Friday 14 February 2014

Power Comes On - Power Goes Off

Work

Sorry for the intermittent and less than relevant blogging, it's pretty disconcerting to know your workplace can disappear at any moment :)  Made some progress speeding up the AI system, fixed some erroneous crashing on larger character levels and managed to track a memory leak directly connected to the DarkAI module.  The Memory Management Module (MMM) is currently underway thanks to Dave Ravey which means the smart money is for me to switch to QUAD rendering of distant instance objects to get some serious performance back. I can then return to memory issues on Monday with my new 'rough and ready' memory reporting tool and see where the leak is, plug it, and more importantly find out where 700MB is going for a blank level :)  Also progress being made with the 400 Reloaded ready models as part of your Gold Pledge so watch this space for news on that, and some nice progress in Construction Kit country (thanks to Simon), so despite the lack of electrons, we move ever forward. As a final note, I have also made contact with a few users who have been experiencing extreme problems with their larger levels, in an attempt to identify, isolate and correct the root cause of their pain. The next update WILL be good, watch this space!

6 comments:

  1. Hopefully there's no issues with not being able to start a test level, without the blackscreen and crash issue.

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  2. I thought quads were already in? Or were they taken out at some point? Or are you just speeding em up?

    Regarding the UPS idea, I knew a chap who had a standard one, and simply hooked up several car batteries to it. Lasted ages then :)

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  3. When you say you've corrected the AI, does that inclued something so they don't move around when I want them to stand ground and guard something?

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    1. I think he just fixed a memory leak, which you wouldn't notice as better AI, it just makes sure the AI isn't eating any memory it's not actually using :)

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  4. Haha, I know how you feel with the power... I've been without it for two days, it's just come back on -.-
    Good luck with everything Lee, I get the feeling Beta 1.6 is going to be the best release yet :D

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