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Geek Culture / Another silly moment from Cowbox :(

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C0wbox
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Posted: 15th Aug 2009 03:52
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Usually my sillyness is portrayed through asking for help in the DBP section then finding the answer pretty much as soon as I posted.

Thankfully I didn't post about this one as it was too complicated to go through my AI code with everyone.

I just learnt that one should never underestimate sc_setupcomplexobject. Failing to do so, lost me so much speed with AIs running around insidee my map that I was seriously giving up hope with my project. (The project should run at 66FPS and was dropping to 53 with only a handful of enemies )

I will now not be so oblivious to its advantages over sc_setupobject.

Anyone ever done something this stupid then found the answer a while later and breathed a nice big long (theoretical) sigh of relief? xD

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 15th Aug 2009 05:44
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Nope. I'm perfect.

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C0wbox
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Posted: 15th Aug 2009 16:41 Edited at: 15th Aug 2009 16:41
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I must just be the only silly here on the forums - I even managed to write a whole bug report, post it, then find out it wasn't a bug (1/20 != 0.25 in integer land )

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BMacZero
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Anybody remember when I forgot AUTOCAM OFF and thought it was a BlitzTerrain glitch?



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Satchmo
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How complex does the object have to be to have speed advantages?

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Darth Kiwi
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Ehehe, yeah, autocam is a pain. I also remember not adding the "lock object" command, which screwed up the guns on a FPS. Never got to a bug report, though, thankfully

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Diggsey
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Posted: 15th Aug 2009 18:48
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Quote: "1/20 != 0.25 in integer land"


1/20 != 0.25 in floating point land either


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SunnyKatt
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I've done something similar before - "oh no! My engine is too slow and the game will never be as great as planned!"

Then -

"Yay, I fixed it. That wasn't hard, just a silly mistake."

Makes you feel really good afterward.

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C0wbox
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Posted: 15th Aug 2009 23:05
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@ Satchmo
I don't know exactly, but my map was an FPS style level with 20k odd polygons and having 5 men walking towards you, all checking for sliding collision with the map slowed my FPS considerabley. And my PC is pretty darn sweet:
2.9ghz duel core, nVidia Geforce 9800, 4gb (3 running) ram ...

@ Diggsey
Well yeh, it just refused to use 0.25 in the calculation I was doing (it wasn't defined as a floating point)

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TheComet
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Making errors and mistakes is usual. I remember my game suddenly dropping to 43 fps after I went into the cave and came out again. I took months to figure out why, until I noticed that I loaded the grass in the level 10 times after exiting the cave instead of only 1 time...

Quote: "How complex does the object have to be to have speed advantages?"


Anything higher than 50 polygons.


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C0wbox
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Posted: 16th Aug 2009 02:55
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Quote: "I loaded the grass in the level 10 times after exiting the cave instead of only 1 time"

Hah, that's a good one xD

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