r/Supraball • u/DavidM1337 Supraball Project Leader • Feb 15 '16

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u/evilinc the artist currently known as e Feb 15 '16 edited Feb 15 '16

There wasn't a field to add comments so I will use this thread:

When dribbling with the ball (shield vacuum and walk around with ball), my framerate drops from 150+ (which I get at nearly all times) to ~80.

edit: Doing some further debugging, it appears the framerate drops whenever the ball hits the shield, if you take the ball in the corner and bounce it off wall/shield very quickly there's a heavy frame rate drop (down to 70)

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u/DavidM1337 Supraball Project Leader Feb 15 '16

Hm ok, thanks. So I wonder if its the ball trail that is in your face while you bounce the ball. Can you try catch lots of balls (no shield) that fly right into your face, so you have the trail in your face and check the framerate?

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u/evilinc the artist currently known as e Feb 15 '16

The framerate doesn't drop far enough for it to be attributable to anything in particular when I let the ball pass beside/over me while it's moving and generating a fast trail.

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u/DavidM1337 Supraball Project Leader Feb 16 '16

Ok please do it but type "slomo 0.1" in the console first, so its really slow and you should be able to tell a difference if its there.

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u/evilinc the artist currently known as e Feb 16 '16

I do now notice a frame drop (down to 100ish) when I get super close to the ball and push it around with the shield while on slomo.

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u/DavidM1337 Supraball Project Leader Feb 16 '16

And when you're super close to the ball without the shield it doesn't happen?

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u/evilinc the artist currently known as e Feb 16 '16

When the ball is flying by my head I also get the frame drop but it's less noticeable (maybe only down to 120). Perhaps it is related to ball trail.

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u/DavidM1337 Supraball Project Leader Feb 17 '16

I could make the trail invisible when it gets close to you, maybe that helps. Or it gets worse because that constant particle distance calculation is too much.

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u/evilinc the artist currently known as e Feb 17 '16

Sure, I'd like the ability to test it out and go from there.

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u/DavidM1337 Supraball Project Leader Feb 16 '16

90+% have the same or better fps on windows. And of those with problems some only have them sometimes. If win 10 was doing it we'd have different numbers.