Then increase the size...
You only have to change WORLD_SIZE_X and those defines
You have to do it before including the cubeX.h first time.




What do you mean with this?

I added your project as "Gamestudio Genre Kit" to the wiki. http://www.opserver.de/wiki/index.php/Free_Tools

Perhaps someone should make a level demo to see how big can be the world or the view distance with some dynamic things going on ?

My mistake. I'm glad you put those in there, then.


That was a hasty overstatement. I went back through the archives in this thread and noticed that you have indeed optimized several of the more critical parts (ie the lighting) in this project, but there are some things that still need an overhaul. First of all, there is no occlusion. No matter where the camera is, all of the sprites in the level will be rendered at once, which will of course detract from the speed of the game. (Minecraft had the same problem for a long time)

Secondly, you use Gamestudio's sprites to form your boxes. That's much better than the approach many other people have used on this forum (like blocks) but you should really be using instancing, as other people have said. When Gamestudio renders sprites, as you know, it renders a double sided polygon and applies tons of shading and such to it. This is much slower than simply drawing a polygon yourself and applying a quick dark/light shade over it, and in games like this it is in particular a performance choke point that you'll need to iron out.

This is pretty cool. I like it! And it runs smooth at 60 fps.
What are you planning to do with this?

I want to get more performance out of this. I know that it's possible and so i try to get the maximum out of the engine.

I hope that my rendering times will be faster than any normal level with models and wmbs...

@Redeemer:
The sprites are already set to DECAL, so they are only one-sided. I'm also thinking about disabling the standard lighting functions if you don't want to use them.

I'm doin some research into selfrendering and so on...

thank god.. i was gonna reinvent the wheel on this one

ahm i think gamestudio automatically culls ents outside of the view arc ?

Using Instancing isnt His decision, its a pro feature, so if someone has pro and uses this project, then.. instant instancing

Default sprite mats can be disabled


@everyone: as he said its more of a stylized dev kit than a game so he wont be creating anything game related, up to one of us if they wanna do some shooter, adventure or whatever type game with it

It oculd be on the AUM 100.
Even better if someone would make some simple FPS or RPG game with it !

What I mean by occlusion is hidden surface removal. Currently, if you stand at one corner of the level and look across the level to the other corner, the game will render every room, cave, and hill in the level, which can cause major slowdowns on older PCs. As I said, Minecraft used to have this problem as well, and it was only in the last major update (1.5 I believe) that Notch implemented an HSR algorithm into the rendering module. The result of that change was a 50% speed boost on my own PC, so that's why I'm suggesting that Richi007 do the same thing.


That doesn't make my point invalid, but alright.


The materials may be disabled, but Gamestudio is still running through a bunch of leftover internal conditional statements for things that really don't need to be done. For a relatively simple project like this, this extra rendering code simply doesn't need to be there. That's why you should access the DirectX API directly and do the rendering step yourself.