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You'll be glad to know that this has been fixed for the next version of the game. Videos will now have their own volume slider in the settings. For some reason, Ren'py doesn't automate this, but it does provide helper functions to set up custom systems, which I've now done.
For those of you who have played the card game a bit, how is the performance? Is the animation smooth or stuttery for you? If the latter, what are your specs?
I spent a lot of time optimizing the game's code and writing efficient, custom caching to push the framerate as high as possible, but Supermodel's card game is extremely demanding for a Ren'py game. The deckbuilder is the worst offender with its myriad of cards visible at once, but the card game itself can also get demanding after a few turns. It's not a problem on my PC or tablet, but both of those are high-powered compared to what I suspect most players might be using. Nobody has ever mentioned the game's performance to me up to this point, which is why I now ask.
I'm also curious about performance when opening card packs, especially with multiple unncommon/rare/epic cards visible at once. The particle system I wrote for this is not what Ren'py was ever intended for, so it's enormously demanding compared to similar particle systems in more established 3D engines. That screen pushes the particles to the absolute limit of what I felt the engine could handle.
I spent a lot of time optimizing the game's code and writing efficient, custom caching to push the framerate as high as possible, but Supermodel's card game is extremely demanding for a Ren'py game. The deckbuilder is the worst offender with its myriad of cards visible at once, but the card game itself can also get demanding after a few turns. It's not a problem on my PC or tablet, but both of those are high-powered compared to what I suspect most players might be using. Nobody has ever mentioned the game's performance to me up to this point, which is why I now ask.
I'm also curious about performance when opening card packs, especially with multiple unncommon/rare/epic cards visible at once. The particle system I wrote for this is not what Ren'py was ever intended for, so it's enormously demanding compared to similar particle systems in more established 3D engines. That screen pushes the particles to the absolute limit of what I felt the engine could handle.
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I don’t think I have a powerful PC, but I haven’t encountered many issues.
The only problem I’ve noticed is some freezing when playing a card during the action phase or at the start of phases. Other than that, it runs smoothly for me so far.
I’ve also never had any issues in the Deck Builder.
Good to hear. What do you mean when you say "freezing?" That the game pauses for a few seconds or that it stutters? I have never seen anything like that when playing cards, so this is news to me.
There are a lot of calculations and math going on underneath the hood during those circumstances you mention, so it makes sense. Still, it's not where I expected to hear about slowdown.
Yes the game pauses for a few seconds but resumes normally after, doesn't happens everytime, only 4/5 times on the 12 games I played.
It could also be related to my hardware but as I said the game runs smoothly 90% of the time.