I have completely redone my interior mapping system.
Performance Boost
The system now performs a lot better under stress; it can now easily perform well in a city packed with windows. I haven’t done any precise checks, but it runs buttery smooth with ~800 windows with room for a lot more.
Accurately Fakes 3d Space
I cleaned up ugly math and the windows now accurately fake 3d space (as well as it can given a 2d image to work with)
(Sorry if any of the videos have poor quality, I had to compress them)
The left room is where the screenshot was taken, the right room is the system trying to make it 3d again.
Mass Use Test:
There’s a total of 809 windows in the place, and 480 windows of that across the 6 buildings in this test (Only could show 3 due to video file size).
Spinning Windows Test:
3 window each spinning on a different axis
Final Thoughts & Future
The next thing I plan on working on is trying to get this to work on Textures instead of SurfaceGui’s as I think it may help with performance. I already have a somewhat working prototype but nothing worth showing yet.
Let me know what you think about this! I originally was not going to open source it until I finished a project I was working on, but I may change my mind because I’m excited to see how people use this in their games. Expect more soon (no promises).
I could totally see myself use this to preview inside building before player could get in I really do appreciate you take mass production in mind too since whatever I do I always worry about performance
Do you plan to open source this? I can see my self using this in many situations. Especially buildings that players wont be able to enter. Having windows where you can see actual and pretty convincing 3D rooms in a building rather than a solid colour is really useful.
Yes I do plan to. I was originally going to wait a bit since I’m using this in a game and wanted to wait until the game was finished, but I changed my mind and will release it sooner after I polish it a bit more.
Due to limitations with Roblox, the only way to make a cubemap for this would be to use viewport frames which would look better, but would be a lot worse for performance.
The interiors are actually just an image looking into the room, like this:
Hi! I was wondering how this project is coming along, and if you’ve figured out the more performant option you were attempting. I’d love to use this but I’m not sure if it’s still in development?
Side note - I wish Roblox would just add parallax already so we could create these windows.
