Update on my D game

[Ki Rill]

On Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 05:16:55 UTC, Kenny Shields wrote:
> On Friday, 20 January 2023 at 16:10:20 UTC, Ki Rill wrote:
> 
> Thanks for giving it a try! Sorry to hear it was slow on your 
> laptop, would you be willing to post the specs? If you're 
> running without a dedicated GPU then the performance likely 
> won't be great, especially if it's an older generation of 
> onboard graphics.

I have a gaming laptop: ASUS TUF F15. It's the first time I 
bought one and I'm not yet familiar with how the discrete 
graphics card should work. I guess, it should be almost the same 
as PC.


> One thing you could try is disabling "Soft Shadows" in the 
> settings menu. This feature was recently added and likely won't 
> perform well without a GPU as it uses a shader for smoothing 
> the edges of the shadows from light sources.
>

I tried running it on PC. Works smoothly. So, it's my laptop, but 
I have no clue why.


> I think I may just build a simple tutorial mode to acquaint the 
> player with the control scheme, especially since the W key 
> thing is a bit unorthodox. This way I would be able to display 
> a prompt on first launch asking if they want to do the 
> tutorial, and they'd be able to re-visit it too if they wanted.
>

A prompt is a good idea. That would make it a lot easier for 
first-time players.


> I update the project fairly frequently so be sure to give it a 
> follow if you have an itch account! Alternatively, you can 
> subscribe to the devlog RSS feed to get updates without an 
> account: 
> https://kenny-shields.itch.io/imperium-scenario-system/devlog.rss

I saved the link; will visit your blog from time to time.