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#21

The good news is in a big game like yours I think you can improve your fps easily.
What I learn from the different documentation I have been reading is geometry, lighting and code can have a big weight in performance. I see in your stats you have 3.3M of tris, 2032 passes, 609 shadow casters and 2809 batches.
I think one of first things you can try and it’s really easy, it’s the Occlusion Culling, so instead of rendering the whole level, the camera only renders what sees, that should drop your tris, passes, batches, etc. and improve your performance. Here is some info: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/OcclusionCulling.html

For the shadow casters, check if you really need those elements to cast shadows. Sometimes the element is already in a dark area and the shadow is not noticeable. And bake your lights, I don’t know how many lights you have, but I feel with one or two directional lights, and baking the rest you will get similar results.

For your code another big improvement is only use update if you really need it, you can mostly replace the update by using coroutines.

Those are just some of the general things you can do, I feel optimizing is the sum of lots of little things. If you are interested in optimizing I highly recommend these collection of articles, they were really helpful for me:

Hope it helps :slight_smile:

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#22

Thanks for posting this and i will definatly be looking into this as i feel it will be an issue for me in the future.
However this turned out not to be my route cause.

@ben @Rick_Davidson

When you code the patrol routes using the couroutines i dont think you actually resolve the issue with having no waypoint container on the AI.
I got around this by giving them a blank one to stop the error but the code still looks for it.
When i increased my number of enemies i was noticing a substantial drop in FPS (20 every 10-15 enemies)

I found my solution to check for null and break if it is null

    IEnumerator Patrol()
    {
        state = State.patrolling;
        while (true)
        {
            if (patrolPath != null)
            {
                // Work out where to go next
                Vector3 nextWaypointPos = patrolPath.transform.GetChild(nextWaypointIndex).position;
                character.SetDestination(nextWaypointPos);
                CycleWaypointWhenClose(nextWaypointPos);
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(waypointDwellTime); // TODO parameterise
            }
            else yield break;
        }
    }
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#23

Okay found a few bugs that were “bugging” me and although not a total fix i have found some fixes to some issues.

Mage actually now casts a spell instead of pointing has hand and hoping. The game also knows which weapon it has at the time of attacking and so knows if its got a staff or sword and attacks accordingly with the particle system for the staff only.
This in turn as i incorporated it into the weapon system means that any of my characters can have a particle effect applied to their main attack now as long as they have a ranged weapon. (Healer included)
A bug that i am still in the process of solving is that the character.Kill() method i thought at one point stopped the movement of corpses it apparantly doesnt or never did.
I have an issue atm where stopping motion by disabling the navmesh works but the character script makes calls on it. If i try to disable the character script earlier then the navmesh some calls still go though and give errors.

There is probably a better way to do this but will figure it out another day for now happy my mage attacks more appropriately now.

EDIT @CreativebytheSea It has become noticeable, I did have an amusing flash back of wondering why looking at the floor in some older games in old end graphics cards improved performance.
It makes total sense as well as you wont experience this issue in a fixed camera enviroment. Once i get these few bugs squashed they were making my game not fun i will build up the level some more and get on the occulsion!

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#24

I’m not sure if I understood your issue with your navmesh, but did you try:
https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshAgent-isStopped.html

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#25 
    IEnumerator KillCharacter()
    {
        // disables navmesh 
        GetComponent<UnityEngine.AI.NavMeshAgent>().isStopped = true;
        characterMovement.Kill();
        // Trigger Death Animation
        animator.SetTrigger(DEATH_TRIGGER);

        //Play Death sound
        audioSource.clip = deathSounds[UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, deathSounds.Length)];
        audioSource.Play(); // override all sounds
                            // Slow game down
                            // Time.timeScale for time slow down
                            // delay
        yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(audioSource.clip.length);

        var playerComponent = GetComponent<PlayerControl>();
        if (playerComponent && playerComponent.isActiveAndEnabled) // relying on lazy evals (if first fails it wont check 2nd arg)
        {

            //Reload scene 
            SceneManager.LoadScene(0);
        }
        else // assume is NPC
        {
            Destroy(gameObject, deathVanishSeconds);
        }
    }

Perfect solution thanks :slight_smile:

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#27

Hey Marc,

Really enjoying seeing the continuing progress on Orenidron. The spinning cubes above the quest givers are a nice touch.

