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Possible to reduce the insane lag of the CloakGenerator= logic?

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I really don't know how much coding-wise I am asking for, so this feature is up to you, but I think it would be very beneficial to many modders if there was a way to reduce the insane amount of lag that CloakGenerator buildings produce on the game, especially when they cloak entire buildings.

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From my experience I think it would be fair to say that a possible perpetrator of the problem is the fact that buildings under a cloak become transparent. Transparent animations of all kinds lag the crap out of the game (any animation with Translucent=yes or Translucency=.). Maybe a way to make the building display as 'cloaked' to the player but not become transparent (like a little symbol above the building, maybe?)

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Professor_Tesla (professor-tesla) wrote :

Lag? What lag? It doesn't lag for me. Are you talking about online games?

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Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

no, I'm talking about singleplayer games. I could be playing a game on speed 6 on a monster machine (so like 60 FPS where normal speed on RA2 is like 30 i think; this means the game is going super zippy fast for me at least), and having 3-4 or more cloaked buildings slows my game down to like a speed 4-3 from that speed 6.

Also, I am talking about cloaking buildings; dolphins/subs for whatever reason don't have this problem, but cloaking entire buildings produces excessive amounts of lag.

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Professor_Tesla (professor-tesla) wrote :

I know you are talking about cloaking buildings; I've implemented stealth generators before in my personal mod and my whole base being cloaked never caused any lag.

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Marshall (m-edward) wrote :

Cloak Generators causing slowdown is well known. I didn't realise there was anyone who *didn't* get the problem.

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Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

Lazy Dupl3xxx

I have a "overpowerd" system whene compared to the requirement of YR. And cloaking a base is instant lag! The ingame fps drops from something like 90-120fps to something like 20-40.

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DCoder DCoder (dcoder1337) wrote :

Very true. This has nothing to do with your graphic cards however, it's more to do with westwood's smartass ways of drawing cloaked stuff.

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Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

or anything that is displayed as transparent for that matter. I turned Translucent= off on all my animations in Artmd.ini and it never lagged again when gigantic bases exploded.

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Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

Is is transparent buildings that make the lagg is it just the coding?

Gluk-v48 (gluk-v48)
tags: added: stealth
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