I have made some minor improvements to the item placement system, as well as some other minor improvements and bug fixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the most important improvement that I made was when I discovered a serious bug in the ground cover paging system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The system works by finding nearby terrain chunks and rendering any ground cover objects on those chunks, and hiding any ground cover objects not on those chunks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This system was always quite slow, but I assumed that this was due to the large number of ground cover objects that are being rendered (I am not using instancedmeshes yet, this is an optimisation that I will add later).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, while improving this system using the profiler, I noticed that the distance to each terrain chunk was always 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It turned out that there was a simple bug that was resulting in every single terrain chunk being scanned, instead of just the neighbouring ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was not rendering any more objects than necessary, since I had another check in the code for this, but by searching all chunks instead of just neighbouring ones I was effectively searching through tens of thousands more objects than needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This problem was solved relatively easily, once I figured out what was causing it, and the performance of the project has increased massively as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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