Through my experience as a modeler and an inexperienced builder, I’ve come to know that triangles, unions, and parts all-cause lag however you’ll only need an overbearing amount of them to actually cause harmful lag to your game. This is where the problem comes in, a project we’ve been working on has only 1500+ parts however the game is laggier than the games with over 7000+ parts which just confuses me. So I’m wondering if there are more things that cause lag than just parts and triangles. Thank you for reading and please answer my question if you can.
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Just for extra context we do have scripts and a few terrain I seriously can’t tell if scripts can cause lag however I do know terrain can cause lag.
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Depending on your terrain size and the parts you have it could be anything from viruses to not anchoring stationary blocks. Look up the micro profiler and how to use it to determine where your lag is coming from. Heck just hit Ctrl+F6 and look around the map and watch the bar at the top to find lag spikes. then go from there. If you not scripting yourself and are using other people’s scripts and or anything off the free shop you could be infested with viruses. Run the game in test mode and go through your explorer ad look for scripts that shouldn’t be there… If your loaded to the gills with viruses Id recommend dumping all your scripts and moving over to another server once you get the lag to quit, if you can.
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How much of the game is terrain, union’s, or other laggy things that can understate a part count? lag really depends on the amount of these things which isn’t really specified, I recommend you make a copy of the game and try deleting some less-important aspects to the place and see how much lag changes. If said changes work without effecting gameplay, then you can transfer it to main game.
Definitely in my experience, the main cause of lag has been scripts. When I say this I mean constant loops or parts being replicated or created. These are definitely areas you’d need to take great caution in when making a smooth game. As far as building, like previously mentioned; unanchored parts is a big one, moving parts (that hit other moving parts or even stationary) and parts that are replicated on accident and without notice tend to add onto the load.
Another thing to keep in mind, viruses are a big reason for lag and they tend to come randomly at times. Some come from plugins with backdoors, others from free-models.
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Damn alr I never knew that kind of tool existed I’ll check it out thanks.
Ah alr I do have a bunch of unanchored dummys so…
Its easy to fix just remember to click on “workspace” in the explorer then hit the anchor button in model. that will anchor everything on the map. Just remember to un-anchor anything you dont want anchored.
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the owner and I’ve checked using the methods you said and we can’t find any lag spikes nor any viruses. However we did knew there were a bunch of unanchored dummies so we removed them, anchored everything, and deleted all the terrain we had yet still the performance didnt become as good as we thought it would be. I’m guessing its the script’s fault then thanks doe for helping!
No problem. Adding waits and debouncing to your scripts can help. WaitForChilds and looking for inf loops and fixing those as well. If your part count it high and you have a lot of scripts that can cause lag as well.
im currently trying to work out how to balance scripts on a 500kx500k map with 197k part count lol so I getcha
Damn alr, is the map gonna be playable later on?
Is the game insanely laggy or no? Because if it’s not then I’ll have some moral support in freely making as many assets as I want lol.
As i am more of a scripter, this could be a scripting issue with loops (while true do and repeat until loops.)