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Yesterday I tested 100 zeds and various shadow settings and did not see that much difference on an RTX 2070. I do have Unity's gfx jobs enabled, which may have some effect on that even though FPS generally seems the same with it enabled. I moved the gfx jobs change into the project, so it will be on in a20.1.

Object quality setting matters more than it used to, since we have more block models, which cause more draw calls.

One of our new programmers is researching trees.

I fixed it today. Fix will be in 20.1.

I don't want canned pathing, if that is what you mean by common. The AI should react dynamically to whatever block combination is presented to them and make a reasonable job getting to you. Bandits, once in, will do the same.

Does it happen with Dynamic Mesh off?

AMD and nVidia each have to support Vulkan in their drivers, so one could be having problems while the other does not. It may also vary by GPU model.

Game options on Windows are stored in the registry.

I have not seen the overlaps you had in your picture.

Disappearing trees is a bug with occlusion. The tree is there, but it looks like trees can get in the wrong occlusion group or multiple groups.

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.

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.

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)?

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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).

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Stop forcing me to reply!

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.

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

Not that I know of.

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

Yep.

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

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