped, that is about 300*300 nodes large. Even at this size, however, traditional a star takes 20 seconds to run in some cases. So I implemented an HPA* algorithm to ...
0
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0answers
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What's the fastest collision detection (Game Maker)
I want to build a simulator using Game Maker in which there are many (up to hundreds) of obj_Cell, each has a radius of 10, (they don't have sprites, they just draw a circle with radius 10).
Each ...
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1answer
44 views
How to update everything but 1 thing in pygame and python
What I'm doing
So I'm developing a game for my Computer Science final with python & pygame. It's done other then I have to make a main menu. I've been developing it over the last 2 weeks because ...
0
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0answers
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OpenGL Slow Performance
I have started making a 2D game using some rendering code from my 3D game engine but when I try and render a few hundred squares at a time, it starts to slow down.
Average FPS: 44FPS when rendering ~...
0
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1answer
80 views
Best way to draw a textfield in OpenGL, when performance really matters?
I'am creating my own GUI library in LWJGL (opengl for Java).
I already managed in creating buttons and panels, and I've also got the hover and active states of the components implemented. This ...
0
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1answer
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Should chunks be procedurally generated client-side or server-side?
I'm developing a game with a friend that involves a procedurally generated map. My question is... Should the client generate the chunks, or should the client make a request to the server, and the ...
0
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1answer
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What to do with unused vertices?
Imagine yourself a vertex array in OpenGL representing blocks in a platform game.
But some vertices may be not used.
The environment is dynamic, so there always some vertex may suddenly become ...
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0answers
39 views
WebGL build LoadScene() doesn't work
So I have made a game, where a user should click a UI button to load a new scene.
At first, it worked in the editor as it always have, in the desktop build and WebGL build.
However because the ...
0
votes
1answer
56 views
How do I represent blended tiles in a mesh/vertex array?
I recently started making a Terraria clone using the LÖVE library, which is based in OpenGL.
In Terraria, for each tile, there is a large texture with all possible combinations for merging with ...
4
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0answers
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Why do prefabs speed up loading?
I have a scene with a massive terrain. It took a long time to load (approximately 60 seconds) when I pressed play.
I prefabbed it.
Now it only took about 5 seconds to load when I pressed play. Why?...
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1answer
86 views
Performance drawing in Pygame
Relevant background information
I'm developing a game for a high school computer science performance task in python & pygame. I'm using objects and all the code is working well for me.
The game ...
0
votes
2answers
39 views
Build SDL_Surface before blitting it
I have a function in which I'm looping y and x over my array of sprites. That's a lot of loops, and it is very slow; I'd like to improve the performance.
I would like to only have to build the ...
4
votes
1answer
138 views
Optimised server structuration
I've been wondering a lot lately about how to make an optimised server structuration, and i came to the conclusion that i severely lack knowledge on the subject.
I'll be doing this with either C, C++ ...
0
votes
1answer
65 views
How do I manage monster tables and item databases in my Android game?
To learn more about AI during combat, I made a demo in Unity where a player would fight a creature in an arena. I started here because I plan to implement the system I'm working on in another game. In ...
0
votes
0answers
74 views
Light 2D and Performance issues
I want to make a 2D game that will use 2 kinds of lights (Spotlight and Point Light). I need the game to be completly dark unless there is a light in the area and the light to not pass through walls. ...
0
votes
1answer
37 views
VBO Performance issues
I'm making a 2D Tile based game in OpenTK at the moment. Performance was really bad (laggy and slow) with direct drawing, so I switched to VBOs. The performance hasn't changed, it might even be slower ...
0
votes
0answers
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Can I map uniform variables?
I'm literally just starting with GLSL, I'm using python and I actually can't run 330 (intel hd3000 on Debian) so I'm using 130, so far is ok.
I started using in first and didn't know about uniform ...
0
votes
0answers
97 views
real time lights and high quality shadows in webgl build
I have a game in which there are a lot of objects constantly moving around and a lot of real time lights with their setting set to highest, I'm building my game as webgl and this is costing me a lot ...
4
votes
3answers
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Unity “Update” method with lots of objects with logic
In my game I'm working on in Unity, I want to have energy and machines (i.e ore processing machines, smelting (think Minecraft modded)), but I was thinking about performance. The player could have ...
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votes
1answer
44 views
Performance optimization when changing Textures LibGDX
In the main Screen class of my game there is a ListArray<Card> which makes up the deck of cards . The Card's texture is set in the constructor like so :
cardTexture = new Texture(Gdx.files....
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votes
1answer
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What is more performance friendly?
I'm wondering what is more performance friendly:
1) Rendering a texture (in a seperate RenderTarget2D) and reuse it. (That will use multiple spriteBatch.End() / spriteBatch.End() calls, every drawing ...
0
votes
2answers
133 views
Is it a good idea to perform all matrix operations on the GPU?
I was wondering if it is a improvement to use OpenGL for matrix calculations instead of using the CPU. And if it is a improvement, is it worth it to change the math class to use OpenGL?
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votes
1answer
45 views
Closest to hardware/fastest pixel manipulation
I am currently working on the concept of a game, but I'm running into some problems.
For the game, I'd like to be able to directly change pixels on screen. However, all approaches that I tried so far ...
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votes
1answer
37 views
Feasibility of nested voxels
Out of curiosity, does anyone know how feasible it would be to have a voxel engine that allowed for voxels within other voxels? For example, you would have the usual chunks filled with voxels, but ...
0
votes
1answer
51 views
DirectX 11 instance mesh performance
Today my question is a about instance mesh performance in DX 11, the way I do my instancing is the standard way I think, its the same way I did it in XNA.
To start with each frame(every 2nd) I build ...
0
votes
1answer
169 views
Only 20fps framerate in libgdx Android with ~190 Actors being drawn
I'm getting bad frame rates while developing a game on Android. I have been developing on desktop too and only have the issues on Android. I am testing with a Nexus 6 (can't imagine how badly it ...
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vote
2answers
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Difference between using Tags and GetComponent
I was implementing a basic "check if the player enter the trigger" behaviour and I get myself wondering about this question:
What the difference between this:
And this:
I guess it is a performance ...
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vote
4answers
109 views
Optimizing thousand objects manipulation
I am developing a clone Minecraft for the purpose of study. I am working with Java and LibGDX. I have read some other codes on web, and reading LibGDX tutorials and currently I could develop something ...
0
votes
1answer
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libGDX - Scene2d Actions or Frame Animation, which is better for performance?
I only use Scene2d for the UI layer of my libGDX game. But I need some animations like fading or rotating on my players.
Which is better for performance:
Scene2d fade action or having multiple ...
2
votes
2answers
172 views
Is it OK to use 6-7k texture map in Unity?
I want to unwrap all my car into one texture (interier, wheels and e.t.c), so for better quality i need to use one big 7k texture. Is it OK or the better choice is to make smaller ones for groups ?
