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05 Jan

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

We don't really do anything to support Vulkan other than enable it. Unity does what it does. The only way we improve our Vulkan support, is update Unity, which we only do when we feel a Unity version is at a stable point for us to upgrade and then lock into some bug fix version of that before we release. I've been looking at our next Unity update, with their next LTS probably in 3-4 months, but I can try 2021.2 sooner as the next LTS is just a version of it with bugs fixed.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Many of us have AMD CPUs. AMD GPUs is another story. I have a 570 and a really old 5770. I'd have a recent AMD GPU if they weren't hard to find and stupidly expensive.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Trees need optimization work, but the last programmer who tried did not find any good solutions. We have some new programmers coming on that may get tasked with it.

Occlusion needs a tree bug fix, not a hack. POI come in all shapes and sizes.

Zeds banging on nearby blocks could maybe use a delayed/combined mesh update.

Precaching works in some cases, but can be a lot of overhead itself. Animations are already loaded. Block damage is way too dynamic. Individual pathing is threaded and not expensive.


Meshes? You mean dynamic mesh (the far ones)?


Thanks

There is a bug ticket for it. I will get to it at some point, but am currently working on ground collision bugs (player/zeds falling into, vehicles falling into and getting moved. Turrets falling into may also be related).


04 Jan

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

There were big changes to block entity LOD culling after that video was made, so the numbers they got are old.


26 Dec

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

With a 9 year old CPU, you should not have anything above medium and probably some settings on Low. My old 4790K needs medium/low settings to be playable. The 980ti at 720p should not be an issue.


Many Unity tasks have to be on the main thread and there is a fair amount of load on the graphics thread. That means those other 2 cores can not contribute to that load, which is why you typically see less that 50%. Your GPU use would not get that high, because it draws a frame and then is waiting on the main and gfx threads to finish the next frame.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Try using the console command "gfx g fps 200". That will show a graph of FPS, which may show short drops that do not appear in a single averaged FPS number.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I would not go by what happened on first or even second horde night. Those are not meant to be that hard.

There is no simple answer. There are a ton of different CPUs and GPUs combined with the various video and graphics settings.


A20 is basically the same as A18 from an engine standpoint, but with a newer version of Unity, some optimizations and additional features like dynamic mesh, dense cities and updated world content.


What CPU, GPU and memory do you have? What graphics resolution are you using?


25 Dec

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

They do target structural supports in a generic random sense. They do not do full scans up through every block to you because it would be slow.

Same rules as A19. Overall spawn rates have changed, but not specifically for vultures.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I did and then my daughter and I just finished 5 hours of 7dtd. On day 14 now.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Stop forcing me to reply!


24 Dec

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Sorry, but not that exciting to me. I would not work on it anyway. Now adding the raft or a helicopter, that would be exciting and I would be working on it.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I don't know why not since I have not heard anyone mention it.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Not that I know of.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

I don't make art, so that would be Justin if it is new grass art.


23 Dec

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Yep.

AFAIK, same animations, same timing. There are random delays in AI tasks when created, so maybe a slow dog?

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

You are supposed to start in the forest, but I think there is a bug with it finding or not having a nearby point.


22 Dec

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Which is probably a server data issue. Deleting data locally won't fix it if the server turns around and sends you junk data again. All A19 worlds should to be deleted off the server because it is possible an A20 game could be started using an A19 world.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Different issue. Collision mesh baking thread is new. AFAIK teleporting is fixed. What appears to be happening now is vehicles being thrown by physics due to some delayed or broken mesh colliders. I already tried to fix it and abuse it, but you think it is fixed and a tester turns around and says it happened, but then I can't repro.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Not heard of that from the test team. Could be an old data issue. Is this a new A20 game using an A20 world without mods?

Wiping all old save data is advisable from one major alpha to the next (18 to 19 to 20).

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Could be chunks not loading/generating fast enough. Could be the Unity decides to make a semi functional collider issue, which requires a regen of collider and we don't know until the vehicle is trying to drive over it.


SP or MP?