main rock
I went to the snow biome and had a lot of lag in version 2.15.2
I looked on the console and there were more than 280 animals spawned, my game when entering the snow biome goes from 70/90 fps to 10/25 fps, what could I do to reduce the spawning of animals?
plucky kestrel
Afaik, killing them is your only solution.
main rock
I kill 10 spawn 30
I'm going to have to abandon the snow biome, it's impossible to record in it
plucky kestrel
Hmm... Probably you are right. I did a short trip to a small snow biome on my map. Small enough that I could cycle around it in around 1 minute.
Nothing in there. But then after a few minutes animals started spawning.
3 rabbits, 4 deer. Quite a lot for the small area. Didn't stay longer to check if they respawn after killing.
shrewd sierra
i've done some xml tweaks for next version, gotta test them out though, got a few things going on
plucky kestrel
Just for snow or for forest also?
shrewd sierra
jus snow
plucky kestrel
Ok. Maybe it's the sprinting zombies. But I haven't seen more than 5 animals in the forest so far and I am on day 17 now.
If others also have this issue maybe we should check this too.
plucky kestrel
You could see it as an additional challenge. I always go out looting without food backup and almost without meds for healing. So far I didn't starve to death. Still it is a daily challenge.
But in MP it can be really hard when you have to share the food and there are no animals around for hunting.
dim drum
I don't know if this helps, but I get some fps drops after exploring through different Biomes. e.g. my Base is in the Forest, Going to the Desert or Snow Biome to do some looting in big Cities, coming back I almost always have to restart my game, cause of very low fps. seems like something is loading but is not unloaded when I leave the area?
I don't know much about coding, but hope this helps find the issue
shrewd sierra
I wonder if this is related to the occlusion limit issue
some people, when occlusion is enabled in vid settings, will get error spam after a while, because apparently the walkersim agents continuously take up more and more space in the occludee entries list
its a bit particular :<
plucky kestrel
Does it also simulate all the spawned animals after you leave the area?
shrewd sierra
Does it also simulate all the spawned animals after you leave the area?
naw I checked and they despawn
they are "statically spawned" though so when you return they respawn
which might be the crux of the issue
maybe the game makes a distinction between statically and dynamically spawned entities in this case 👀
i havent dug into it that much yet
but im tempted to just double the occludee limit and call it a day :p
probably wont help with fps issues
@plucky kestrel
public virtual bool canDespawn()
{
return !this.IsClientControlled() && base.GetSpawnerSource() != EnumSpawnerSource.StaticSpawner && !this.IsSleeping;
}
can you spot the problem here? :3 keeping in mind.. walkersim agents are statically spawned
plucky kestrel
Hmm... I have no idea what clientControlled means.
And what exactly a sleeper is.
But it looks like there are several conditions preventing a despawn.
shrewd sierra
im not sure either about the client controlled bit :3
there is some weird code ive come across occasionally that seems to relate to entities being distributed in some way and assignedto players, in multiplayer
which SEEMS to imply some kind of optimisation where a player on their own with a bunch of zambies actually just controls them without the server having to be authoritative
seems like trouble to me, but idk maybe it's fine
plucky kestrel
Maybe it is used for companions?
shrewd sierra
but vanilla as none!
plucky kestrel
Yet. But maybe they already support them.
shrewd sierra
well all I can say is I haven't seen any code for that