well, removing those sea spotlights with the water caustic effect seems to improve performance. double fps in areas and i noticed 4x in some areas i was getting very low before. performance is still poor overall though, so more work needs doing on the overall optimisation. im guessing adding some cull distance volumes and maybe going over the whole map and just removing certain things may well be the best way of fixing fps problems.
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well, last time im posting regarding this. I did a last little play, and removed a couple of little things, and that improved performance yet again. but looking that the stats page as im running around, the main problem is static mesh tris. its much higher in areas than it should be according to that ut3 udn page. im no expert, but id guess that although your using around the limit in terms of amount of static meshes, static mesh tris is alot higher than acceptable, and in a couple of areas, nearly double, so im guessing its not the amount of meshes etc, but the amount of 'detailed' meshes in there. mixed with the lighting issues like the dynamic ones and the caustic water effects, i think the combination of it all is causing all the problems. i hope you can sort these things out and have a good play with it and try some of the things mentioned. at the moment, for me at around 5fps and thats without anyone else in there, its just not playable sadly.
If you want I will take the map and do an optimization pass on the map and send it back to you. There are a lot of things you can do to optimize a level, Ive written tutorials on the subject. Dynamic lights were just one of the many things you could do to optimize the map.
why cant the guy do the stuff himself ? no offence to anyone, but alot of hints and tips on what to do has already been given, not only by me. i especially spent a good hour today looking and trying to give advice on what to do. surely no one will learn if they can easily pass a map to someone else to fix ?
And as I pointed out a lot of time, I dont see what can be done.
I will not remove the caustic effect because that would remove the
unique look.
Culldistance volumes have 0 effect, and why would they? The only thing you can put the volumes over are the base, but they are occluded by the sm's anyway.
I did test this. I placed 2 gigantic culldistance volumes over the 2 bases which remove the sms at a distance of 8000. So if you were to stand in the middle, the volumes would remove all sm from the bases. Which resulted in the same fps as before, because occlusion already takes care of this....
And yes, the polygon count is about 800.000 in base and 6.000.000 in the middle.
I wont remove half the map just to make it playable.
I will not remove the caustic effect because that would remove the
unique look.
Culldistance volumes have 0 effect, and why would they? The only thing you can put the volumes over are the base, but they are occluded by the sm's anyway.
I did test this. I placed 2 gigantic culldistance volumes over the 2 bases which remove the sms at a distance of 8000. So if you were to stand in the middle, the volumes would remove all sm from the bases. Which resulted in the same fps as before, because occlusion already takes care of this....
And yes, the polygon count is about 800.000 in base and 6.000.000 in the middle.
I wont remove half the map just to make it playable.
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And you shouldn't have to. Also when you are placing cull distance volumes you need to make sure that the static meshes within it are actually set to allow cull distance volumes or they won't do anything.
i personally cant tell any difference just by removing some of the caustic effect. and all the hints i gave are directly from the udn site on what is the best ways of improving performance, sorry if its not working for you for whatever reasons.
according to that site it is recommended to keep below around 800,000 static mesh tris. on your map theres areas where they go over 1 million, and areas where it hits 1.5 million. i even touched 2 million in one particular 'view' in the map.
anyhow im sorry your stubborness and arrogance are stopping you from making the map playable. from what i can see, the only way you can improve performance is by starting to remove stuff, but if you cant see that and your stubborness to accept thats at fault, then you shouldnt be making multiplayer or any maps for that matter if you cant see that people arent going to be able to play the map. whats the point of a juddering showcase map ?
well looking forward to trying a optimized version since this looks really sweet! goodluck in getting it more playable
and of course always super cool to see some more custom CTF maps!
and of course always super cool to see some more custom CTF maps!
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sadly i wouldnt expect too much. it can only be optimised so far, but really needs a fair few changes and stuff pulling from it to move the fps up enough to make it playable.
Was this ever updated?
Hey, I see I'm a few years late to this party.
Love this map but yes, it's almost unplayable, at times going down to 15 fps in the big rooms (and never getting above 55 for me). However, did you ever get a chance to optimize it?
If not, you should check out what this guy did, his name is Lord Porksword and he also had a visually intense level that he redid and it runs perfectly and yet looks the same. It was all under the hood stuff.
http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=615592
Hey, I see I'm a few years late to this party.
Love this map but yes, it's almost unplayable, at times going down to 15 fps in the big rooms (and never getting above 55 for me). However, did you ever get a chance to optimize it?
If not, you should check out what this guy did, his name is Lord Porksword and he also had a visually intense level that he redid and it runs perfectly and yet looks the same. It was all under the hood stuff.
http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=615592