May 7th, 2024 Livestream
Q&A: Does covering Belts and Pipes with Walls & Foundations improve FPS?
This question may have been asked previously at least 7 other times, as recently as November 2022 and as early as September 2020.
- November 29th, 2022 Livestream Q&A: Would adding the ability to add a cover on Belts help performance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UhSGB8cxAk
- March 1st, 2022 Livestream Q&A: Why don't you design as a little domes on the belts that shows much less objects? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8uJFq6qOvw
- February 16th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: Does obscuring belts actually help with performance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDJ5hvAkrWw
- November 3rd, 2020 Livestream Q&A: What about having covered Conveyors to help performance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbJGfDr5SLk
- October 27th, 2020 Livestream Q&A: Can you make it so we can use closed Conveyor Belts to help with Rendering? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdakqhC8Q4
- September 29th, 2020 Livestream Q&A: Enclosed Belts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLpv9B5-OjE
- September 22nd, 2020 Livestream Q&A: Would implementing covered belts reduce the number of objects in the world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R4MfLt_oMw
This question has 6 related videos
- September 26th, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Does it help FPS by hiding belts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25dPdZQ9ZIE
- May 23rd, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Have you tested UE4 saves on the UE5 build and seen any FPS improvements? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8T9C_hlo9s
- July 6th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: How do Belts affect performance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a2DgXuAy6I
- July 6th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: Why does the game render items & Belts hidden behind walls even when they're not visible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO1QT1SKsZA
- May 4th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: The flow rate issue in Pipes, is intended or will it be fixed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiAvo3uDBCM
- May 19th, 2020 Livestream Q&A: Any work on Occlusion Culling? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SauDZG88AFI
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Topics
- Features > Buildables > Conveyor Belts
- Features > Buildables > Foundations
- Technology > Graphics
- Features > Fluids > Pipes
- Features > Buildables > Walls
Transcript
does covering pipes and belts with walls and Foundations improve FPS performance, it's it's a hard one to answer but I don't think it does because, it's like if you're covering it up and you want to go with, occlusion calling then it's like yeah but we also need to run the system that checks whether it should do austion calling so like if it's faster to do Ren the if it's faster to render the pipes rather than like running the logic to check if it should render everything then it's like which one do I use like so there's no CL clear-cut answer on that question unfortunately it depends and it's really difficult to, give advice there just build however you want man