What kind of effect will PC have on performance?
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Posted on: 2009-07-16 17:53 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Honestly.. I doubt it. I'll speculate that the degree of customization being color tinting and limited animation changes, that we had all this data to begin with. The color and animations will be all that changes I believe.
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We already had the data. Just different lookup now.
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My guess is they've thought of this.
Personally, I think there will be a small hit to performance. Most of us probably won't notice it, but at some level they have to send a little more information per character.
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Will power customization have a noticeably negative effect on game performance? Now, when a player uses a power, the server tells the client "Guy X uses Power Y on Target Z." After PC, it'll be more like "Guy X uses Power Y with Colors A and B on Target Z." That's an increase in net traffic happening in the same amount of time.
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Power colors will be costume data, and all costume data is loaded as you encounter people's characters, it is a one-time load. The message from the server per activation will still be the same, it doesn't have to change it all.
As for extra work for the client, it will be inconsequential and the extra memory per character will be 30-50 bytes by my estimate, or up to 100 bytes by someone else's in another thread. Which is not meaningful on any system that can run this game.
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Isn't that more of a graphic/rendering thing though? If the colors are part of your costume than it's no more of a hit than what people with weapon customization bring to a raid now. The server tells my computer what you look like and that look just includes whatever kind of sword.
The powers were going to be used whether they were colored or not, so if it's just a costume piece there really isn't any extra info being passed along each time you fire a blast. Any new lag would be during the assembly of the raid as you first saw everyone's costumes.
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I'm wondering if it'll cause file size problems in existing MA arcs. Of course, there's no way to know whether enemies will get customizable power colors or not at the moment.
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What new Mechwarrior game? I thought they gave up on that IP.
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What new Mechwarrior game? I thought they gave up on that IP.
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Nope.
Will power customization have a noticeably negative effect on game performance? Now, when a player uses a power, the server tells the client "Guy X uses Power Y on Target Z." After PC, it'll be more like "Guy X uses Power Y with Colors A and B on Target Z." That's an increase in net traffic happening in the same amount of time. Furthermore, before, when using powers with baked-in colors, the client would just have to load and render Texture C, but with PC it'll have to load Texture C and Texture C's color mask Texture D and render it with colors A and B, and increase in graphical load. A small one perhaps, but will it be noticeable?
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