Better Crumbling?

[weak cave]

Okay, so there’s two things I’d want.

1: If a chunk of a non-physics entity becomes unsupported (ie, a building getting the lower floors exploded) the unsupported portion becomes a physics entity and falls.
1a: (Optional) After a few seconds of not moving, the destruction physics entities return to being blocks to reduce performance load.

2: When disconnected, physics entities split (ie. a plane getting a wing blown off, and instead of the remains floating in air attached to the plane, they become their own physics entities) I know about VS Crumbles, but that doesn’t work well with larger ships, and if you change the config, it can break smaller ships.

Idk how feasible any that would be, so feel free to flame me, lol.

[final bobcat]

only prob i can see with this is the lag. if u make it so that u need a specific block on the ship to stop them despawning, then missiles and stuff will be less feasible, but if u dont, ur pc tries to kill u

[weak cave]

Oh, no, only the ones that are the destruction physics entities would return to blocks, the rest wouldn’t.

[final bobcat]

hmm

that'd be cool

altho like u said, idk how possible it would be

[vocal hull]

no

ur getting ship splitting and ur gonna be happy abt it

[final bobcat]

hmm

yea alr

makes sense

[empty egret]

2. is called ship-splitting, and will be in VS2.5

1. would definitely be possible as an addon, but I don’t see it ever being added to base VS

[weak cave]

Couple questions about this one.
A: Will the main ship retain its own slug, or will it change when splitting?
B: Is there a size limit to the splitting, or can I use this as a way to reduce some of the lag on my mega carriers when not in active use?
C: Can detachment be automated? As in, I have a system of deployers that assemble an object on a ship, connected by a single block, and a piston retracts the block, making it split?

[deep arch]

A) One of the ships will retain their slugs
B) There's no size limit. I guess you could do that, but with the massive performance boost VS2.5 is getting, I don't think it'll matter
C) Yes.

[weak cave]

What sort of performance boost can I expect?

[hazy atlas]

Going from a custom cooked physics engine to one made by nvidia

So uh… quite the boost

No offence to krunch

[deep arch]

here's 4096 ships exploding in a cave

it only tanked phys TPS by half

and then calmed down once the ships stopped moving and fell asleep

[weak cave]

(oh thank fuck)
And I'm assuming the optimizations extend to massive ships as well?

[deep arch]

tomato made a ship

what was an entire chunk

and it didn't lag

so yeah

[weak cave]

Multiple region file ships are now a possibility!

Let's go!

[hazy atlas]

I mean… they were possible before with enough ram

[weak cave]

(Buddy, I don't have a PC that costs about as much as the US GDP)

[hazy atlas]

Technically lod makes very very large ships not terrible for performance

But it causes issues… so is usually cranked up

[vernal crypt]

idk i got 250gb's of ram for 40 bucks

[weak cave]

WAIT WHAT

[weak cave]

Tell me where, please

[twilit hollow]

ram or just hdd

[vernal crypt]

ram

[twilit hollow]

ddr0.1

[vernal crypt]

Poland

DDR4 200gb's for 40 bucks is pretty common here, companies prefer to sell stuff than dispose of it as its cheaper

and since nobody buys it except for me and like 5 people then they keep prices low

its more of ,,help me not pay for disposal'' than ,,buy it from me''

Radeon VII 16gb, i got it for the price of weekly groceries

[twilit hollow]

😮

[vernal crypt]

I got a whole server with two CPU's (40 threads each) and it costed me a little less than my used ebike

People don't buy them because they are hungry for power, and people don't know about them, the first problem gets solved easily since its more and more common for even poor families to have solars

[vernal crypt]

plus we have a super strong Nvidia culture, so AMD's are cheap, you are pretty much stealing from the seller

[vernal crypt]

forgot to add

ECC Ram is super cheap

[frosty tree]

where tf

32 gb cost me ~160 dillar

[hazy atlas]

bro what 😭

I got like 32 for my PC for like $20 I think

actually I don't remember it might've been more like $80

but still less than $160

[weak cave]

WHERE THE HELL DO YOU ALL LIVE

[hazy atlas]

(it was 2x 16 GB)

[weak cave]

(Because I need to move there!)

[hazy atlas]

USA

[weak cave]

sigh

[hazy atlas]

also it might've been used RAM

not brand new

but I don't think it matters that much?

unless RAM gets worse with use I'm not sure 🤔

honestly I'm kinda clueless when it comes to computer hardware

like why do all CPU's sound like they use a different rating system (I understand none) 😭

[frosty tree]

where the hell do you get your stuff💔

everything is expensive as hell

[hazy atlas]

ebay

I also only upgrade my PC like

once every 2 years

and never to the latest and greatest

just to the slightly less budget

[frosty tree]

ok reasonable then

risk of getting a brick instead💔

[vernal crypt]

If i told you and it got popular it would no longer be cheap

[frosty tree]

boowomp

[vernal crypt]

Guide for buying: when buying used gpu, buy amd, they are less likely to be used for mining bitcoin, so less chance of getting a fart brick

when cpu: Intel server cpu's are generally really really affordable for what they pack

Dell makes proprietary parts for their Pc's, so they are less modyfiable, but if that's no concern to you

Buy a dell workstation

[vernal crypt]

in all seriousness, poland has its own ,,ebay/amazon''

Pretty reliable, but if you are not in poland, then its no concern to you as they don't ship abroad

If you are from here, you know what im talking about, if you are not, then it wont be of use to you either way

[hazy atlas]

bro is being very vague

[frosty tree]

i know, im using it

[vernal crypt]

Yea, its big enough to locals to not need introducing, its like introducing americans to what homelessness is