[franku's concern about need for this change] I play Widelands in fullscreen at 3440 x 1440. At that resolution, the game needs 90% of the single CPU it uses just to draw the screen. I want to add zooming in and out into Widelands, but that needs that performance even worse. On my wifes computer, Widelands noticeable stutters whenever the game loads a graphic from disk. I have been working on these performance improvements for over a year now - I think they are very important and I want to have them in build 19.
I understand your concerns about feature freeze and new bugs, but this is really important to me. [background creation of texture atlas] You want the mouse cursor in the texture atlas though, so that does not really work out. Also background generation is tricky business - what if some users jumps quickly through the menus and you need the atlas before you are ready. I'd rather not deal with these headaches. [hash on the atlas] You'd need to remember the hashes somewhere (in the lua file probably) and traverse all widelands data directories for all pictures and stat them on every game start - which is pretty slow already. Not as slow as building the cache, but probably ten seconds or so on a non Solid state disk. It would be an alternative to consider if the build_info() is too coarse grained. > I use an extra datadir folder which contains some special images and that i > use for testing purposes. What happens to the --datadir option when this get > merged? Could i further use it for testing images? Yes, but if you change an image, you'd need to manually run rm -rf ~/.widelands/cache, otherwise your new images would not be used. -- https://code.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/full_texture_atlas/+merge/281909 Your team Widelands Developers is requested to review the proposed merge of lp:~widelands-dev/widelands/full_texture_atlas into lp:widelands. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~widelands-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~widelands-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
