Dev Diary #48 – Performance Havok

In this week’s dev diary, Julian takes you through a very cool and rather educational presentation about improving the performance of the game!

Alert: a lot of coder art is shown, so brace yourselves.
The Havoc Beam. The ultimate elemental spell combination, it’s super, it’s powerful, and it’s still in the works.
Julian talks about performance optimization. It is very important to us that the game runs as smoothly as possible, of course.
The terraforming now runs on a different CPU core. We’re getting a lot more frames per second now.
Our biggest level was a little crazy and unplayable at first. We used far too many and detailed colliders. We optimized them to find the sweet spot between collision detection and frame rate.
Performance was also improved with the creation of occlusion culling data. In other words, only objects that can be seen are rendered. Take a look, it is pretty cool seeing it work!