Yeah it's been annoying me too.
This is the result of holding shift while holding the wallpaper tool (wall preview), so yes it's original game speed.
[ARCHIVE] SimAntics & World Development
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xXJDrocks450Xx
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SimAntics is really stable right now, atleast for me. I just made a house and furnished it, (except for wallpaper and floors.) Game hasn't crashed yet! Awesome work Rhys.
New build is out, featuring the wallpapering tool. All shortcuts are working fine here (shift to fill the room, ctrl to remove wallpaper), so it's easy to apply wallpaper to any wall shape. Most of the Wallpapers don't have BMP icons, so to check what they are you'll have to select them and hover over a wall.
Next up is fixing those icons and floors. I went a bit overkill on the example above, and we don't even have floors yet! Try not to sink too much time into your lots, since there's no saving yet.
Next up is fixing those icons and floors. I went a bit overkill on the example above, and we don't even have floors yet! Try not to sink too much time into your lots, since there's no saving yet.
xXJDrocks450Xx
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Thats GREAT!
I can finally turn off edge scrolling!
xXJDrocks450Xx
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Also I found a few bugs you may not be aware about. Just a couple of wall papers that when placed onto a wall, make the wall invisible.
Also sleeping is still kind of unstable. Bob started getting into bed on the wrong side, then the game crashed.
Whoops - forgot a few wall style checks in the painting code. Can't really leave something like this unchecked... You can also place wall items on fences too, which I should probably get around to fixing.
I'm aware of the first. I'm not sure if they're just invalid walls or if I'm pinging the wrong place when I'm getting the wall graphic.
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francot514
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Also there keyboard arrows should be able to allow scrolling.Rhys said:
Rhys said:
Ey Rhys, thats a good point, you saying there is no online saving or blueprint exporting?? If you want i can try work on exporting today...
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So the memory situation is getting a little bad. As you may have noticed, the game loads 200MB of content on load, and most of this is wall data:
(floor data is like, 20?)
The wall and floor data is a bit special right now in that we actually load all of it, and as you can see from the patterns list, there are a lot of them. This is actually our biggest memory sink right now, hands down.
So how do we fix this? The walls and floors are loaded both from two global iff files and a collection of iff files inside a far archive. The problem is loading these iff files without loading the entire far archive, which is something the objects already do with FAR1Provider, but hasn't yet been ported to the walls. This is because we don't store any packing slips storing information on where what wall lies, so we can't really point from a "wall id" to a far archive and .wll filename. The million dollar question is, do we generate more packing slips for walls and floors, and get them (with catalog strings, icon) when needed? Or generate it at runtime? I'll probably go with the packing slip solution, which means seeing what Mr. Shipper actually does.
As for removing unused walls/object resources from the cache, we'll probably do some form of garbage collection every minute or so that gets all resources present on the lot, and purges those that aren't from the cache entirely (using Texture2D.Dispose where it is applicable, a lack of this is crashing the game on my system) so that we get a relatively low memory footprint. It can never be as low as the original game, because we're doing a lot of hardware rendering so we can't render SPR2 directly, want to keep all of an object loaded for performance reasons, etc. I'm pretty sure that I can get it to around 300MB hard maximum though.
I'll probably start work on all this after I've rewritten floor components to be more friendly to purely visual changes, and written the floor tool. There will be many actual performance improvements for rendering everything too, but these will likely come later.
(floor data is like, 20?)
The wall and floor data is a bit special right now in that we actually load all of it, and as you can see from the patterns list, there are a lot of them. This is actually our biggest memory sink right now, hands down.
So how do we fix this? The walls and floors are loaded both from two global iff files and a collection of iff files inside a far archive. The problem is loading these iff files without loading the entire far archive, which is something the objects already do with FAR1Provider, but hasn't yet been ported to the walls. This is because we don't store any packing slips storing information on where what wall lies, so we can't really point from a "wall id" to a far archive and .wll filename. The million dollar question is, do we generate more packing slips for walls and floors, and get them (with catalog strings, icon) when needed? Or generate it at runtime? I'll probably go with the packing slip solution, which means seeing what Mr. Shipper actually does.
As for removing unused walls/object resources from the cache, we'll probably do some form of garbage collection every minute or so that gets all resources present on the lot, and purges those that aren't from the cache entirely (using Texture2D.Dispose where it is applicable, a lack of this is crashing the game on my system) so that we get a relatively low memory footprint. It can never be as low as the original game, because we're doing a lot of hardware rendering so we can't render SPR2 directly, want to keep all of an object loaded for performance reasons, etc. I'm pretty sure that I can get it to around 300MB hard maximum though.
I'll probably start work on all this after I've rewritten floor components to be more friendly to purely visual changes, and written the floor tool. There will be many actual performance improvements for rendering everything too, but these will likely come later.
Gabriel_L_Ferraz
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Where can I get the latest version?
Click here, login as guest and click "Artifacts" on the "build-mode" branch. Should let you download a zip with the latest changes.
This link is always in my signature, for future reference.
This link is always in my signature, for future reference.
Gabriel_L_Ferraz
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Thank You!
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