First of all, thank you very much for this great tool, it allows me to build and animate sprites that look pretty good with my nonexistent artistic skills, I love it!

I moved recently to 0.17, and the UI is now systematically slower, for pretty much all operations (for example renaming a node : when I click on a node name, it takes a little less than one second for the edition mode to appear)

Pixelover is still useable, but such lags are rather annoying ^^'

I am not sure how many more details I can give, I am running a recent laptop with integrated graphics card  :

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Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 155U   1.70 GHz

Installed RAM    32.0 GB (31.4 GB usable)

System type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

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Thank you!

Hi, thank you for the report, I'm afraid it's due to switch to vulkan renderer with an integrated GPU maybe it's not well handled. I was thinking about making a launcher or something to be able to switch the renderer but you can do it manually by typing : PixelOver.exe --rendering-method gl_compatiblity --rendering-driver opengl3

In a cmd in the folder where pixelover is located

Ah great, I'll check this command, and confirm if it was indeed the cause of the issue, thank you!

So, I was able to give it a try... but bad luck, it does not work, apparently because the shader is not working with compatibility renderer.

I have this error message at startup :

SHADER ERROR: 'hint_normal_roughness_texture' is only available when using the Forward+ renderer.

and when I open a document, the view is blinking, mostly showing random white shapes that take most of the canvas.

So I'm afraid that falling back to compatibility renderer will require a bit more work ^^'

I'll try to do some experiments with Forward+ renderer on my Godot project, see if I can reproduce the issue, I still find it strange that it would cause such lags... I should also be able to test my pixelover file on another machine, to see if the results are different.

If you have other ideas or tests that I can run, let me know ;)

Hi! 

I realized that I have not given a follow-up on this issue, but actually I do have news : I have the same issue with vanilla Godot. 

This means that the issue is not due to pixelover, I am now hoping that the next release of Godot will not have the problem, I'll let you know.

Cheers 

Hi again,

I found a fix for my issue : it is indeed a common problem with Godot, and appeared since multi window was introduced.

Luckily, it can be fixed via an editor setting, that can be passed on command line : --single-window

Using this in Godot editor itself is not ideal, because it prevents embedding the game in the editor, but with pixelover I really don't see any difference, I don't think that multi-window is used by pixelover.

My recommendation would be to use single window by default in pixelover builds ;)

Hope that helps, thanks again for this great tool!

Hi,
Thank you for the feedback and to have find out a fix. Now it's used when using popup window and I think it's required for the file picker window (but I need to verify that). In the future it will be useful to split panels in multiple screen for example but the functionality isn't here yet.
But this can certainly be a new option in the settings if the change can be effective during runtime, I'll have a look, thank you again!

Great, I hope that you find a way to include the setting in a clean way then!

... And that this gets fixed in Godot itself too, there are quite a lot of mentions of this issue actually,  a fix will arrive sooner or later ;)