Dev update:
- Work progressing on the station/component models. Noticed many of them have seperate MAT files with the same textures as a general MAT - if that's the case I'm correcting the references and dropping the custom MAT. That should cut some time in loading and prevent graphics stuttering when the game wants to load textures for a model it doesn't have in memory.
- Found and fixed several model bugs, mostly related to the new Zoner and Gallic station components introduced in 4.85.
- Fixed the playerbase hitboxes. Wasn't as big a task as I feared it would be. Base sieging should be significantly less lag inducing with those new hitboxes.
I hit one snag though. A couple of huge models, prolly by Lohr before he poofed, can't be edited by me since the tool I use can't handle them. They look allright so far though. Ginormous, but okay.
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cap death fireworks lag like hell and are taking a long time before exploding... I liked the fast and clean POOF we had in 4.84
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Only the final death explosion is different. If more people have issues I can take a look at the particle count of the new explosions somewhere in beta. But please retest once the public beta is out, there's some graphics performance increase measures already taken.
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AD, the long explosion animation leads to lag (at least on my system).
But more important: It also leads to weird phenomenon like docking while in the explosion animation. Why is that bad? Equipment loss leads to rage on the one side, or successful evasion without it leads to rage on the other side. Taunting is the norm ("I docked, you loser", "Ye, have fun buying stuff again", "didn't lose any", bllaaaah).
In both cases it's making blood boil and this game is better when this doesn't happen.
So a clean "Poof" on death would not be bad, I think.
i like em as they are. i never had any lag regarding the explosions (and I am a semi-conn-capwhore so I see them quite often) and I never attempted to dock my exploding ship either and have a hard time figuring out why someone would do that.
(12-07-2012, 11:46 AM)AeternusDoleo Wrote: Only the final death explosion is different. If more people have issues I can take a look at the particle count of the new explosions somewhere in beta. But please retest once the public beta is out, there's some graphics performance increase measures already taken.
Please, please, please.
I my intel atom and nVidia ion will be so much grateful to you.
Because of the explosion effect I am forced to use minimal level of effects, that is why I am unable to see everything else...
It helps, when pointing out these things, to do it in the bugs forum and state the exact ship that has the issue. It's not that hard to tie a cruiser death script to a liner.
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(12-07-2012, 04:28 PM)AeternusDoleo Wrote: It helps, when pointing out these things, to do it in the bugs forum and state the exact ship that has the issue. It's not that hard to tie a cruiser death script to a liner.
Considering the rather large size of the liner you could probably just link the Lib Dread death script.
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