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Support => Other Packages => Topic started by: Disastercake on December 15, 2015, 09:50:39 PM

Title: Tasharen Water - How do you optimize for integrated cards and mobile devices?
Post by: Disastercake on December 15, 2015, 09:50:39 PM

I've discovered that the Tasharen Water system is sucking up a lot of resources on integrated graphics cards on Medium.  Specifically it's dropping from 140FPS to 15FPS.  Unfortunately, medium is as low as Tasharen Water can really go before it starts to look very bad.

Is there anything I could change in the shader to make it more optimized for mobile?  Maybe by removing the reflections?  Most importantly I'd really like to keep the shore foam, since that's what really makes the water look nice.

Title: Re: Tasharen Water - How do you optimize for integrated cards and mobile devices?
Post by: ArenMook on December 16, 2015, 03:11:34 AM

I'm guessing that's due to fillrate, but 15 FPS seems absurdly low. I get 30+ FPS in Windward with the water on Medium on the NVidia Shield tablet -- and that's just playing the game (ie with everything else running).

I don't remember which version I have on the Asset Store but one of the additions I did in Windward for the water was adding pre-generated heightmap support which is then used to determine where the water should be transparent and where foam should be. This makes it look great even on lowest quality (as it's no longer a simple semi-transparent plane), and much faster as it doesn't involve rendering depth every frame.

If you send me your OR# (to support [at] tasharen.com) I can package up that version for you.

Title: Re: Tasharen Water - How do you optimize for integrated cards and mobile devices?
Post by: Disastercake on December 20, 2015, 05:18:11 PM

Thanks for the offer, Aren.  I'd love to take a look at the more optimized package.  I've sent you an e-mail about 5 days ago.  Please let me know if you got it.

Title: Re: Tasharen Water - How do you optimize for integrated cards and mobile devices?
Post by: ArenMook on December 23, 2015, 09:46:28 AM

Hmm no, I didn't get anything... where did you send it?

Title: Re: Tasharen Water - How do you optimize for integrated cards and mobile devices?
Post by: Disastercake on December 23, 2015, 05:06:00 PM

I sent to to support@tasharen.com.  Is that still a valid address?

Title: Re: Tasharen Water - How do you optimize for integrated cards and mobile devices?
Post by: ArenMook on December 24, 2015, 01:21:22 PM

Yes but I haven't received any requests there. You can try PMing here instead.