vehicles 'shaking' when idle

[Wombat]

i mean, when engine works, idle vehicle starts to shake a bit, was wondering how 500 units with such animation affect game performence.

[bobthedinosaur]

I'd first suggest, cleaning up what you are trying to say so your message isn't as confusing.

[Wombat]

arf, i mean animation. most vehicles in rts games got small animation that makes them tremble (better word?) when idle. i want to know how 500 of such units affect games performence.

cool ?

[smoth]

Not too bad really. Grab gundam

/cheat

/give 100 zakutank

watch idle animations.

[smoth]

I find that giving is smaller clusters seems to not tank spring as much(don't ask me why)

[zwzsg]

Because then they're not in sync, so the load is distributed, and you feel a global slowdown instead of periodic hiccups.

[knorke]

i guess you could add some random sleep in create to make the animations unsync

[smoth]

but the units are still in sync.

[bobthedinosaur]

i think he means the spawning not the idle code?

[smoth]

correct. spawning

[knorke]

i mean something like

script.create ()
sleep (random (100, 1000)
startthread (idleanimation)

[smoth]

all of them are created at the same time so say you do a startscript, it's conditions are on that cyle. The timer just means it skips animating every so many of them every so often but it still has to check the timer for all simultaneous units.

Again the scripts are not that taxing, I am just saying that the fastest way to test it (spawning say several hundred units) can create an unnatural spike as all those units spawned in teh same cycle as opposed to spread out like z said.