hi all.
been toying with construct classic for a year now. made a few small simple games and decided to try something more ambitious.
im toying with the idea of making a top down shooter/adventure with somewhat large open levels. im going to use pretty low res pixel art, so to start, i think i havent much worry with the vram, but one thing thats worrying me though, is the object count on any level im going to make. with all the environment art, trees, river, enemies roaming around, structures, vehicles, im pretty scared that im going to end up with a bloated levels and performance issues.
simple question is:
how many objects is too much, basically?
just trying to get some perspective here, since i have a pretty powerful desktop pc, so its hard to tell if im going to make the game too demanding.
for example, is 3000 objects(not all unique) on a layout too ambitious?
or is that just pretty much normal figure for a level of any kind?
(i really dont know since all my games have been really simple with mostly levels being one screen in size)
ive done some tests with just spraying layout full of instances of a sprite, but its kinda hard to tell, since the editor itself starts to slow down, especially when you select a crapload of instances at once.ive had crashes before when doing that. im probably going to use as much of tiled backgrounds as i can, but still, could i get some advices about how to start making bigger maps? just some kind of numbers would serve as precious guidelines to start compiling the levels.
anyway, sorry if im not being too specific with this. its just that im on the verge of starting something rather time consuming, and unsure if im going to end up in a dead end with this,so i need to plan carefully with the performance in mind.
also to note, im not exactly aiming to make it for the low end laptops or pcs, but still, i dont want it to be resource hog like crysis either <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" />