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Hi, I've spotted an interesting behavior regarding map update framerate, in the first gif is a default behavior. Why is the second gif map update practically real time? There are significantly more radars in that area, but after reading wiki radar logic it still stays unclear to mee.

Was you avatar closer to one of the locations?
Player presence might affect update frequency.

no it wasn't, it's all influenced by a radar density, but I wasn't able to find "how many radars, performance influence" and so, because I really like the real time updates

Note: notice the blue line in the second gif, this is all just radars

orzelek wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:28 pm

Was you avatar closer to one of the locations?

husnikadam wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:50 pm

no it wasn't

This seems exceedingly unlikely. What was the distance from your player to the two locations, and how did you measure that distance?

Watch please the following 30sec gif, there are firstly two attacks from the west with about 2 map updates per sec and then one big attack from the east with much faster update rate (just got small performance problems). A player is in the center.
Note: I use 10% pollution per biter cost, which causes huge attacks

The radar scans nearby sectors when they have consumed enough power, which is generally a double digit number of ticks

So more radars, it means this scanning update happens across more ticks, so its looks smoother

Klonan wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:42 am

So more radars, it means this scanning update happens across more ticks, so its looks smoother

So, can I make the mod with smooth scanning radars?

darkfrei wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:44 am

Klonan wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:42 am

So more radars, it means this scanning update happens across more ticks, so its looks smoother

So, can I make the mod with smooth scanning radars?

Sure

Interesting, thanks. Do you know if it may cause major performance issues? Like using more than a thousand of radars or so, if it's just a performance sinkhole or if is the smoothness worth it, as I said, I like it soooo much

Klonan wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:46 am

darkfrei wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:44 am

Klonan wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:42 am

So more radars, it means this scanning update happens across more ticks, so its looks smoother

So, can I make the mod with smooth scanning radars?

Sure

How about C++-solution with just radar_entity.smooth_near_scaning = true?

darkfrei wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:10 am

Klonan wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:46 am

darkfrei wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:44 am

Klonan wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:42 am

So more radars, it means this scanning update happens across more ticks, so its looks smoother

So, can I make the mod with smooth scanning radars?

Sure

How about C++-solution with just radar_entity.smooth_near_scaning = true?

Thats not really needed, just set energy_per_nearby_scan to 0