Hey, I have been working on otpimizing wargame for the beta release...Since I added the what I called "epic" stuff...
To be more precise, the epic stuff is just a bunch of bullet whizzle sounds, cool explosion sounds, AND ! Great smoke particles ! Wherever the player or any other NPC shoots, it popups some smoke particles, and it just looks great, because they are additive, which means they blend together, so basically by shooting various time at one place, you get lost in a smoke fog...
After I incremented this, I got some FPS loss, so I tried to compensate it by optimizing...
Now, the particles only get created near the player, and not where the player cannot see, its a huge optimization which took me quite some time, but it works, and the FPS is better than before...
I have also extracted every single sound in the game (over 100) and converted them to Ogg Vorbis format, which is the best sound file format if you ask me...The game passed from 114 mbs to 70 mbs as compressed runtime, and 50 mbs as an installer, which is more than 50% of original size ! Yeeha !
When I compress the installer as an SFX, I win 10 extra mb, so the file you guys will download should weight about 46 mbs... Is that too much, or should I keep optimizing stuff??
I have been deleting unnecessary graphics, particles and other stuff, the game is now quite optimized and officialy set to Alpha state...
After some hard Alpha testing and final bug fixing, I will release the beta version n 0.7 on July 7...
That's a lot of 7, good it's my lucky number !
I hope you people are up for this...Because personally, I think this game is getting awesome, for my first game, done in one month...
I guess we'll see the feedback once it's released!
Stay tuned for July 7, its in 5 days !
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