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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Frame rates Issue with many objects on screen

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Ashingda 27
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Posted: 24th Jul 2012 12:54 Edited at: 24th Jul 2012 12:56
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Making a game that at some point has 100+ troops on the screen and finding the frame rates to drop really low. The model is low poly count also have a simple culling routine and tried lowering the texture quality but doesn't seem to help.

Is there a method to work around this issue, or should I just stick to using billboards? There's many hack and slash games out there that has loads of objects on screen and running smooth so there's gotta be a trick to this right....

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Diggsey
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Posted: 24th Jul 2012 16:32
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At a guess I'd say it's the animation that's slowing it down. Do a search for animating objects using a shader, that method should give you a performance boost.

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Ashingda 27
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Posted: 24th Jul 2012 19:40
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Yes it's the animation slowing me down. Just tried running the same thing with just the static model and got very high frame rates. Doing a search for what you suggested, so far just random things pop up but I am still looking it up some more. I'm using blender to create my model and have been trying to save the animation without the armatures but that doesn't work either.

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Posted: 24th Jul 2012 21:09
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Apply the shader I attached to your models.

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Posted: 24th Jul 2012 21:36 Edited at: 25th Jul 2012 02:33
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Yes that works amazingly well. Only one problem, I use set ambient light at 100 and fastbone darkens the model. I looked around a bit and found a modified version of fastbone and it works perfect now! http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=160643&b=24

Thanks for the help

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By the way I also tried reducing the number of bones and it helps speed things up.

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