From every tick tests.

I left test 3 off because very inconsistent frame rates. Specially on CC.

lennaert, Thanks a lot! While I hope things will get smoother when Chrome 33 comes. That fog of war effect seems quite taxing at the moment. Also that map tile count could be problem for some machines.

It is not desired that you would need extremely up to date gaming machine to play a game that basically looks like Red alert 2 Still of course it is not possible to get that same performance, but at the moment it is not so excellent.

shinkan, It seems it would be very hard to draw that tilemap from a file.

—, Sadly that is out of scope Can you run some C2 game on that? Or well I get around 30 FPS on Firefox.

TwinTails, Thanks! That passing trough walls is because units wont recalculate their path finding when placing them. This is not feature of final game of course and wont be a problem. This would be a thing only when building structures.

shinkan, I will look into that. Thanks!

So a stress test with 200 units. Goal is to have something like 400 at least (total and not for one player). But for now this should be enough.

It would be very much appreciated if you could post some experiences from this. Specially from older machines. I have Intel Core i5-3570K, GeForce GTX 560 Ti TOP, 8GB RAM and running on Windows 7 ultimate.

On this machine using field of view and traffic control on 400 units FPS stays pretty much steady 60. Not so well on 500 or 600.

I get best results on Node-Webkit and Chrome.

UPDATE 2/21/2014

Hopefully some performance improvements

Controls:

Left mouse = select

Right mouse = move units

Arrows and screen edge = move camera

Middle mouse = add walls

For debugging:

F = toggle fog of far.

T = toggle "traffic control" bit more realistic movement

R = toggle animations. This was quite heavy performance hit before but it seems to be reasonable now.

Q = toggle Fullscreen scaling quality

Z = toggle Z order update

WEB TEST https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/104893773/RTS%20test/RTS%20web2/index.html

OR DOWNLOAD EXE https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/104893773/RTS%20test/RTS%20exe%20win32.zip

Animation preview:

In the editor, it would be nice if I could cick a button which previews my animation in the editor.

Prevents me from having to load my entire app to check the consistencie of the frames/origin points.

I work with lots of images, so my projects tend to take a bit before loaded.

If you right click your animation there is preview option.

shinkan, Thanks. I tested 16 but it was maybe a bit too few. Infantry should be ok with just 8. There would maybe be too many frames for any more. Just hopefully I don't have to start mirroring them then I would lose my shadows <img src="smileys/smiley19.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

shinkan, Ok thank. I think I could just put them separate sprites.

Here is one test I did a while ago.

Isometric RTS tank test

Test

move = left mouse

insert wall = right mouse

remove wall = middle mouse

insert target = T (mouse

shinkan, Main thing for me was basically that if there is one sprite with all animations or every separate unit sprite on the layout there would be basically no difference. The game should work even with every unit on the layout.

That 30-40 is quite rough estimate. I was planning to do most of the units from 2-3 sprites. For example a tank would basically be turret and base both with only one animation to 31 directions.

Ashley, I was messing with the blend modes for the effect that the light draws over player but not the background.

Is there another way to make that effect for Node-webkit.

shinkan, Nice Cannon fodder style game <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

lennaert, I usually like to have as few different sprites as possible. Maybe I could try to but them on same at first and if it causes any performance issues then make them individual.

Is there any difference really if I put all unit animations to same sprite or would it be better to make separate sprites memory wise?

Or could it cause some other issues. I was thinking around 30-40 units.