[Tutorial] Map Optimizations

[kenz3001]

i started on this almost a year ago but due to reasons out of my control (baby) i never got around to editing and uploading this series (its not 100% finished but will do for what needs to be done right now)

 

so this series is all about getting maps to a playable state for low end pc's

these are the steps i take to make my maps playable (some what)

1 . light and precomutatedvisability

 

 

 

 

[limsup]

Ooooh, very nice repair pad at 1:25 

[kenz3001]

was a skatty helipad i slapped together

[TK0104]

So I did this on Tomb but I noticed that all the shadows are gone, which is very annoying AND the GT's and crates were completely black

[kenz3001]

enable composite dynamic

 

and you may need to change some light / environment settings i go over this in a future vid (need to render and upload when i have time)

 

EDIT ... revert ALL the light environment settings back to default in the world properties

[Luhrian]

2 hours ago, TK0104 said:

So I did this on Tomb but I noticed that all the shadows are gone, which is very annoying AND the GT's and crates were completely black

Let's see

Same problem I have on CliffSide

Need to check this out tomorrow

[kenz3001]

Vid 2 is up

 

[TK0104]

9 hours ago, Luhrian said:

Let's see

Same problem I have on CliffSide

Need to check this out tomorrow

I noticed it's on all of the maps. There are shadows, but not high quality like with the domaint directional light

Edited August 12, 2017 by TK0104

[kenz3001]

as i said in the first vid you lose some feachers when converting lights there is always compromise in optimizing things

[Ruud033]

Don't forget to mention the gameplayprofiler at the end of your series.

[kenz3001]

mehhh i dont think thats needed as most of the community mappers arnt making there own assets

[Ruud033]

You also get a glimpse of what's causing the load stress in your level and thus you know what to tweak..

[kenz3001]

well i agree it can be very handy to find out what is killing fps in areas ... but what i show in these vids if applied to all the meshes, emitters, decals, ect mappers should get there maps to a very reasonable level of optimization the profiler is for very specific problems

i recorded all these vids before i had a baby to contend with and dont have alot of time / peace and quiet to set up and record more (but dont think there would be any point in others as i go though the most important stuff)

any way vid 3 is up

 

[kenz3001]

last one ...

 

 with all these vids you should be able to get some good fps in you custom maps

 

[Madkill40]

Much appreciated Kenz, thank you for doing all this.

[TK0104]

What's a gameplay profiler?

Edited August 15, 2017 by TK0104

[kenz3001]

The gameplay profiler is a tool that makes use of data captured during profiling sessions allowing you to dig deeper into gameplay code to analyze time spent performing functions. It is meant as a replacement for the Script Profiler.

 

well here is the link

https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/GameplayProfiler.html

 

but as i said its really on for custom assets code and fine tuning

[TK0104]

Ah okay. I don't think I need to use it because I don't have any problems and all