What mic did you buy in the end?

#28

Hey rob,

Taking a day chilling with some tv today lol creative juices ran out after designing an Inn.
The microphone

Its really sensitive as in even my kids downstairs can be picked up on it although you should be recording and filtering background noise for recording anyway.
As i can do it whilst everyone is out its not so bad for me.

I had another look yesterday at the FPS and batches issue and rather than trying to bake more than 5 textures in the terrain to a mesh would cost money.
I have managed to drop some of the pixel error settings and other settings to get a lot low batch number and reduced the view distance.
This does mean i will have to be a bit clever with how i build my levels (No real open world area’s) unless i can get occulsion to work with it nicely.

I am going to over the next few weeks flesh out the entire level and then look at performance again as a whole and adjust befor setting enemies and levels again.

At this rate i may be ready next christmas for a demo lol (Hopefully joking)

#29

So people may have thought i have abandoned this project and they would be forgiven as i have not been here in a while.
I realized i needed something unique and went back to the drawing board for an art style. This in turn has meant a lot of learning and a lot of being in blender.

So just a few models i am making as assets whilst i learn the how to properly model,sculpt rig and animate characters. Although i am part way there already.

barrel
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Mushroom2
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Chest
Chest.png960×540 80 KB

Sword5
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The sword is still very much a work in progress as retolopogizing as i go and add details. Its on its 5th iteration now :smiley:

#30

Sword10UVTexturetest
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Sword update

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#31

Hey Marc

I was just looking at some of the most popular RPG threads for a YouTube I’m creating, and your great work came up.

Would you like a short snippet from your game included in the ad? If so, what would you like written as a credit to you?

Thanks

Ben

#32

Hi Ben,

Thanks for asking and thats fine with me, Most of the videos are standard assets so maybe a selling points of “Look at what you can do with just some standard assets and a bit of know how!”

No need to credit but Marc Carlyon is the real name if you feel the need :slight_smile:

Marc

#33

Coming back to this thread.
The issues i have had in performance seems to be linked to the unity terrain.
Now i have been speaking with people on the facebook group and they tried this also in 5.5 unity and they also had performance issues that compared to mine (3k batches).
Since then we have both got Gaia and tested in Unity 2018 and although i didnt test my batches they did and massive improvements on performance with terrain and Gaia so i will probably revisit this soon after some tests and maybe even just upgrade my old project to 2018 to see what it fixes and breaks.

Good luck to others following this course and this but i you have issues with your terrain at the end of the course try updating to 2018 with a backup of course.

#34

Excellent work!!!

#35

Thank-you,

I still have the project and i am actively working to build it up this year.
Last year i discovered even though i had a lot of knowledge i had a lot of gaps in it that i couldnt learn alone.
This i think took place as there wasnt really a good course for what i needed.
So Blender Environments came about as a popular idea to help build and learn, Unity lighting came about as well something i had said i needed help with and student had apparantly agreed so the course was made.

I am now still not at the level i need but i have the access and the knowledge to do so now

I’m working though the blender environments course at the moment to refresh UV maps before i head back to characters to replace the mage that is in the game with my own.

Development plans from there is to shape the world to fit the character as once you have one finalized asset then everything else can fall into place.

I hope this wall of text is of interest to others as i found the journey evolved a lot more than i expected and the starting goal to what i have no envisioned for the future of Orendiron is very different.

I’m not putting a timeline on it this time because i believe that also put pressure where it wasnt needed but it will be worked on consistantly (Even started making portal VFX in unity which is needed for my type of game)

Wow so less typing and back to work :slight_smile:

I look forward to posting updates this time around as i have a lot more courses to make vegetation assets something which is sorely lacking in a lot of games i see being develped.

Wish me luck and will keep you posted when i can for a decent news update

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#36

Good luck to your interesting work!! I love the atmosphere, the music, the landscapes, the lighting…

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#37

This is being remastered during the remaster :wink:
Not an abandoned project just on hold

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