Isues seen during Zaric Zhakaron streams

[jayhova]

I had a crazy idea of a utility where you move the mouse to the corners of your mouse pad and the software calibrates to that. Like the early windows joystick calibrations.

[pango]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/396509332?t=02h19m28s fell off the world with Tedious Travel + snow
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/396509332?t=04h06m35s again at x25 acceleration
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/396509332?t=04h08m52s watching performance: 16% CPU for DFU (30% in use overall) 30% GPU 7 GB

I wonder if GPU Instanciation, already available as of Unity 2018.2.x, would lessen the drag of snow?

Also, I remember Zaric looking for a lake he saw over some hill during fast travel, and not finding it.
I think the issue was that some terrain was not generated yet, so he was seeing a piece of the sky box. I wonder if some texture could be used to plug such temporary holes in the ground...

[Interkarma]

I think the timescale compression causes the particle emitter to choke more than the rendering of particles. My feeling is to add some hooks to rain/snow so that Tedious Travel can shut down these emitters during high speed travel.

[pango]

That was a workaround that Zaric mentioned during the stream, too...

[pango]

Another mild issue with particles is that existing particles are not moved when coordinates are rebased, so for a short while they seem to disappear.
Under the right circumstances you can even see them fall... somewhere else...

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But I don't see any simple fix

[Hazelnut]

The links to twitch videos don't work for me. Do I need to sign up to twitch or something?

[pango]

Ah crap, I guess it has been removed
Some streamers keep their past videos for what looks like forever, some for a few weeks, looks like Zhakaron keeps most of his videos around for 2 months...

[Hazelnut]

He's got some that are 4+ months old, I was browsing trying to find em.

Well that's not helpful, doesn't he want us to finish it?

[pango]

Talking of this, I updated all the comments (we've been busy in the last 2 months it seems )

[pango]

Another mild issue with particles is that existing particles are not moved when coordinates are rebased, so for a short while they seem to disappear.
Under the right circumstances you can even see them fall... somewhere else...
distant snow.jpg
But I don't see any simple fix

I submitted a PR