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Max amount of props a area should have? - Shev - 01-20-2011
I mean, when is it kinda pushing the max amount?
I'm making a area that kinda has to be big, and I'm trying to detail it pretty well too, however I was wondering how many props could I get in before the game would start lagging on most computers.
RE: Max amount of props a area should have? - Frontcannon - 01-20-2011
The game has never lagged for me even when I tested it out with some nifty timer functions that spawned A LOT of skulls, but I have a QuadCore so I don't know how representative that is.
Be careful with lights or shadow casters though. Those rely heavily on your graphicscard and thus are more prone to lags.
RE: Max amount of props a area should have? - Vradcly - 01-20-2011
I noticed that Decals make the map slower to load and work with (but not ingame), really fast. Filled up a corridor with blood and the map went from 500kb to 2mb...
RE: Max amount of props a area should have? - Seragath - 01-21-2011
(01-20-2011, 11:10 PM)Vradcly Wrote: I noticed that Decals make the map slower to load and work with (but not ingame), really fast. Filled up a corridor with blood and the map went from 500kb to 2mb...
That explains why my friggen map flew up to 12mb all of a sudden!
RE: Max amount of props a area should have? - Tanshaydar - 01-21-2011
MapView says my map fetches 100+ MB memory. Is that normal?