Performance friendly tile prototypes.

[yagaodirac]

TL;DR

We care performance more than the appearance of tiles.

What ?

Many tile prototypes contain a set of details which enhance the look when they are adjacent to some specific tile. This hurts the performance while doesn't help very much.
I suggest that you could make an option to turn off this detail. A tile should be it self purely, a sprite with a size of 32 by 32.
This option doesn't need to sync over internet. It's only about the graphics.

Why ?

Actually people tried to increase the performance. They modded or tested different structures in game. But I guess this detail takes more than it gives. Minutes ago, my friend asked me to make a mod which "locks all the useless chunks".
People go very far for the resources. They need only the interact-able things. They don't need the tiles. They don't often need the space.

[ssilk]

Misunderstanding:
- the appearance of a tile is calculated once: when placing
- the placement is not sent over the internet; only the tile position. The placement is calculated on each game itself.
- what takes power is, that the graphics uses memory in the graphic-card and that there are so much sprites to be painted for each frame.
- there are mods, that remove all ground-entities. The same could be done with tiles; no need for vanilla.

[bormand]

We care performance more than the appearance of tiles.

Press F4, check show-raw-tile-transitions. Hope it helps.

[yagaodirac]

We care performance more than the appearance of tiles.

Press F4, check show-raw-tile-transitions. Hope it helps.

OK, thanks. I didn't know this.