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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Help needed with game speed

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Aramil
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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 20:48
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Okay, here's the deal...

I have this small area I'm using as a map. It contains 45 objects, and only some of them I need as dynamic objects. That much I can handle. Whenever I walk around this small room, it always too slow, even with the in-game dynamic objects. My computer is very fast - 2 or 3 Ghz or something. Is there anything I can do to speed up the game? I've seen other DarkBASIC games, and they have lots of objects and sprites. How do they do it?

What I was thinking was that I could purchase a map-making program, but I don't want to di that unless I have to...any ideas?

Much appreciated,
Aramil
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diablo fan
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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 21:35
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you want to show all 45 objects at once right? not hide some until a later point? and do you have collision on all of them?

please dont make fun of my spelling,or sentence structure.Id rather study math or programming
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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 21:37
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are you using sync and sync rate 0?

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Xander
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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 22:40
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To speed up a game by hiding objects not on the scree, use this code:



Also, check to see how many polygons are in your objects. Too many can mean big slowdown. The size of the textures you are using also playes a role in how fast your program runs.

Good Luck

Xander Moser of Bolt Software
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Maelstrom
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Posted: 15th Mar 2004 02:52
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I've got about 50 animated models running around my landscape without any slowdown. Although when i push it up to about 100 it does slow down quite a bit. All that on my AMD 2400XP.

Good tip Bolt with object hidings. Didn't know u could do that. I'll use that in my code and see what effect it has.

Also how can you tell how many polygons are in your object.
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