[feedback] fake 3d engine, or how to trick flash to do things faster

hi folks,

i've written the engine some time ago for an action game, but dropped it as soon as i discovered that it would be *way* to slow to handle the number of objects i had in mind.

... but last week i started a major rewriting (and optimizing) session.

and this is the result:

sorry modem users, i had no time to optimize the texture files ... so its 2mb in size)
Engine v.98

the engine itself is currently 14k in size [:|]

move robby with cursor keys
rotate view with shift/click/drag (left / right)
move view with click/drag
scale view with control/click/drag

i just found a minor bug in the depth-sorting routine ... so ignore that.

oh yes, please post some specs (machine, browser, fps and maybe the rendertime in ms (lower left corner))

cheers and thanks, nGFX

Well thats pritty awsome :) by depth problems do you mean when you scale? caz all the depths mess up when you do.

I get 26-27 fps on

1.5 GHz Pentium M

512 ram

Get collision working and that could be very very sweet.

Ali

Gosh darn it, I hate you... Its fantastic

Highest FPS: 25, Lowest: 23, Average: 24
Highest MS: 9, Lowest: 4, Average: 5-6

Running Firefox, so it is much slower than IE.

3Ghz P4, 1Gb 3200 Rammage

Wow, that engine is pretty impresive :)

Got an fps of 24 when I was rotating at highspeed...
2.8ghz, 1Gig DDR

:yikes:

Highest FPS: 29, Lowest: 18 but it was usually around 25 or so.

Found the same as Iopred, Firefox is slower.

Cowcomputer..er..Gateway with Pentium 4, 2.99 GHz, 512 MB of RAM

So damn nice! Good job :)

Runs around 16-20 fps and 12 MS

800 Mhz, 384 SDR, Mozilla 1.7.1 (yes my computer is crap :P, but your game runs pretty smooth on it)

Good luck, I would like to see the engine when collisions are working. So show us again when its done!

sweet stuff mate,
it already was nice when you showd me recently,but well,with the bigger map and the houses its just so much better (and did you tweak on performance some more? running even faster now :D )
25-27 fps all the time, biggest drop to 22 fps one or two times but only for a split sec.
1.67 gHz 768 mb (ddr) ram,
officepc,5 other apps running (one of them is eclipse,which is normally a performance bogger ;) )
keep it up =)

Wow - runs smoohly on my antique computer (when i say antique, i mean: takes 12 minutes to load it up...not joking!) - havent tested it on my new computer, but i can only assume it would be amazingly smooth. Very well done!

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Originally Posted by alillm

by depth problems do you mean when you scale? caz all the depths mess up when you do.

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not exactly, theres just a minor problem when sorting the depth of the displayed faces - what should be behind another face is infront of it.

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Originally Posted by iopred

Gosh darn it, I hate you... Its fantastic

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:hug: i'm unworthy.
thanks.

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Originally Posted by thehumanchimp

i mean: takes 12 minutes to load it up...not joking!)

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eek. i told you the texturefile is huge ...

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Originally Posted by superjoep

Good luck, I would like to see the engine when collisions are working. So show us again when its done!

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basically collisions are already handled, but for this demo i just threw together what i could find and added an onEnterframe for the movement.

the engine itself will be featured in some of my next/previous games (on that is secret atm, crystalis (the new engine has so many more possibilities than the plain iso view))

oh, and did i mention that it handles slopes, too? :)

thanks again for the feedback,
nGFX

ps: more regular updates/infos will be posted on the sN blog (like the editor for "scenes")

"eek. i told you the texturefile is huge ..."

No, it didnt take that long to load the file as i have broadband - what i meant was it takes 12 minutes from the time i switch on my computer, to the time it is ready to be used.

:o

2ghz PC, 25 fps

Wow, loving that blue!

Squize.

PS. Footy game has gone gold, 2nd day in a row ;) , so proper email coming up mate.

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Originally Posted by thehumanchimp

"eek. i told you the texturefile is huge ..."

No, it didnt take that long to load the file as i have broadband - what i meant was it takes 12 minutes from the time i switch on my computer, to the time it is ready to be used.

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ouch. win 98 then?

nGFX

ps: squize, babe. is *that* propper feedback? no fps, no machine or browser ...
i forgive you this time ...

1.8 Ghz, explorer, average fps 26

looks pretty good so far, you going to build a mini tank race game with this engine? could be fun, especially with guns :)

win ME infact ... I think the processor got a bit screwed up when i tried replacing the battery thingy with another one from another computer ... :(

Ignore this post....

Cool engine!

I'm really impressed by the frame rate, especially considering the game screen size. My fps was ~18 (AMD 1400, IE6)

Amazing!

I got an average of about 3 fps, a minimum of 2 fps, and a maximum of 5 fps. The render time was about 18 to 20 ms on average,

Very impressive stuff. Fast enough for me (I have low standards). It barely lagged, even when rotating and scaling. Any idea what you might use it for? And what are you going to do about collision?

My computer is a 450 Mhz (ouch) iMac (double ouch) G3 (triple ouch).

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Amazing!

I got an average of about 3 fps, a minimum of 2 fps, and a maximum of 5 fps. The render time was about 18 to 20 ms on average,

Very impressive stuff. Fast enough for me (I have low standards). It barely lagged, even when rotating and scaling. Any idea what you might use it for? And what are you going to do about collision?

My computer is a 450 Mhz (ouch) iMac (double ouch) G3 (triple ouch).

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Huh... how can you have an fps of 3 and not find it laggy? :yikes: