Hey got a simple noob question can anyone help ?

DeadlyPeanut · Post by **DeadlyPeanut** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:05 pm

Hey just a simple question and i can't find the answer anywhere

Is it possible to change the size of the battle zone ? like when you are making an encounter , i see the height and width thing there both a 2048 it must be possible to change them but i can't find a way to. :/

thanks

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:13 pm

Move your mouse over the heigth and width counter and click the right mouse key. Then you can change the size, and switch between dimensions using enter.

DeadlyPeanut · Post by **DeadlyPeanut** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:07 am

bleh i knew it was something simple stupid me :/

Follow up question

My FPS goes to hell once i start making larger battles any settings i can change ? i don't think its my PC i got a pretty good machine. i don't really have a giant amount of ships either a few maybe 40-50 not sure if thats alot. even in the making once i add the ships nothing is fighting i get bad FPS then when i go to fight it its just annoyingly slow till you kill off the ships

Droid · Post by **Droid** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:17 am

40-50 is a lot.
Wait, no its not...it's a fuckton.

DeadlyPeanut · Post by **DeadlyPeanut** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:30 am

lol ok guess having big fights is outa the question

LactoseTolerant · Post by **LactoseTolerant** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:56 am

BSF's engine isn't the most spectacular, but it's damn good compared to other free games and engines. My laptop that can run EVE without qualms has trouble running a 20 ship battle.

Think of it as the "Crysis" of free games

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Raul · Post by **Raul** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:00 am

Well if you make very simple ships of 5-10 sections you can pull off a dozen or so, though it will still be lagtastic. Also not that it helps much but I noticed a significant decrease in speed when you have a ship selected, so pressing G to turn off the user interface speeds it up slightly.

Droid · Post by **Droid** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:09 pm

Well, you could have 40-50 single section, single weapon ships...probably.
You know, make the whole ship one sprite, give it one weapon (Preferably with slow RoF).

M123 · Post by **M123** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:52 pm

LactoseTolerant wrote:Think of it as the "Crysis" of free games .

Pfft, Crysis runs better than BSF, explosion-for-explosion.

thanto_ · Post by **thanto_** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:53 pm

Yes, but Crysis didn't use the GM engine.

AlphaDetisMegas · Post by **AlphaDetisMegas** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:13 pm

And if it did, there's some serious manipulation required to get it to run a 3d game so smooth.