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Still a few glitches in 1.7 to iron out. Apparently, fences drop frame rates like they're hot, and ~50,000 of them in one spot (my park) makes a black hole where all frames per second will be sucked in. So, some tests were done to calculate FPS with different blocks.
The idea honestly hurt me. I took the time to place every single one of those fucking fences while straddling what felt like the short edge of a sheet of paper, and if my idea for an old-school wooden rollercoaster is not going to work, what could the majicks gods do that would fix that? Well, you'd be surprised: Given, not the initial plan, but fuck if the glass isn't nice. I only wish I would've thought of it first. So it goes. Last edited by 709 : 2013-12-21 at 00:33. |
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...that this would be the result. I'm glad you're cool with the shiny new glass look, though! It's still not smooooth for me, but performance is at least better than when it was all fences. Hopefully it's a little better for others who, like me, are also playing on a few years old hardware. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Huh. I wonder if it's just a fence problem then, since there's still plenty of the nether version making up the ferris wheel.
It can't be a "big build" thing, otherwise those people who rebuild entire areas (the Game of Thrones community build comes to mind) would just be in pain all the time. Maybe they ban certain blocks? So it goes. |
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I may be an awful human for suggesting this, but would it be worth checking to see how stained glass would look? It looks awesome with the clear glass, but I'm wondering if it may look closer to the original intended design with brown stained glass or something like that. Just pondering.
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How about a mural of a topless Jennifer Aniston?
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I found that I'm not the first to point out this issue, and one redditor (in response to Vechs' tweet) had generated the following images a year ago to further illustrate: These are massive blocks of stone, fence, and iron bars. To get the second image, he issued a command to render faces with only polygon edges. This shows how much is actually being rendered. See how the block of opaque solids has all but the front and side faces culled? That's because their geometry is ridiculously simple and all the interior touching faces and backfaces go away. The block of fences is not nearly so lucky because a significantly larger proportion of faces cannot be culled. The iron bars are also bad for the same reason but not as bad because an iron bars block has fewer faces to start with. This is why when we tested last night, replacing with opaque solid blocks (cobblestone) doubled the frame rate for me and Elysium; our GPUs had less to work and could render more frames per second. There are a couple of things here. First, these builds probably aren't made up largely of high-poly blocks like the fence. Second, some of the youtubers who work on and record those "big builds" in Minecraft do so either professionally (Yogscast makes enough YouTube ad money to employ a staff of a dozen people, for example) or are already serious gaming enthusiasts. They almost certainly have beefy hardware and expensive GPUs in their rigs to allow them a lot more leeway. If my GPU was better than a mid-range one from three years ago, I also probably wouldn't notice the frame drop. It would still happen, but I'd be cruising so high over 60 FPS that it wouldn't be visible. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Yes it is obvious that increasing the number of faces needing to be rendered has long been a problem. Remember the signs and the incumbent frame rate drop with the BP mob farm v3 or was it v4... Same problem, just far far worse...
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This talk about performance makes me think that I need to go and wipe out my underground tunnel mines which use this basic design:
Now that I think of it, that technique exposes a lot of faces when you have a lot of long branches (which I do). The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Um… I have a ton of those below my house. Maybe that's part of the problem as well? |
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Hey, my "clear crop" mining style is paying off for me then. I just take everything out then I mine. Not fast, but better for my system it seems.
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You posted a Vetches tweet! <3 Vetches (mostly for his evil in his map creation). The amount of things I've learned about the mechanics of the game from watching both him and several of the FTB crew play is enormous.
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So on the note of things rendering and killing the GPU, what about things that aren't visible? Like my chicken coop. What if I move it blow ground (which I'm already going to do) so it's not visible at all? Would those be part of the GPU workload since they are not visible.
Same applies for fence behind stone, etc. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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No turtle... Unfortuately, minecraft renders all front faces, which means merely moving things behind blocks or underground does nothing for performance.
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Ok, I get the picture now. The stone blocks "meld into one block" where the other stuff doesn't. Makes sense to me now. Thanks.
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It's not block type specific though -- basically anything that is next to an air block and in your line of sight whether behind a block or not is rendered. This is why if you do use an x-ray texture that you can see mobs and tunnels below ground. This has nothing to do with the texture pack, the same mobs and tunnels are being rendered with a normal texture pack, it's just that you cannot see them.
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Even better explanation, thanks. I got it now.
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That makes sense. Sometimes, the near-surfaces don't all render in, and you can "see through them" into the depths. I always wondered why I could see lava and caverns deep below the ocean while swimming along. :/
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