hi there..

OK.. EvilSOB and i tried to create a Dungeon keeper Basic Script. We can:
- load a map => Works great
- Camera movement + Cursorhand + light at hand position => Superb
- Constant FPS = OMG.. no -.-

when zooming out, the fps drop under 20.. not playable..
In the original DK2, the fps are constant in full inzoom and outzoom...

Is it because my levelsystem is based on 12-Face blocks???
is it Game Studio???
I don´t know... I puzzle my way trhough this question now for 3 months.. but didn´t found any solution...


What do you think, how DK2 works that fluid..???

Hi,

Well, there could be many reasons for your low framerate, but as I haven't seen either the code or the level, it's very hard to tell why (could as well be your hardware which is the problem, but of course I can't tell ).

ouh sry.. here you go:
Keeper of the Dungeons SDK

"Hauptspiel_Script.c" is the mainscript..

Yes, the FPS drops down when zooming out. But with me, it drops to 35 frames or so.

to much too ^^

Im not sure why you are building the level out of hundreds of entity for full wall pieces in your games, its really a dumb idea.

use lod.

lod? the entities already are as simple as they can get. :p

if you want to use so many entities you have to use static entities as much as possible which don't run an unnecessary while loop.

my.emask &= ~DYNAMIC;



the shaders and the overdraw seem to be quite heavy too. there is a lot of room for improvements but this would need some experimentation.

as lostclimate said, avoid too much entites for the walls.
Try make only the "outer" two layers out of individual entities and use a greater model for the inside layers e.g. a 8x8 plane instead of 64 1x1 blocks
However you have to fake the "digg-here selections" then (via coordinates or a vertex grid)

i don't think that's necessary. if i switch the entities to be static and disable shaders i get several hundred fps no matter what zoom level. i don't see any reason for having those entities run a while loop all of the time.