Anyone getting a slowdown when adding items?

[Eagle]

Are any of you getting a massive slowdown when you add items to your games?

I seem to be getting a major performance loss when I add items to my level,

I'm wondering if I'm doing it wrong or is everyone getting slow downs

 

Always~

Vickie

[Laurens]

What do you mean by items? Models?

[Mumbles]

texture size?

3x 4096x4096 textures (diffuse,normal,parallax) for example will probably take far longer to load than a single 512x512 texture (diffuse only)

[DaveLee]

Make sure that you run the GMF process tool to collapse your models, and make sure each model has a base LUA file so that you can set an appropriate view distance.

[cassius]

I don't get noticable slowdowns. Is your graphics card up to the job?

[Josh]

Unless you have a huge number of surfaces per mesh, the geometric complexity should matter very little. With Leadwerks you take an initial performance hit to get lighting and effects running, but it scales really well as you add more objects.

[Eagle]

Whats the max lights you would add to a level Josh?

 

Always~

Vickie

[macklebee]

you may wish to read over this tutorial about lighting optimization

[Josh]

There's not really any practical limit:

 

There are constraints, and one of them is the shadow updating. The lesson posted above will help with that. If you are experiencing poor performance with a simple scene, I suspect the problem may be something very simple.

[Eagle]

Thanks Guys, it looks like I have a lot of reading to do,

 

Always~

Vickie