Have you thought about normalmapping the plane? I tried that out and noticed it looks quite good. Check it out
https://www.mediafire.com/?gc9b6xybh9ta5gd
Btw, I've got fps around 30-40, which is acceptable.
Thorsten wrote in Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:02 pm:what kind of machine is it expected to run reliably with 30 fps?
This is interesting. We are reporting very different performances so there must be something interesting happening with this aircraft from the performance POV.
forest-ka wrote in Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:25 am:I'm pretty sure it's because of the canvas -- when I added a canvas to one of my aircraft, framerate went from 30FPS to 20FPS, and that's for a 640x480 HUD canvas.
Thorsten wrote in Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:02 pm:We are aware that the aircraft is a bit heavy on the resource side.
Echoing what others have said here, yes. I'm getting a whopping 12 fps out of it on a high-end gaming laptop - out of curiosity - what kind of machine is it expected to run reliably with 30 fps?
I've done some testing - the framerate is independent of shader quality settings, but depends very much on the view angle, so the culprit is the panel rendering,
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so I would strongly suggest you don't chalk it up as an inevitable consequence of realism, but entertain the possibility that the panel might be designed in a very inefficient way.
Kabuki wrote: I just notice that with such advances in hardware that we've seen since I started with computers, that programmers have more or less stopped considering how to make code fast and efficient "at the get-go".
What IS a good framerate, btw? IMHO, anything above around 24FPS -- the speed most movies are shown at -- is good enough for me.
There probably should be some kind of benchmark scenario for fair and accurate comparisons of various aircraft. There are all sorts of hardware variations out there, but some kind of test where planes on any system could be compared to a 'standard' plane on the same system, might be worth discussing. E.g. use the "total default setup, immediately after the program starts" as a number to compare to.
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