Optimize perfomance

[orsinium]

243k operations is waaaay above what Firefly Zero can pull off. Bring it down to 20k (at most!). Maybe tweaking the number of fireflies would do the trick.

I'm going to lower the max allowed fuel in the next release, so the game won't run there if it consumes way too much.

[ollej]

We'll look into it!

[orsinium]

I see that you always update the state for all fireflies. You can use a heavily simplified movement system for off-screen firefly. Or don't spawn off-screen fireflies at all! GTA 3 would de-spawn NPCs behind your back and it didn't stop them from selling millions of copies.

[ollej]

I tried rendering to a canvas in https://github.com/ollej/firefly-lampy/compare/draw-tiles-to-canvas?expand=1 but it turned out it was not supported.

[ollej]

I see that you always update the state for all fireflies. You can use a heavily simplified movement system for off-screen firefly. Or don't spawn off-screen fireflies at all! GTA 3 would de-spawn NPCs behind your back and it didn't stop them from selling millions of copies.

I tried only drawing fireflies on screen, but that didn't seem to change anything.

Wouldn't multiplayer become out of sync if they are not updating when off screen?

I'll at least skip the particle system if they are off screen.

[ollej]

When only rendering fireflies on screen, and only updating particle system for fireflies on screen I get down to 18K-20K on update. Will push a new release soon.

[orsinium]

Wouldn't multiplayer become out of sync if they are not updating when off screen?

right, the camera is player-dependent. you'd need then to track both cameras.