Actors processing range
Posted: 14 Apr 2019, 14:35
While decreased values can increase performance a lot, in its current implementation it can cause a broken backward compatibility with mods.
In vanilla Morrowind, AI Processing Range slider seem to affect only combat AI and animations update. It still updates non-combat AI in the 7168 units range. It is especially easy to notice with AiTravel packages.
In theory, we can use a something similar to Morrowind's approach:
1. Add a variable to the AI package which determines if we should to force update in the 7168 range anyway or not.
2. If yes (for AiTravel, and AiFollow, for example), we update NPC anyway (including physics, AI and animations), but do not do a rendering stuff (do not render actor, do not update particles, do not do skinning).
3. If not, (for AiWander, for example) we handle them as we do now.
It should give as a good compromise between performance and backward compatibility.
What do you think?
In vanilla Morrowind, AI Processing Range slider seem to affect only combat AI and animations update. It still updates non-combat AI in the 7168 units range. It is especially easy to notice with AiTravel packages.
In theory, we can use a something similar to Morrowind's approach:
1. Add a variable to the AI package which determines if we should to force update in the 7168 range anyway or not.
2. If yes (for AiTravel, and AiFollow, for example), we update NPC anyway (including physics, AI and animations), but do not do a rendering stuff (do not render actor, do not update particles, do not do skinning).
3. If not, (for AiWander, for example) we handle them as we do now.
It should give as a good compromise between performance and backward compatibility.
What do you think?