Firstly, performance is very bad when there are more than about 70 characters in the area.\u00a0 Which is almost always.\u00a0 For a start I have temporarily taken out all civilian NPCs from the game, and NPC numbers in general will be kept small.
\nThis however is a temporary measure, my solution to this is to split the game code in half and run most of the code on a background thread, while the main thread will be used for rendering and physics, nothing else.\u00a0 What this means in laymans terms, is the frame rate will be blazing fast even if there are 100’s of NPCs around, but its a major job for me and I estimate will take me a month or two.\u00a0 So I’ll leave it for later, until then bear with the lousy frame rate.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nSecondly is that loading times as you move about the map are ridiculously long, especially when a town is loaded.\u00a0 For now I’ve fixed it up a little so Its not so bad when you go back to a place you’ve been before, because some data is kept in memory.\u00a0 Its still bad though, and the main cause of it all is the pathfinding system analysing the map.
\nSo the solution for this I have decided is to switch to a new pathfinder library (called\u00a0recast<\/a>).\u00a0 This will not only fix the loading times, but will fix the buggy pathfinding system currently in place (which is another problem).\u00a0 Again this is a big job that will take a month or two, and I really don’t want to do it, so my plan is to wait until Kenshi is making enough sales and I’ll hire another programmer to do it for me.<\/p>\n
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