Netbook optimization for The Forge 2 (a small suggestion)

[Captain_Rage]

Playing The Forge in 2017 was a great experience! The only problem was the extreme slowdown when playing on a lousy computer (admittedly below the minimum system requirements) when the pig crowd outside of the arena appeared on the screen. If Netbook Mode would disable the pig crowd sprites and save all potato computers from slowing down to a crawl in the middle of the battle, when the player has to run to the edge of the arena, it would be a godsend. Those waving pig sprites take their toll on CPU cycles.

[CarlZalph]

If nothing else, then I'll whip up a mod to make the performance on it good enough for us users of [really bad] computers.

I'm on a temporary computer right now, worse than what I was using, and I fear it'll fall apart if I tell it to do anything too complex.

 

Here's for the Forged Forge mod that you can use in the mean time:

Spoiler

local function HideThis(inst)
    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim
    then
        inst:DoTaskInTime(
            0.0,
            function(inst)
                inst:Hide()
            end
        )
    end
end
local HideThese = {
    "lavaarena_crowdstand",
    "lavaarena_spectator",
    "lavaarena_teambanner",
    "lavaarena_groundtargetblocker",
    "lavaarena_floorgrate",
    "ember_short_fx",
}
for _,v in pairs(HideThese)
do
    AddPrefabPostInit(v, HideThis)
end

 

 

[Captain_Rage]

Ohh, that would be wonderful! The when the cheering pig crowd is rendered on the screen it really makes a slow computer come to a standstill. My solution last time was to zoom in the camera maximally to get those pigs off the screen, haha. If you manage to create a mod that will simple remove those background piggies it would be awesome!

[Zillvr]

The Forge Beta Subforum is still currently archived, and if I moved this thread over then noone will be able to make replies. So, I suggest waiting until JoeW officially reopens the subforum and then we can move this thread over. Cheers.

[Pab10Suarez]

On 1/11/2018 at 2:47 PM, CarlZalph said:

If nothing else, then I'll whip up a mod to make the performance on it good enough for us users of [really bad] computers.

I'm on a temporary computer right now, worse than what I was using, and I fear it'll fall apart if I tell it to do anything too complex.

 

Here's for the Forged Forge mod that you can use in the mean time:

  Hide contents

local function HideThis(inst)
    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim
    then
        inst:DoTaskInTime(
            0.0,
            function(inst)
                inst:Hide()
            end
        )
    end
end
local HideThese = {
    "lavaarena_crowdstand",
    "lavaarena_spectator",
    "lavaarena_teambanner",
    "lavaarena_groundtargetblocker",
    "lavaarena_floorgrate",
    "ember_short_fx",
}
for _,v in pairs(HideThese)
do
    AddPrefabPostInit(v, HideThis)
end

 

 

Some mod up to date?

@Captain_Rage some fix?

 

[CarlZalph]

42 minutes ago, Pab10Suarez said:

Some mod up to date?

@Captain_Rage some fix?

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1558029118