Hi all,
I'm playing with the limits of how many entities ioq3 will let persist at any given time and was wondering if anyone knows to what extent a faster graphics card or one with increased memory will allow for more onscreen entites at the same time, given code modifications to the MAX_ENTITIES value in tr_types.h.
Basically, for my q3osc mod (
https://cm-wiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Q3osc ) I'm allowing plasma and bfg bolts to persist indefinitely, allowing them to bounce off walls and using simple homing methods to allow them to track player positions.
In tr_types.h there is the definition of MAX_ENTITES at 1023 with a note saying this can't be increased without changing drawsurf bit packing (see below). However I boosted this up to 10230 just for fun and was able to render many more entities on screen (until an eventual upper-limit of increasing lag set in)
#define MAX_ENTITIES 1023 // can't be increased without changing drawsurf bit packing
I'm runninng an ATI Radeon X800 128MB card in Linux (Fedora 6) with open source drivers.
thanks
Rob
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Robert Hamilton
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Stanford University
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~robhttps://cm-wiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Q3osc
