Images cause a lot of lag

[Gman4pwnu]

Some people use images for effects, like weather, and particle effects, but it seems a lot of images cause lag, is there any way you could make lots of images less laggy stefan?

[Ajira]

It's not the images themselves that cause the lag, it's the amount of light effects used.

[Gman4pwnu]

Is there any way stefan could optimise code to allow for better particle systems? Id really love to release a weather system that can use much more images without the lag.

[Kaimetsu]

How many drops of rain do you need, man?

[Gman4pwnu]

Its more about the fog kai. The rain only needs like 50 to look decent. Its also more about the spell effects.

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by Gman4pwnu

Its more about the fog kai

I don't think you need so many images to make reasonable fog.

Its also more about the spell effects.

I've never had any problems. I suggest that you code more efficiently.

[Polo]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

I don't think you need so many images to make reasonable fog.

Indeed, the Classic/Elysium fog is using only like 8 images I think but it looks pretty awesome.

[HoudiniMan]

Use bigger fog images.

Pjotoshop > Filters > Render > Clouds.

Apply light effects.

Voila!

[Admins]

Yes it's sometimes possible to use tricks to be able to use less images and less scripting to gain the same effect. The next Graal version will also have a particle engine. That will not reduce the amount of images, but the calculation of the position will be much faster than when done by script.