My Garage: A Mechanic's Vision

[white prism]

More details will be posted soon. For now I'll let you guess what I'm planning.
Note: This is only a concept for now.

[lean axle]

why u post mirrors edge photo? XD

[white prism]

You'll see

I like to leave people hanging

[chilly turtle]

New map?

[white prism]

No, but a rework of the current island

Not exactly an expansion... Nobody asked for that anyway lol. Less FPS, more loading times, no fun

[chrome orbit]

Good luck with this

[low apex]

guess he is adding parkour

[low apex]

lol

[flint token]

island needs a rework badly def need this mod for sure

[trail ember]

I thought about a full map rework but will prob never do XD

[white prism]

No but before I even got this idea I thought of creating a parkour map because the movements in this game are fun

However I instantly felt like that would be a waste of time. Maybe sometime

[white prism]

Yeah I'll definitely need luck to keep my Unity project existing without corrupting anything

[ember zenith]

use cloud saves and periodically send a save file to someone or to an alt accound to go back to

always prep a backup of big projects

[white prism]

Noted, thanks

[white prism]

Alright it's time to actually explain what this is about. I'll make it short for now.

After countless experiments to do with optimization I still couldn't figure out a way to make this game look good and run decently on low end devices. Unless, I create this mod.

The plan is to redesign the entire island (new map was put aside for now). That includes both the environment and the buildings. It's mainly going to be deleting existing assets and retexturing pretty much everything. I thought of doing a minimalistic design inspired by the environment of Mirror's Edge and the tutorial of CMS21. That way, the game will have a completely different look and run much better.

I'll share some proof of concept soon using building materials and material master, so you can actually see it in the game. When I actually start modding this I'll open another much more organized thread. Hopefully this weekend.

[white prism]

Well this is kinda ass but it's a start

Obviously it's not going to be just white and red, but making this mod compatible with the current finishing materials will be difficult

Looks like it's time to start actually modding

[lean axle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6-_Lgdt0zg

[white prism]

Me on my way to rip all the assets:

[white prism]

I'm kidding guys I'm not actually going to rip the assets.

Also, I should've mentioned. I'm a free runner and a graphic designer irl. So if I don't nail this shit nobody else will

The only problem is that I don't have experience with Unity. That I'll have to learn

[trail ember]

sir

if a 13 year old (at the time) dumbass can learn the basics in a day or 2 i think you can pretty easily

how old are you btw?

[white prism]

20

Should be fine then

[chrome orbit]

Wow interesting idea, i hope this will be good

[trail ember]

Unc

Old man

Grandpa

[lean axle]

I have all ripped

[white prism]

1. Why?
2. I don't actually need them, I don't intent on adding anything from the game

[white prism]

Honestly, I can't see this mod becoming very popular as of right now. The map is going to be stripped of the few details it does have, like the decorative buildings, trees, grass etc

It's essentially a more innovative and eye pleasing version of Artem's FPS up mod

[flint token]

ill use it

[white prism]

This shit is kinda dead because I don't have much time for it, I'm almost done setting up my workspace so I should start working on it this weekend

[white prism]

Lololol did you actually think I'll work on it this weekend. Maybe next month

[dark rapids]

.

thats just cruel

i love it

[drowsy slate]

https://tenor.com/view/curse-aukerman-comedy-fist-in-air-shaking-gif-17030020917278630943

[white prism]

I didn't forget about it, progress will be made sometime in January. Can't say anything more but I'm definitely committed enough to this to go through with it until the end

[round hearth]

Changing the map is certainly one of the best way to improve performance sir.

There are some hard-to-fix stuff you need to workaround which is the main reason i did not go with my own map mod stuff a time ago

[white prism]

This is going to be the biggest slop of the year but performance is guaranteed

My trigger to create this mod was when I tried to get back into the game and couldn't get a consistent 60 FPS unless I did some very stupid things for optimization

[round hearth]

when new map revive :(

[flint token]

i miss it so much

[lofty briar]

I wonder how a map mod would even work in the game

[flint token]

we used to have a great map mod i miss it

[normal wraith]

I'm wondering if a terrain game object consisting of a 50-100 mesh collider with 256 triangles has a significant impact on performance, and whether it's possible to turn a game object into a terrain and use a terrain collider, which has a lower impact on performance.

I don't know if the Utils mod has functions for loading modified terrain.

[round hearth]

certainly no

if u mess with terrain u are on our own

the best would be to have everything tiled

[white prism]

Which is exactly why I'm not doing that

[stable rose]

Thats awesome did it have tracks or windy roads?

[normal wraith]

You don't understand. Add your terrain next to the vanilla one, but in a different place.

[low apex]

When progress on this?

[white prism]

When release mod that isn't slop?

Nah seriously though I really want to sit on it this weekend but I may or may not have the time for it

I have time primarily during the weekends so it would be ideal to start now and not drag this on too much

[round hearth]

Do it?

ModUtils doesnt provide nothing for this because u are simply loading gameobjects

No point on helping doing that

[low apex]

Not the trading moderator talking shit 😆

[errant perch]

when this be out you guys take like 3 decades to release your shit mods

@white prism

[low apex]

@white prism ^

[white prism]

I can ban yo ass equally as much as any other moderator, I just focus on moderating a different section of the server compared to most

[white prism]

If I provide an accurate argument to this I will start beef 100% so I'll just stay silent

[errant perch]

Cuz you don't have an accurate argument 😔

[white prism]

Yeahhh this ain't worth it

As for a release date I won't say anything because I know this could get infinitely delayed with how my life is currently going

[low apex]

Ban me for what 😂

[white prism]

Nothing I just made a point

I have 0 reasons to ban you

[round hearth]

go and kiss now

[trail ember]

i have NEVER seen you say anything like this lmao

[round hearth]

would be the ideal solution on this case

[trail ember]

lmao

[errant perch]

Lmao @round hearth what has gotten in to you

[bleak oasis]

can i record the kiss or....?

[low apex]

Unfortunately yes

[white prism]

Development has been further delayed due to in-game testing. I realized that I haven't actually played the game in ages and I need some time on the game in order to understand the performance gains I need to achieve. Development will start in early February. I might change the direction of this mod depending on the testing results. The idea of optimizing the map will obviously stay.

TDLR; I want to actually play the game

[stable flare]

[normal wraith]

If you can't take a shit, don't torture your ass.

[white prism]

I can only make 10 different speculations about what this even means

[white prism]

@white prism Wake up time to mod

[chrome orbit]

Lol

[white prism]

Alright, a bit late but testing is finished. The results aren't what I hoped for - it looks like I'll have to come up with something else...
Gonna take this week to think about a different approach to optimization and visuals.

A new post will be opened if I manage to think of something else

[thorn herald]

So is optimisation the issue or the asthetics of the map?

Becouse imo if the new map looks good enough and it runs better than the current one it should be released as a beta version, most players whould rather wait for the full mod whit the performance boost of the beta version rather than play on 20fps

[white prism]

The problem is that you don't understand what I'm trying to do. I don't understand either, so I can't say anything 😂

I will say that this game has many issues and I need to think which one I want to tackle first

[stable flare]

What about the trailers?

[white prism]

That's a completely different topic from what I'm doing here

The solution is to not use trailers

[chilly turtle]

how's the progress?

[white prism]

So far I've only looked into several ideas and tested them using base game features

No actual modding done yet

My final goal is to run this game better without making it plain ugly

So far this post has only been me blabbering and showing random concepts, I want the next post to have a coherent plan and goals

[white prism]

For example, you see this? It ain't gonna work, because:

1. The color scheme isn't eye friendly, especially combined with the existing light buildables.
2. Anything to do with buildables and lighting is a massive FPS killer, so I can't take buildables into account with this mod

I may just have to turn My Garage into My Desert

[ember zenith]

so is lighting and buildables so laggy because theyre poorly optimized? or is it just the engine itself

[white prism]

The lighting that buildables have in particular is an FPS killer. That's why I resorted to using the existing buildings such as the main garage, house and beach garage

Buildables themselves are fairly optimized I'd say

[ember zenith]

that makes more sense as to my every time i place more then 6 lights my fps is sub 20

[white prism]

I could just make an entire guide on game optimization but it would be easier to make this mod instead 🤣

[round hearth]

The trick is to reduce the quality of the realtime shadows :P

There is no good way to workaround these lights as they need to do realtime shadows :/

[uncut tartan]

Very fun.

[last olive]

Might I ask what was it

[flint token]

it was a huge map and youd have to drive for awhile to find a big city where used dealer was

junkyard was just on a dirt road

[last olive]

Oh

lol

So basically going anywhere was like going to the interior shop

[flint token]

yes

[crisp kindle]

that sounds awesome!

[white prism]

I have this feeling this will never be finished

Can't make much progress right now because it's raining missiles on a daily basis

Don't bother asking me about this mod until the war is over

[thorn herald]

Where are you from???

[low apex]

He’s from Iran

[thorn herald]

Damn good luck

[white prism]

WHO told you that? I don't think a single PC in Iran is capable of running MG lmao. I'm from the "other side" of things, it's not nearly as bad here but it can't be ignored

[stable flare]

yeah lmao, good luck, its terrible, the world has gone to shit

[white prism]

This war has been long anticipated, it's time Iran will be liberated from all the Islam extremism bullshit. What about us though... We're still dealing with Zionist extremism bullshit 😭

[stable flare]

yeah, damn, well im glad your okay that's the main thing

[stable rose]

Ey they probably have a few that can

[spice stone]

the reason for the war is only trump and israel.

i can not understand the people who support israel..

[white prism]

I'm not in any position to speak about politics, and the only reason I'm supporting my country is because they're preventing Iran from nuking me

[stable rose]

Could be a cover up to take attention off of trumps... liking for kids

[chilly turtle]

Why you talking about it?