WIP Making use of different grass types

[ANSEL]

I must admit I confused about performance these days

 

[Pieter Boelen]

There have been a lot of things influencing performance lately.
I'm not entirely convinced the grass ever had anything to do with it.
Seems a bit unlikely to me....

 

[Hylie Pistof]

@ANSEL Try this and run POTC to see what your loads are. Task manager shows me that it is hardly using any memory, the one CPU core that POTC uses is nearly saturated with just one small ship sailing along, and MSI Afterburner shows the video card is just loafing along at just above idle speeds. This is with Reshade running.

 

[ANSEL]

@ANSEL Try this and run POTC

I have to run windowsmode then or? I dont quite know how to handle it, cant see task manager running potc.

 

[ANSEL]

Whit that junglesprites file, it looks like Hemp all over the place

 

[ANSEL]

This is Algae or Sea grass, a little interesting I think.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That jungle stuff is epic!

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I turn on Task Manager and Afterburner then to take a screenie I turn on Paint shop Pro. That sets it up. Then I play POTC for a few minutes of sailing in 1Xtime. Quit and take a screenie of the desktop. Maybe Paint can take a desktop screenie too but I can not even find it.

Bonsai trees! If they were about three times that size they could be used in certain places as intermediate foliage.

 

[ANSEL]

@ANSEL Try this and run POTC to see what your loads are

Something like this? I have more options to the right but I am unsure what number to turn on.
PS. I know nothing about afterburners.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

MSI Afterburner is a free utility that shows how hard your video card is working. In this screenie of Bioshock Infinite with a 280X it shows that the video card is pegged. It is running 100% and is what is bottlenecking the system. So I bought a 290X..........and it is STILL pegged.


Anyway, looking at your charts it seems that your ram and cpu are fine with lots of room for more loads. So it looks like you will be wanting a new video card as that is your bottleneck.

 

[ANSEL]

I like these Algea grass, I will use it for a while, its god for my eyes.
@Hylie Pistof . About the graphic card, I bought it January this year,
its to early to buy a new one I think ( my wife will agree with that)

 

[Jack Rackham]

I like a lot of what I see here of different grass types. Variation is always good.
But we can't add a new line for each location.
Must be done in some more general way like all shores get.. and the jungles get..
Like using the existing (sound) "type" or something?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

But we can't add a new line for each location.
Must be done in some more general way like all shores get.. and the jungles get..
Like using the existing (sound) "type" or something?

I think it should be possible to use the location type, yes.

 

[Nightmare]

I like these Algea grass, I will use it for a while, its god for my eyes.
@Hylie Pistof . About the graphic card, I bought it January this year,
its to early to buy a new one I think ( my wife will agree with that)

Can you please send a file for that grass texture please

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Or better yet: Can somebody upload ALL those grass types?
I'd like to add them all to the "grass" folder and then we can see what to use where.

 

[pedrwyth]

Or better yet: Can somebody upload ALL those grass types?
I'd like to add them all to the "grass" folder and then we can see what to use where.

Your wish is .... acted upon

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Thank you!

Spoiler

^ Portrait of @pedrwyth

I'm adding all of them for the coming update; then you guys can pick and choose.

 

[Levis]

I like a lot of what I see here of different grass types. Variation is always good.
But we can't add a new line for each location.
Must be done in some more general way like all shores get.. and the jungles get..
Like using the existing (sound) "type" or something?

But if we want to create some diversity between jungles also it's harder. For example we could store which grass to use for different location types in the islands... So the jungle on one island is slightly different from the other one.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

But if we want to create some diversity between jungles also it's harder. For example we could store which grass to use for different location types in the islands... So the jungle on one island is slightly different from the other one.

As I figure it: If NO special grass is defined for a location, then use the default for that location type.
But if a special grass IS defined, then use that instead.
So then we can have a "general jungle grass" but set custom grass on specific islands.

Alternatively, have an island.grasstexture defined in islands_init specifically for jungles.
I think jungles are the only locations where we would really want a difference for the same location type.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

A whole bunch of new grass textures have been added in this update: Mod Release - Build 14 Beta 4 Internal WIP For Testing | Page 6 | PiratesAhoy!
But for now, only Kralendijk Port actually makes use of a custom grass texture.