Not sure if this is a bug, but this is happening to me:
I don't know how to describe it but I think a clump of goblins spawned in one place and start spawning bushes behind themselves while they run around? Is this intended?
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301 days ago(+1)
Not a bug per se, I uploaded a new version to fix some framerate problems another commenter was having and this - spawning bushes around an entity - was what I was experimenting with at the time (as a prototype for how elementals might work). I should probably have set the game world to a more 'normal' state before uploading!
Good to know that the game is functioning as intended.
As for everything else: performance-wise, the game runs very well on my machine (I have a 1060, i7 for reference). I never had any significant performance dips no matter how much wind and fire I spammed.
Overall, this is a pretty cool tech demo and I'm interested in seeing where you'll take this concept.
300 days ago(+1)
Good to hear! Optimizing this thing is a bit weird (lots of GPU crosstalk).
(It's actually constantly simulating all of the tiles representing wind and fire for the whole island, which means performance is constant w.r.t. those things...)
Thanks for playing! I hope to have a gameplay demo for next DD :)
Thanks for playing :)
Hm. The jumping is part of an attempted optimization that's less noticeable at 60fps (batching world-driven changes to the sim and only uploading them to the GPU every few frames), but when limiting my own FPS to 30 it becomes obvious and ugly. It looks like I'll have to replace that with something better, thanks for pointing it out!
No, the default is 60! If your PC is beefy then it running at 30 is probably a bug... Are you on Windows?
If you run and press 'g', that'll show the profiler. This is what it looks like for me (running generally at a comfortable 60fps)... It could be a problem in the vsync implementatio of the graphics libraries I'm using.
Thanks for mentioning this, I'm seeing it on my windows machine as well.
I think I see the problem. To maintain 60FPS, the game sleeps for the remainder. At least on my windows machine, when it does this, it sometimes sleeps for way too long (even though the requested sleep time is correct). This is what's behind it being at 30FPS on your machine. Very strange, I'll have to put in a better system.
Out of curiousity I looked at the raylib source to see what they do. This looks like a pretty sensible implementation that fixes what you're hitting. Seems like Sleep() is pretty off: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/rcore.c#L4954
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