Nearing the end of the year I added a bonus video for showing the new things in the last few releases. Enabling grass, far view and bloom ate up much more performance resulting an FPS of 14 in the captured video.
This post is a regularly updated list of independent permanent web contents linking to jcrpg official sites:
To all jcrpg readers around here I wish a merry Christmas. Hope you'll have the possibility for a great time. I will pause the development and put it to rest for some days now. I advise you to do the same with your everyday tasks. Create and enjoy this little rest in between the storms of war of existence. ;-)
Headlines:
"Base geographies (Mountain, Plain, Forest) were refactored to point height calculated tile generation. Cave and River were rewritten to be compatible with the modified base geographies. Farview mode was refactored and beautified based on new geographies. New configuration parameter called RENDER_DISTANCE_FARVIEW was added. World generation was extended with rivers and caves. The demo game is now running in the generated world." Download, test and report!
The Cave and River has been modified to work together with all the new stuff in Geography. They fit together now well.
While I was tinkering with the new height based tile calculation method it occurred to me that with this new code at last I can make the far view mode work much better than before! The cube kind of a given height is calculated based on the neighboring cubes' height relative to the current cube's height. The method calculates if a slope or a ground or some other kind of cube is needed. Slope if the cube is at a lower height than neighbors, normal ground if in equal height, etc. And here comes the trick! In farview parts only every 4th cube is rendered and the scale of it is multiplied by 4. Before using this method farview rendering resulted in ugly gaps between ground and lower positioned ground parts unconnected with a slope. BUT with height based cube kind calculation we can have gapless view if the neighbors in far view are determined to be 4th cube in the 8 used directions for cube kind calculation instead of the next cubes around. Thus big sized slopes will be always put between two different levels of ground. Finally farview is usable and much nicer than anytime before! :-) Okay, not the nicest I've ever seen, but gives some base potential to later sophistication.
If you are testing JCRPG and it runs slow there are a few things you can check to improve performance.
Firstly there's config.properties in the root directory of the game that can be modified with a text editor. Things to care about in ascending order of impact on game aesthetics:
Yeah, perfection is a must. We got close to it: smithing on the ground component models and hours and hours of experimenting with the optimal height point geography generation plus the refactoring of all the classic geographies like Plain, Mountain, Forest resulted in a much varied environment full of slopes and levels to explore! :) Thus we are now in the second round: to beat the river and cave into its place...gee, hard work ahead! Maybe meaning another big refactoring to come... Shots depict now a bit of the varied climate with a small mountain part plus the new "next gen ground code" plains and forests. ;-)
Posts
