What are the best ways to optimize a Roblox game with a ton of parts?

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#1

For a Military Airfield i’m developing currently which uses high counts of parts over a large stretch of land I was wondering what other people use for optimization.

Currently the game runs 45-50fps on Maximum Graphics and two - three ticks for myself gets it on 60fps.

I have used methods like meshing the buildings, groups of trees, some scripts which make them invisible and non-collide.

Before I want to lower the tree count in the game I wanted to see if other people had any ideas for optimization that worked for them.

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If you have any ideas other ideas for me to try (Besides lowering the tree count because i’m probably already gonna do that) then I would be glad to hear.

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#2

i don’t know either but i read some of the user says that union the model you have made will low the fps of your game

#3

maybe some fog would help prevent the player from seeing too much of the map, which will help the fps.

#4

Already a step ahead of you. Still even with the fog it still renders the objects from what I seen on maximum graphics.

#5

do you have any lighting effects, and also is shadow map on?

#6

Si, I have lighting effects on and shadow map on.

#7

Press Shift+F2 (Ctrl+Shift+F2 in Studio) to pull up render info. Since you have ShadowMap enabled, a lot of shadows will be drawn in a map with lots of parts (this can be avoided by disabling CastShadow in your parts, but will take away from the ShadowMap effect). Turning your graphics down below 4 (i believe it’s 4, someone fact check that) disables detailed shadows, which is probably why you get 60 fps once you turn your graphics down.

#8

Unions would actually make it worse. Parts are better than unions. Unions are treated as meshes and take longer to load. Although it’s ok to use unions, in this case I don’t think it would be a good idea.

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#10

If your a scripter you can make a script that makes parts behind the fog start distance disappear client sided and if your a builder you can hire a scripter or something like that.